[Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,

[Ceri Clatworthy]

Raspberry pi. ..
Install XBMC Kodi

On 5 Sep 2017 12:45, "Jon Pitans" <jonpitans at googlemail.com> wrote:

> the easy answer is get a freeview box. For a more elegant solution you
> could try mounting the Freeview's guts somewhere inside the casing and cut
> out a gap to expose the freeview controls and IR receiver. Depends how
> elegant you want to make it but if you an find an older freeview box that
> is powered by a figure 8 cable it should be easy to share power from the
> mains lead coming into the telly and also route the RF coming into in
> through the freeview board and back to the telly.
>
> Of course all this comes with a pretty strong health warning as there are
> some lethal voltages hanging around inside your old CRT telly even after it
> has been unplugged, some of the big capacitors in there can deliver a
> deadly shock even after your telly has been unplugged for a few days so
> take care.
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a 7inch b&w old portable TV in full working order, but of corse is
>> analogue and there is no analogue transmissions left in this country, it
>> works well as a radio but I would like to get it to pick up atleast some
>> tv, anyone know a way to do this? I appreciate it's some pretty ancient
>> tech nowadays lol
>>
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