What the white noise / tv static screen is
Television static was amplifier noise with no signal to drown it out, displayed as rapidly changing grey pixels. Real static has visible grain rather than being noise at the exact pixel level, which is why the grain control matters — at one pixel it looks like a modern digital artefact, and at three or four it looks like a television.
The slowly rolling brighter band is the horizontal-hold artefact people associate with a badly tuned set. It is optional, because for some uses a perfectly even field of noise is what you want.
- A background plate for video, photography or a stage set
- A horror or found-footage aesthetic for a party or stream
- A texture source for design work — the download is at your screen resolution
White noise screen: visual static, not audio
This page is silent. "White noise" is used here in the visual sense — a screen full of random brightness values — not the audio kind you might use for sleep. Nothing on this site plays sound.
Everything is generated in the browser from a random buffer scaled up to the display, so it never repeats and never loops the way a video file would.
How to run the white noise / tv static screen full screen
Press the fullscreen button on the player, or the F key. Escape brings you back to the page. On a desktop browser F11 does the same job and hides the browser’s own toolbars as well, which is what you want on a display that is going to be left running.
Everything you change in the settings is written into the address bar as you change it, so the version you have set up is a link. Bookmark it, or send it to whoever is running the screen. Space pauses and resumes at any time.