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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

TV

When browsing channel, the screen turns blue/black and white (dotted).
How would you describe it?
  

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You've lost the picture.

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  • You've lost the picture.
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You've lost the picture.
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Do you mean like the picture below? In the old days of analogue TV we used to call this "snow". I don't ever see it now on digital TV.

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There's no formal term for it. But people call it TV static or snow. The noise it produces is called white noise.
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