[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-20 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
I've also had TVs with modular RF inputs. One was a huge plasma wall TV and the other a tiny cheap caravan TV but both had locations for an RF input card which I assumed could be replaced by cards to suit local national TV standards. These have no visible controls and, like the PC TV cards,

[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-20 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
At one time I had a few Bt848 based PCI TV tuner cards for a PC - Hauppage was a big player but there were others. Some were composite video in, some also had a TV tuner section. I tried one as a video converter for PAL composite out from some home micro - possibly a Jupiter Ace. It wasn't that

[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-20 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 1:08 PM Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > Does anyone know of a small TV tuner that tunes old analog TV channels (US > NTSC) and outputs composite or VGA or HDMI signals? I've looked around a bit > but haven't found anything. It's relatively easy to build one, but I would

[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-19 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sun, 19 May 2024, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color Computer) that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily available composite video, even internally, only modulated RF output. Currently I have an old CRT TV

[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-19 Thread Doug McIntyre via cctalk
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 06:59:50AM -0500, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color Computer) > that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily available > composite video, even internally, only modulated RF output.

[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-19 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
> On 05/19/2024 8:50 AM CDT Henry Bent via cctalk wrote: > > > On Sun, May 19, 2024, 08:08 Will Cooke via cctalk > wrote: > > > I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color > > Computer) that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily > > available

[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-19 Thread Henry Bent via cctalk
On Sun, May 19, 2024, 08:08 Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color > Computer) that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily > available composite video, even internally, only modulated RF output. > Currently I have

[cctalk] Re: NTSC TV demodulator

2024-05-19 Thread CAREY SCHUG via cctalk
I presume the "digitial tv converter boxes" will pass through an analog signal, and suspect at least some of them provide a composite output. --Carey > On 05/19/2024 6:59 AM CDT Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > > > I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color Computer)