C-Day

For the military use of "C-Day" (or "Candy Day"), see Military designation of days and hours.

Colour Television in Australia

Australia was a little late in introducing Colour television, in order to choose the correct television system, waiting about 5 years from the time PAL was invented.

It was then forbidden for broadcasters to transmit the chroma burst signal, until the designated day March 01 in 1975.^[1] The broadcasters were allowed to experiment with transmitting colour signals in the picture area, and get their transmission up and running while people who had already bought colour Tv sets could only watch the shows in black and white monochrome. There were some people who built a circuit to circumvent this, where they would syncronize the crominance decoding oscillator manually.

Commercials Day in England

C-Day or Commercials Day, 1 July 2000, was the date at which UK broadcasters (with the exception of MTV UK and VH1 UK [1]) changed from requiring 4:3-aspect commercials, to requiring 16:9 Full Height commercials supplied to them, shot "14:9 safe" for those channels which in part (i.e. the analogue feeds of Terrestrial broadcasters) or in whole (many cable television and satellite television channels) continued to broadcast a 4:3 frame.

ITV and Channel 4 took advantage of C-Day to update their continuity suites to be widescreen capable, broadcasting a certain proportion of their idents in widescreen [2].

External links

• C-Day Technical Guide
• C-Day and its implications

1. ^ http://www.televisionau.com/seventies.htm see 1975 about half way down the page