Narrow-Bandwidth Television Association

In the beginning days of PAL colour television, about 1970, the daily TV transmissions started with the RETMA testcard and then about 10 colour slides showing women, flowers and fruits. I think the slides were distributed by the EBU.

Does someone have these slides available? We could use them (part of them) in a new NBTVA testdisc with CCNC test sequences.

After a few years the slides were replaced by the well known colour test pictures from the Philips generator PM....?

I should have the slides saved, long ago, from the Philips Nat.Lab. television studio, but can't find them back...

Hi Klaas,

Can't help with the slides but I can remember them as well.

The PAL Test Gen? Maybe PM5544,

Cheers

Graham

Graham,

yes, PM 5544 may be the number, but I am looking for the EBU colour slides. I have already searched the web, but I can't find them.

Hopefully someone else haves them or finds them on the web.

Klaas

I found them back after 30 years. The new avatar at the left is one of them, for me the most charateristic one. I have more of them for future use, they were 15 numbered colour slides of still remarkably good colour rendering.

The strange thing is that I remembered the cupboard where they should be, but they were hidden behind lots of other suff, so I couldn't just pick them up, but had to remove almost everything before I did see them again.

Several of them will be used in the new colour NBTVA CD, although they will be 3:2 (portrait) in stead of 2:3 (landscape). So left and right parts are cut off. You will see this in the new Newsletter.

That sounds very exciting. I hope the new newsletter will arrive soon.