A few old-ish TVs on show

[ppppenguin]

Today Ruth and I were in central London. We visited a set of art exhibits at 180 The Strand. http://www.thestores.com/180thestrand/ Amongst them was this display of CRT TVs. About 100 of them, all displaying either snow or blue screen in the absence of signal. As with much modern art I'm really not sure about what they were trying to achieve. Except perhaps to make a room very warm indeed.

I'm slightly reminded of Endpiece, in which 1001 TV were displayed working to commemorate the end of analogue TV broadcasting. I wrote a short article about in the BVWS Bulletin. There's a video here and much more online about it. It was all about scale: 1001 sets made for a very impressive display:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2xMb6eKM4

Overall, Endpiece was good. This piece was mediocre at best.

[Refugee]

It looks a whole lot more pretty than an unmade bed.
I will give this exhibit a better review than a pallet of bricks or a submarine made out of bald tires.
It must be costing them an absolute fortune to rent the space to display them in.

[Crackle]

Not worth the electric bill.

Mike

[ppppenguin]

The building is huge. There were 20 or 30 large exhibits spread over 3 floors.

[Refugee]

The curious thing is that you can see the ones that had there black levels set up in workshops with strip lights and those with natural light.
The more UV the more blue the raster looks after the engineer has set it up with his eyes accustomed to the workshop lighting.

[ppppenguin]

I don't think any of these were "set up" as such. Some were displaying a plain blue screen, as many more recent sets do without signal. Others were displaying the usual white noise "snow".

[Refugee]

The rasters are all slightly different. The organisers have had the black level turned up a bit to make them glow in the dark.
Those blue screens usually have "no signal" in the middle of them.