On Dec 12, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 12/12/2011 12:15 PM, vintagecoder at
aol.com
wrote:
Or you
can get a TV card for a PC for under $20. Most of them work
nicely with Linux and all of them work with Windows, though the actual
viewing applications get a bit ugly.
I meant to ask about this since I have no idea what it is, I thought it
would be used for receiving over-the-air TV signals. Are you saying they
have input jacks that would work with old computers that had TV output
connections?
Indeed, those are the SAME signals! Think about it. :)
Oh, I realized he meant the modulated outputs from a computer/console. Yeah, same signal,
less propagation loss over coax. And it's really just the composite video signal
modulated by a carrier; normally, if something only provides the RF out (like the CoCo, as
folks have mentioned), you can tap the composite signal somewhere further up the chain if
you need the baseband signal.
- Dave