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paulsherwin · 12th Sep 2022, 4:36 pm

OK, just to summarise what you will need to do. You will need to connect a streamer such as an Amazon Firestick or Google Chromecast to an HDMI / composite video digital/analogue converter, then connect the analogue CV signal to a 625-405 digital standards converter. Some of these have VHF modulators built in, but if not you will need a separate modulator which will create the VHF Channel 1 signal to connect to the vintage TV aerial socket. All this is perfectly doable, but it's complicated and there's a lot to go wrong.

A separate issue is the aspect ratio. All modern TV has a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio rather than the almost square 5:4 ratio still often used in 1953. If a 16:9 picture is displayed on a 5:4 or 4:3 TV, everything will be squashed horizontally with people looking like matchstick men. There are partial workarounds for this, but it's one more thing to consider.

12th Sep 2022, 4:36 pm	#9
paulsherwin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 27,960	Re: Loan of a ~1953 Pye Television in working order requested for Coronation ... OK, just to summarise what you will need to do. You will need to connect a streamer such as an Amazon Firestick or Google Chromecast to an HDMI / composite video digital/analogue converter, then connect the analogue CV signal to a 625-405 digital standards converter. Some of these have VHF modulators built in, but if not you will need a separate modulator which will create the VHF Channel 1 signal to connect to the vintage TV aerial socket. All this is perfectly doable, but it's complicated and there's a lot to go wrong. A separate issue is the aspect ratio. All modern TV has a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio rather than the almost square 5:4 ratio still often used in 1953. If a 16:9 picture is displayed on a 5:4 or 4:3 TV, everything will be squashed horizontally with people looking like matchstick men. There are partial workarounds for this, but it's one more thing to consider.