Editing Test card (section)

==List of TV test cards==
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F007447-0011, Nürnberg, Firma Grundig.jpg|thumb|A newly built television set undergoing image calibration using a test card at a [[Grundig]] factory in Nuremberg, West Germany (December 1959)]]
[[File:Illuminated test pattern at the Early Television Museum June 2022.jpg|thumb|A 1940s-style "bullseye" test pattern exhibited at the [[Early Television Museum]] in Hilliard, Ohio (June 2022)]]
* [[List of BBC test cards|BBC Tuning Signals and Test Cards]] [[List of BBC test cards#Test Card A|A]], [[List of BBC test cards#Test Card B|B]], [[List of BBC test cards#Test Card C|C]], [[List of BBC test cards#Test Card D|D]], [[List of BBC test cards#Test Card E (later Test Card C)|E]], [[Test Card F|F]], [[Test Card G|G]], [[Test Card H|H]], [[Test Card J|J]], [[Test Card W|W]], [[Test Card X|X]] (1934–2006, [[Mechanical television|Mechanical 30- and 240-lines]], [[Monochrome]], PAL, SDTV, HDTV, [[405-line television system|405]]- and [[625 lines|625-lines]])
* [[RCA Victor]] monochrome test pattern (with RCA logos and [[Nipper|Nipper the dog]] illustrations at corners; c. 1933/34<ref>{{cite web | url=https://framemaster.tripod.com/oldindex.html | title=The Early History of Television Through Visual Images! }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://eyesofageneration.com/rcas-first-iconoscope-cameras-the-prototype/ | title=RCA'S FIRST ICONOSCOPE CAMERAS & THE PROTOTYPE | date=11 June 2021 }}</ref>–1937,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_field_trls.html | title=RCA's Television Field Trials }}</ref> [[343-line television system|343-lines]])
* [[RCA]]/[[NBC]] monochrome test patterns #1 and #2 (1938<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/1938-July-ELECTRONICS-Test-Pattern.JPG | title=RCA / NBC test pattern #1 - Newly established 441-line system (up from the 343-lines of 1936) }}</ref>–39,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://davidsarnoff.tcnj.edu/2017/06/02/item-of-the-week-indian-head-test-card/ | title=Item of the Week: Indian-Head Test Card |website=The College of New Jersey}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/1938-RCA-Test-Pattern.jpg | title=1938 December - RCA / NBC Test Pattern #2 }}</ref> [[441-line television system|441-lines]])
* RCA [[Indian-head test pattern]] (1939, [[525 lines|525-lines]])
* [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[CBS]]/[[Crosley Broadcasting Corporation|Crosley-Avco]]/[[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]]/NBC monochrome "bullseye" test patterns (c. 1939–47,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/around_world.html|title=Television Graphics Around the World|website=www.meldrum.co.uk}}</ref> 525-lines)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=252977 |title=Test pattern? - Videokarma.org TV - Video - Vintage Television & Radio Forums |publisher=Videokarma.org |date= |access-date=2022-07-24}}</ref>
* [[Electronic Industries Alliance|RMA]] 1946 resolution chart (1946, 525- and 625-lines)
* [[Marconi Company|Marconi]] Resolution Chart No. 1<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://marconiintelevision.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/84534910/Test%20Charts%20-%201962.pdf | title=Test Charts | website=marconiintelevision.pbworks.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.polyu.edu.hk/proj/gef/index.php/glossary/marconi-resolution-chart/ | title=Marconi Resolution Chart – Geospatial Education Platform | date=17 January 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.oocities.org/wenlockb/icdx/pye_factory_tv.html | title=Pye factory test broadcasts }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.izabella.tk/html/video_.html | title=Video Basics | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003100624/https://www.izabella.tk/html/video_.html | archive-date=2023-10-03}}</ref>/[[Teledyne e2v|English Electric Valve Company]] Test Chart<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1970 |title=EEV Test Chart for CCTV Cameras |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-AUSTRALIA/IDX/Archive-Electronics-Australia-IDX/IDX/70s/Electronics-Australia-1970-12-OCR-Page-0057.pdf |journal=Electronics Australia |issue=12 |page=57}}</ref> (c. 1947/c. 1970, 525- and 625-lines)
