[Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,

[Jon Pitans]

hey Ceri, did you find the box of speakers I left for you in the space?

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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