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Coloured snow

Everyone is probably familiar with the white noise or snow that can appear on an analogue television screen. I know this comes from electronic noise and stray electromagnetic signals, but television signals encode colour information, so how come this random noise always shows up as white?

Jack Bishop, Redditch, Worcestershire, UK

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