* [[:File:Tv.resolution.chart.0249.svg|ТИТ-0249]], ИТ-72<ref>{{cite web|url=https://engenegr.ru/gost-20466-75|title=ГОСТ 20466-75 - Таблица телевизионная испытательная универсальная ИТ-72. Диапозитивы. Общие технические условия|website=engenegr.ru}}</ref> and таблица 0286<ref>{{cite web|url=https://allgosts.ru/33/160/gost_28459-90|title=ГОСТ 28459-90 Таблица телевизионная испытательная универсальная 0286. Общие технические требования|website=allgosts.ru}}</ref> monochrome test cards (1949, c. 1975–78, c. 1990–92, used in [[Soviet Union]] and Russia)
* DuMont Industrial Color Television test pattern (1950, experimentally shown on KE2XDR)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.earlytelevision.org/dumont_industrial_color.html | title=DuMont Industrial Color System }}</ref>
* DFF ([[Deutscher Fernsehfunk]]) monochrome ([[:File:DFF Q1 TB.jpg|Q1/QI1]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=DDR Fernsehen Normenumstellung von OIRT auf CCIR |url=https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/ddr_fernsehen_normenumstellung_von_oirt_auf_ccir.html |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=www.radiomuseum.org}}</ref> Test nr. 04, [[:File:DFFMonochrome.jpg|modified EBU monochrome]]) and colour ([[:File:DFFColour.jpg|modified HTV TR.0782]]) test patterns (1952–1991, SECAM, used in [[East Germany]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeromeglick.net/img/tv/test-cards/dff-tp-elec.jpg|title=DFF Electronic Test Pattern}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeromeglick.net/img/tv/test-cards/dff-tp-mono.jpg|title=DFF Monochrome Test Pattern}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jeromeglick.net/img/tv/test-cards/dff-tp-color.jpg|title=DFF Color Test Pattern}}</ref>
* Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française "[[Marly Horses]]" test card (1953, [[819 line|819-lines]])
* ТИТ-0154 colour test card (1954, abandoned prototype Soviet Union NIIR/SECAM IV system)
* [[Independent Television Authority|ITA]]/[[General Post Office|GPO]]/[[Belling & Lee]] [[Call signs in the United Kingdom#Call sign assignments for amateur radio|G9AED]] Pilot Test Transmission test cards (1955–56, 405-lines)<ref name="auto2"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://transdiffusion.org/2015/09/22/i-found-my-thrill-on-beulah-hill/ | title=I found my thrill on Beulah Hill }}</ref>
* [[Associated-Rediffusion]]–Marconi "diamond" monochrome test card versions 1, 2 and 3<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.transdiffusion.org/2015/11/30/forward-march|title=Forward March|first=Kif|last=Bowden-Smith |website=Transdiffusion}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ambisonic.net/arundercover.html |title=UK Broadcasting History|website=www.ambisonic.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Glick |first=Jerome |title=Television & Video - Test Cards & Signals |url=http://www.jeromeglick.net/tv/test-cards.html}}</ref> (1955–1958, 625-lines; Version 1 also used by [[Rediffusion Television|RTV]] in [[British Hong Kong]], [[Television Malta|TVM]] in [[Crown Colony of Malta]] and [[Nigerian Television Authority|WNTV]] in the western part of [[Colonial Nigeria]]<ref>{{Cite book |title=Test Charts |publisher=Marconi |year=1960 |page=60 |url=http://marconiintelevision.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/84534898/Test%20Charts%20-%201960.pdf}}</ref>)
* [[EIA 1956 resolution chart]] (1956, 525- and 625-lines)
* [[Checkerboard|Chequerboard]] optical<ref>{{Cite web |title=broadcast, television, test pattern, Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (Northwest German Broadcasting, NWDR), circa 1952 Stock Photo - Alamy |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-broadcast-television-test-pattern-nordwestdeutscher-rundfunk-northwest-24440833.html |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=www.alamy.com |language=en}}</ref> and electronic "[[tea towel]]"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://radio-tv-nederland.nl/historie/testbeeld/testbeeld.html | title=Testbeelden van de Nederlandse Televisie }}</ref> test cards (1950s/60s, monochrome, 625-lines, used in varying forms in [[West Germany]], Italy, Netherlands, Soviet Union, Portugal and Spain)
* [[Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers|SMPTE]] optical monochrome test card (1950s?, 525-lines; 1962–1964,<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC Tuning Signals |url=http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/bbc_tune.html |date=29 March 2000 |publisher=Meldrum |access-date=14 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223154155/http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/bbc_tune.html |archive-date=23 February 2009 }}</ref> 625-lines)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2413/044.html|title=Photographic Archive|date=July 5, 2012|website=RTÉ Archives}}</ref>
