Talk:Hanover bars

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Can someone please add a picture illustrating what Hanover bars look like? 71.108.215.10 06:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Or indeed a better explanation of what they are or where the name came from! I'm supposing they're the intense coloured patterns, similar to a dot crawl effect, that used to be very visible on news and weather reports if the presenter was wearing a jacket or shirt with a chequed pattern and stood at just such a distance from the camera to provide massive interference with the encoding and broadcast process... May however be difficult to get a screencapture that can be uploaded without digging through hours of ancient shortplay VHS tape, rigging the tape deck up to an elderly non-delay-line, cheap-comb-filter small-screen tube set and putting a digital or film camera in front of it on a long exposure (would it even work if the tape was paused?). Reason being the effect I'm thinking of has pretty much died out, I haven't seen it for many years - granted my main TV input has been digital cable, satellite, and broadcast, but it was neither evident on analogue transmission because of better fashion sense and generally higher quality of TV set electronics.