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More Pacific Freeview Top Gear glitching

2009-12-15T22:21:00.004Z

As promised, here's some more automotive glitchness courtesy of the BBC's foremost Sunday evening car/entertainment programme. Don't you think they're a million times better?

As usual, these images were captured using a Pacific Freeview set top box, on this occasion tuned into Dave, 'The Home of Witty Banter', with a bit of help from a rubbish telly aerial.

YouTube glitching redux

2009-12-13T13:57:00.003Z

Previously seen on General Illarteracy, reformatted slightly for reproduction here.

Taken from YouTube glitchups on various videos. Don't you think these would make for excellent videos on their own?

Analogue glitching: North West Tonight

2009-11-13T12:07:00.004Z

Hey, analogue can get in on the act, too! To be truthful, this is actually an analogue signal being fed through my computer (digital), so I suppose you could call it anadig, or digilogue. Yeah, I quite like that term, so I might well use it more often.

These images are from an edition of North West Tonight, ITV Granada region, 20th February 2009. See, I even noted the exact date so you can go back in time and perhaps even move house just so you could check it out for yourself. Have fun and stay hungry.

Pacific Freeview glitching: Mutant Jeremy Clarkson

2009-11-07T13:02:00.004Z

This image was captured from a Pacific Freeview set top box by manipulation of the signal input. Or was it? Aha! I always knew Clarkie was secretly a mutant.

Analogue television snow

2009-11-06T17:28:00.004Z

Available in all colours of the rainbow! Or at least blue, grey and green. Taken from my computer's television capture card. Incidentally, the third one is what BBC2 looks like nowadays.

Pacific Freeview glitching: Richard Hammond on Top Gear

2009-11-05T13:06:00.004Z

These images were captured from a Pacific Freeview set top box by manipulation of the signal input. Rather amusing, don't you think? More caps from this episode of Top Gear to come.

Pacific Freeview glitching: Skills Centre advertisement

2009-04-12T21:59:00.001+01:00

These images were captured from a Pacific Freeview set top box by manipulation of the signal input. Made all the more amusing by a particularly cheesy and annoying advertisement, I must say.

About Auto Glitcher

2009-04-12T21:36:00.000+01:00

A glitch, according to the dictionary, is a "malfunction in a machine or plan"; in computing, any sudden or unintended error can be classed as a glitch.

But what if a glitch was meant to happen? What if input was manipulated by a human or some other force in some way to create, at least to some extent, a deliberate glitch? Some sort of system to create semi-automatic errors, or autoglitches?

Deliberate or not, whilst a malfunction typically brings about frustration, when viewed from a distance there is something glorious about such errors. Forget for one moment their annoyance, take a step back and revel in their visual attractiveness.

This blog collects instances of glitches for their aesthetic appeal, both from the public domain and from my own collection. The source of all images is noted.

Set top box glitching

2009-04-12T18:00:00.000+01:00

A very common form of glitch is caused by poor reception to a digital set top box. My own Freeview box, a relatively primitive and cheap model, is highly prone to glitching and is therefore an excellent source of amusement. It can get very annoying, too, though I am willing to put up with this for the occasional eye-catching, and sometimes jaw-dropping, results.