Modifying a B&W TV for composite video input

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Jun 30 21:48:00 2003

--- Ian Primus <ian_primus_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Those little RF boxes don't really convert from composite to RF, they
> just provide a switch and a connection to a TV antenna input. The
> output signal from the computer is already RF.

For the little ones with just a switch and a coil, that's all true. In
the case of a VIC-20, there _is_ an external composite adapter that
hangs off the DIN-5 for power, composite video and sound.

I _think_ the one for the TI-99/4a was also a true external RF modulator.

-ethan
Received on Mon Jun 30 2003 - 21:48:00 BST