* [[Philips]] [[:File:NTV7 Testpattern.png|PM 5522]], 5534,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14q5RilUvO0|title=Philips PM 5534 Pal colour pattern generator.|date=6 April 2020 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_anderson/16836245641/|title=Sweden|date=March 16, 2015|via=Flickr}}</ref> PM 5538, [[Philips PM5540|PM 5540]],<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |title=Philips TV-Measuring Equipment, 1980 |url=https://tubedata.altanatubes.com.br/other/sos/Philips_TV-MeasuringEquipment_1980.pdf}}</ref> PM 5543, [[Philips PM5544|PM 5544]], PM 5552,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeromeglick.net/img/tv/test-cards/philips/pm5552.jpg|title=Philips PM5552 Test Pattern}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> PM 5634, [[PM5644|PM 5644]] (1960s, 525- and 625-lines, PAL, [[PALplus]], SECAM, NTSC), see [[Philips circle pattern]]
* [[Telefunken T05|Telefunken T 05]] (early-1960s, 625-lines)
* [[:File:EBU B&W Test Card.JPG|EBU electronic monochrome test pattern]] (1960s?, 625-lines)
* CBS/NBC color "bullseye" test patterns (c. 1964/65–early-1990s, NTSC)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=252977&page=4 |title=Test pattern? - Page 4 - Videokarma.org TV - Video - Vintage Television & Radio Forums |publisher=Videokarma.org |date=2021-11-17 |access-date=2022-07-24}}</ref>
* [[Telefunken FuBK]] (late-1960s, PAL)
* [[UEIT - Universal Electronic Test Chart]] (1970, SECAM)
* HTV TR.0782 test card (1970s, SECAM, used in Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Romania)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ing-sat.what.hu/hun-monoszkop.htm|title=Hungarian ETC's|website=ing-sat.what.hu}}</ref>
* EZO test card (1971, PAL, used in [[Czechoslovakia]] and [[Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic|Estonian SSR]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ing-sat.hu/tv-dx-amateurs/podani.htm | title=Podani György }}</ref>)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_anderson/16451478929/|title=Czechoslovakia|date=August 11, 2012|via=Flickr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8-2h4UQYXk|title=CST EZO TEST PATTERN|date=8 March 2009 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
* [[Bulgarian National Television|BNT]] electronic test card (1972, SECAM, used in Bulgaria)
* [[TVE test card|TVE colour test card]] (1975, PAL)
* [[SMPTE color bars]] (1977, NTSC, HDTV, SDTV)
* [[EBU colour bars]]
* [[ETP-1|Electronic Test Pattern 1]] (1979, PAL)
* [[Grundig]] VG 1001 (1980, PAL)
* [[:File:Toolcraft-Goodwood.jpg|Toolcraft-Goodwood colour test card]] (c. 1980s–2000s?, PAL, used on various Australian commercial TV stations)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-j1LOdiUuY | title=MTN9 Griffith sign-off 1986 | website=[[YouTube]] | date=23 March 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Korean Central Television#Test card|KCTV]] colour test cards (1970s?, mid-1990s, 2017, SECAM then PAL, used in [[North Korea]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/138429075@N08/23825585754/|title=KCTV screencap|date=January 17, 2016|via=Flickr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB3LY0y-Row|title=DPRK TV - Test Card|date=18 March 2010 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
* [[Snell & Wilcox Zone Plate|Snell & Wilcox SW2]] (1990s, TPG20/21 Test Pattern Generators) and [[Snell & Wilcox Zone Plate|SW4 "Zone Plate"]] (2000s, NTSC, PAL, SDTV)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://wwwapps.grassvalley.com/docs/Manuals/sam/conversion_restoration/Supervisor_Operation.pdf |title=SuperVisor Multi-Standard Display Processor Manual |publisher=Snell & Wilcox |year=2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Snell & Wilcox Test Chart #2 What is it? |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/26361361/the-snell-wilcox-test-chart-2-what-is-it-the-snell-wilcox-2-is-}}</ref>
* [[:File:Chinese HDTV test card.png|GY/T 254-2011 test card]] (2011, HDTV, [[Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast|DTMB]], used in Mainland China)<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=GY/T 254-2011 高清晰度电视测试图-标准网 |url=https://www.cstandard.com/guangbodianyingdianshixingyebiaozhun/24932.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925081722/https://www.cstandard.com/guangbodianyingdianshixingyebiaozhun/24932.html |archive-date=2022-09-25 |access-date=2022-08-09 |publisher=Cstandard.com}}</ref>