Why did old TVs produce an awfully loud static noise and weird visual when they had no signal rather than showing nothing like newer TVs do?

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Why did old TVs produce an awfully loud static noise and weird visual when they had no signal rather than showing nothing like newer TVs do?

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They always had a signal. That static was electromagnetic radiation from very shortly after the big bang, travelling through space for around 14 billion years before finally hitting the TV’s antenna. The TV was showing noise from near the beginning of time.

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