Date   : Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:25:32 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Atom Questions

Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> Humm possibly not then, I have heard of problems getting old computers 
> talking to modern TVs, Sinclair ZX80/81s spring to mind.

It seems that modern things recording off-air signals have a lot of 
difficulty in finding something that isn't bang on channel. I have a TV 
tuner card that can find my VHS deck bang on UHF55, but asking it to 
find the Betamax on sort-of-UHF65 is just not going to happen. I can see 
the scan go right past it, but it is not on-channel enough to lock to 
it, and I'm afraid life is too short to fiddle with the tuning given 
that I can simply CVBS into the VCR and CVBS into the computer instead 
of all the RF fiddling. I was only RF fiddling because... well... I was 
bored one day. :-)

Anyway, it might explain why an old computer and a new recorder don't 
like each other.


Best wishes,

Rick.


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