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I don't live in the US and I never saw a dead channel on TV in the 90s. As I read your comment I suddenly wasn't sure which was meant anymore, so I found this o
by somedude895 5y ago
I don't live in the US and I never saw a dead channel on TV in the 90s. As I read your comment I suddenly wasn't sure which was meant anymore, so I found this on Reddit:
> Gibson imagined an ancient TV ... that grey/green haze as the tube warmed to a channel that was 'active', but sending no programming. A 'dead' channel.
> Most kids in the 90's imagined the static of a TV of THEIR childhood, when not tuned to any channel, just projecting a grey/white static. Gibson has often corrected people that this was NOT the 'Dead Channel' he was referring to.
> Now, of course, a new generation is imagining a sickly bright blue ... probably the last generation to really know what a 'TV' is, when it connected to something called a 'channel'.
- zorked 5y agoYes, I also thought the GP comment was strange. The picture I had in mind was this, which seems to be what William Gibson intended: http://www.sensesfive.com/wp-content/uploads/tvstatic.jpg http://www.sensesfive.com/wp-content/uploads/tvstatic.jpg Not that author intentions matter at all.
- fouc 5y agoIt's not the white & black static screen your link shows. Looks green like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uz5hS5cJW0&t=49s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uz5hS5cJW0&t=49s
- atombender 5y agoIn the foreword to newer editions of Neuromancer, Gibson explains what he imagined: "I’d actually composed that first image with the black-and-white video-static of my childhood in mind, sodium-silvery and almost painful..." So, not green.