[Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,

[Alex Duffield]

No no no no muuuuuch older lol, this thing is a brick

On 5 Sep 2017 7:37 p.m., "David Davies-Day" <djdavies83 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, little silver thing, something like a 5 inch screen?
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Coby-CX-TV1-Black-White-Tuner/dp/B00006I56A
>
> I had two like this, it may well have the yellow and white sockets on the
> back, just above the battery bay.
>
>
> No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
> Date:2017/09/05 6:23 PM (GMT+00:00)
> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>
> This is a very basic portable TV (can run off batteries) port wise all it
> has is an external Ariel port (it has its own) and an analogue scroll type
> tuner
>
> On 5 Sep 2017 6:02 p.m., "David Davies-Day" <djdavies83 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Looks like you just covered all the points I was thinking of there Tim.
>>
>> If there is no scart, I doubt there would be scart on B&W, or no
>> composite yellow and white, there is another way to add an AV input
>> relatively cheaply.
>>
>> A playstation one Rf cable...
>> http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=262919102923&alt=web
>>
>> This model is the easiest to use...
>> http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=282545392453&alt=web
>>
>> Just plug in or solder your AV to the inputs and feed it 5V.
>> Inside the casing, the wires coming from the PSX multi cable will be left
>> audio, video and 5V,  easy to see two of them going to the external phono
>> sockets, the one that is not is your 5V input for the circuit.
>>
>> I wouldn't expect a B&W set to show the Rf channel but for reference,  if
>> you wanted to test it on a newer set that receives both analogue and
>> digital,  these units (pretty much all fixed Rf units of that era) will
>> output on CH36.
>>
>> I've hacked a similar unit to send an AV signal upstairs through the
>> existing coaxial cable.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
>> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "Davies T." <t.davies at swansea.ac.uk>
>> Date:2017/09/05 2:44 PM (GMT+00:00)
>> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>>
>> Dear Alex,
>>
>> I agree with previous suggestions that you use a Freeview box.
>>
>> There is of course the issue of connecting the TV to the Freeview
>> box. If the TV is really ancient then it only has a aerial socket on
>> the back, so you will have to make sure the Freeview box has a
>> UHF modulator fitted. The Freeview box then appears as a new
>> station (the only one in the whole tuning range!) and the channel
>> change is of course on the Freeview.
>>
>> If the TV has a SCART connector, then it's easy. You just need to
>> use a SCART lead to connect to the Freeview box, and again you
>> select channels using the Freeview.
>>
>> Some smaller sets had two RCA sockets, one white, one yellow.
>> If that is the case you need a SCART to RCA lead.
>>
>> I would not use an up-to-date Freeview box, try and obtain an
>> old one because the latest boxes may not have SCART or a UHF
>> modulator!
>>
>> Next step is to look closely at the front and back of the TV for
>> connectors. As a minimum there will be a TV coax socket for
>> the aerial. Hopefully a SCART or some RCA connectors as well.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Timothy Davies
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk [
>> hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk] on behalf of Alex Duffield [
>> alexmduffield at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* 05 September 2017 11:57
>> *To:* Swansea Hackspace
>> *Subject:* [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>>
>> 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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