[Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,

Alan Cox alan at llwyncelyn.cymru
Tue Sep 5 14:07:23 BST 2017


On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 12:44:59 +0100
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.


Or plug it into a VHS recorder, or an old 8bit computer (in fact some of
those the TV output only works on old pre LCD TV because the signal
quality is so crap)

Alan




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