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I thought he was describing a gray sky? Are there televisions that display blue static?
by kolanos 4y ago
I thought he was describing a gray sky? Are there televisions that display blue static?
- thfuran 4y agoNot static, just solid blue.
- eru 4y agoThe TV detects the static and replaces it with solid blue.
- michaelt 4y agoThe first use was in Neuromancer by William Gibson, in 1984, referring to a classic analog TV showing gray-white static. Modern digital, smart, auto-tuning TVs will show an error message rather than static when there's no signal available [1], so later authors have used modified homages like: "The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel." in Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/comments/3mgxca/what_my_tv_does_when_theres_no_signal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/comments/3mgxca/what...