That site unfortunately seems broken, I only see the mal-decoded UTF-8 byte-order marker "" on the page. The HTML contains little more than that and some apparently non-functional Javascript.
(Why did Firefox remove the ability to change character encoding?? WTF are they smoking at Mozilla?)
Re:Slow-Scan Television
by jabroni_salad on Monday November 13, 2023 @01:04PM
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I don't control that website so I can't fix that, but it Works On My Machine (tm).
Works fine for me — Chrome on 2012 MacBook Pro, no VPN/blockers etc.
If you want to see a bunch of samples some people collect them and shoot them off here: http://worldsstv.com/
Also, the dominant software for this (mmsstv) was originally a japanese language program. I strongly suspect that SSTV's aesthetic is informed not just by the transmission artifacts but also more generally by japanese maximalism. if you have ever seen a jp television broadcast with way too much text on the screen you know what I mean. The image editor's defaults combined with ident requirements makes that kind of aesthetic the happy path.