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Old 19th Jan 2021, 3:02 am   #15
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Default Re: Hedghog PSC programmable standards converter

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Originally Posted by jhalphen View Post
Would the software accept a 720p/50 VGA signal providing a hardware interface could be built to input a VGA signal to your composite input ?
Only the Y channel would be needed.

Over here in France, there is a growing interest to see what "true 819 line resolution" looked like. Because of HDMI/HDCP licensing issues, this input format is impossible, but VGA is.
You don't need a system converter to do that, you can get an 819 line monochrome signal directly from the VGA port of a computer graphics card.
by using a programme called WinModelines.

Here is my system working with a Windows 10 computer with an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT card. These are available for about 10 Euros on ebay, and you only need to build a modulator.

https://youtu.be/ahzdx4KgWBg

I just tried an 819 line modeline which came from Semir_DE Linux project
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=167674
(It's much simpler with Windows)
and I get this result on my 405 line set, the two side-by-side pictures exactly as we got the French Sporadic-E interference in the 1960s!
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