Philips G7000 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Aug 1997

...
  Well, finding a composite video point is trivial,
therefore. 
Inside the modulator can, I fear.

I had another look inside last night.  The two metal cans appear to be 
video circuitry (on motherboard) and modulator (separate).  They are 
linked by a 4-way ribbon cable of which one conductor is ground.  I 
suspect the remaining three of being video, line sync and frame sync.  
(They could, I suppose, be composite mono, U and V but I doubt it)

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  Someday I must
get a decent TV standard monitor - probably the Barco I 
sold to my brother for use as a telly - but I ought to have a composite  
 Err... You do not use a Barco monitor as a TV. It's far too nice for that. I 
 happen to have one, you see. 
Au contraire, the Barco is one of the few pieces of kit I _would_ 
consider using as a telly (the other being my Bush TV24 of course).

...
  Not of course. There were Barco's with built-in
PAL, SECAM or NTSC decoders  
OK, you win.

...
  >> What chips _other than the 8048_ are in this
device? Is the video side 
 >> custom or does it use one of the many Philips video chipsets? (Philips 
 >> Prestel terminals tend to be stuffed with their Teletext IC's, for 
 >> example...)  
Pretty boring, I'm afraid - 8245 and 6110 plus about 20 TTL chips.  I 
can't read the numbers of the chips inside the video can unless I 
desolder said can from PCB.

Philip.