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Television Standards Converters, Modulators etc Standards converters, modulators anything else for providing signals to vintage televisions. |
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26th Mar 2006, 12:12 pm | #1 |
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405-Line TV from PC - First Pictures!
Hi,
Now I've put the Sony TV back together, I couldn't resist trying to find some way of seeing what I'm getting from the PC. I've not sorted out a VHF modulator yet, but remembered that if you push both the UHF and VHF buttons in together, the Sony 9-90UB will do 405-line on UHF, with negative modulation, FM sound etc. So all I needed was a bog-standard UHF modulator out of something. One of my dead Atari ST collection was duly raided and the modulator bodged onto my lash-up RGB+sync to monochrome composite converter. Given everything that's wrong, the results aren't bad. And can be improved on.
[1]MythTV buffers live television (so you can pause and slow-motion etc.) When using a frame grabber card the software encodes grabbed frames to mpeg, writes this to disk, reads it off disk, then decodes it. Using a digital terrestrial card, the captured audio/video is already an mpeg stream so less processor power is needed - the encode stage is skipped, captured data is written to disk without processing. My experimental system (600MHz Pentium III) can only handle using a frame grabber card if I set the capture resolution to something like 240x240 and quality to "lousy"; once I have a working digital terrestrial card I can increase the resolution and quality somewhat.Anyway, left to right, we have:
Regards, Kat. Last edited by Kat Manton; 26th Mar 2006 at 12:17 pm. |
26th Mar 2006, 12:27 pm | #2 |
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Re: 405-Line TV from PC - First Pictures!
sterling stuff Kat keep at it regards Den
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26th Mar 2006, 12:47 pm | #3 |
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Excellent work Kat. You must be the first person to get any sort of 625-405 standards conversion working with a PC.
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26th Mar 2006, 2:56 pm | #4 |
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Excellent stuff!
We are not worthy! I bow to such wizardry! Cheers Sean
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26th Mar 2006, 3:12 pm | #5 |
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Re: 405-Line TV from PC - First Pictures!
This is something which some people said could not be done. I knew it would, but like many others had no idea where to start!
If you would like another 405 TV for test purposes, let me know. There's also a few people working on recreated 405 Line Colour transmissions - this could be very handy! By the way, Andy Emmerson once offered £50 for anyone who could do this. I don't know whether he's on here, but if not his E-Mail is expertise (at) sigtel.com Praise to the expert - when is this going to be available? Cheers and well done! Steve P.
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26th Mar 2006, 4:39 pm | #6 |
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Well done Kat, I'm impressed.
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26th Mar 2006, 5:52 pm | #7 |
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Well done Kat!
I'm not particularly into the TV side of things - wireless and test equipment take up too much of my time. I am tempted to get into it though if it means I can enjoy the Clangers Regards,
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This is quite cool IMHO. Ten times easier than programming the hardware as 'somebody else' suggested. *Ahem*
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Well done. The pictures look pretty good. Errr .......... Is that The Clangers I see on the last shot? I so loved them. They spoke my language |
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26th Mar 2006, 9:16 pm | #10 |
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Let me also add my congratulations Kat - well done!!,... and dare I say that when I just mentioned to SHMBO your success in something that has eluded "us" for so long, her grin was sufficiently wide to signal an "I told you so" at 50 paces!
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27th Mar 2006, 7:53 am | #11 |
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Good morning Kat,
congrats to your first 405 pics. I agree with Trish. Kind regards Darius |
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Thanks all for the congratulations Quote:
As for colour, well, the output of the PC is in colour to start with, so that shouldn't prove too difficult. It's on the list of things I'd like to investigate, along with getting it to do 441-line, 819-line and anything else I can think of. I'm not sure but I suspect an off-the-shelf NTSC encoder IC with a custom crystal might be all that's necessary for 405-line NTSC. Quote:
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Right, back to work... l;et's see if I can get the Sony TV working a bit better, it's not really showing off how good the output of the PC really is right now. Regards, Kat |
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The epithet "impressive" does not justify what you have done here, Kat!
Points to the West Yorks Team!!
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29th Mar 2006, 8:16 pm | #14 |
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It's very hard to put in to words what you have achieved here Kat, suffice to say that so many of us will owe you a great deal. Ever since 405 went off in 1986 I have heard people saying how a home computer should be able to do this, but nothing realistic has ever materialised.
I really do love the idea of being able to use my PC to directly feed out a 405 signal. Thanks for doing such a superb job. It's totally beyond my understanding to even attempt to get my head around the maths alone! All the best, Peter. |
29th Mar 2006, 10:05 pm | #15 |
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Hi does this mean we could get a 405 line service working on line soon it would be worth the cost of broadband !. well done and keep up the good work. now where did i put that old 386 computer ok just kidding.
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30th Mar 2006, 9:06 am | #16 |
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Hi,
I got the Sony TV working a little better - here's some more screenshots, I got streamed video off the 'net working as well
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30th Mar 2006, 9:42 am | #17 |
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That's incredible Kat, so presumably this will allow any signal from the PC, being either originally PAL or NTSC to be converted to 405?
This will certainly make me upgrade to broadband!! Incredible!! Peter. |
1st Apr 2006, 12:38 am | #18 |
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I could not follow before what was offered on this forum regarding the conversion of 625 to 405 lines where the costs of creating a cct/unit to show 625 lines on a 405 tv format were enormous due to the pioneer like costs and a small audience that perhaps two thirds of needed to save for, but were deterred and thought's were put on the back burner
However this pc format followed by interested parties is attracting and exciting forum members that may eventually be able to use a long sought after economical system that would create further interest from many enthusiasts present and temporarily absent, furthermore this potential breakthrough may save more vintage tv's that are discarded but may add significantly to the small number of Vintage TV people's interests present. I am confident this will eventually be the outcome. Vince. Last edited by vince; 1st Apr 2006 at 12:49 am. |
1st Apr 2006, 9:31 am | #19 |
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Amazing.
Although I have not had a chance to read through all the details yet of what Kat has done, I have a gut feeling that this is a very important landmark that will change our future 405 viewing for the better.
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Hi folks
You do really need to go to the NVCF and see this...... I have just spent a very interesting half hour at Kat's Mission Control. I have been watching "The Day of The Triffids" on a 405 monitor, courtesy a bit of PC software and not very much hardware. Given that it was a small screen, and black-level restoration wasn't, it was stable, and the frequency counter sat rock solid as near to 10125 KHz (or should I say Kc/s?) as dammit - the small difference was purely because the sync clock is of course digitally generated.
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