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Old 12th Mar 2019, 8:36 pm   #8
Karen O
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Default Re: B&W Output From Modulator

Modern TVs seem very fussy about conformity to standard. I suspect that, in the analogue days, tolerance of design was essential due to component production spread. In this digital age some jobsworth digital circuit can just say 'sorry, that is 0.01% out of spec. I'm not accepting it'.

My daughter couldn't use her old game console on her new TV. I concluded that the TV didn't like the game console's non-interlaced output.

There has been a passion in recent years for taking the schematics of classic consoles and using libraries to put them verbatim onto FPGAs or such like. The result is non-standard outputs from 'modern' hardware.

Oh, for good old fashioned, tolerant, easy-to-use, gracefully degrading analogue TVs!
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