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

13 Aug 1997

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   Presumably if
it has a UHF output it also has an internal modulator. Can't you
 just tap off composite video from the input to that? 
It does indeed, and on a separate board, too! 
Well, finding a composite video point is trivial, therefore.

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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.

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 one as well (Barco is RGB, of course).  At present the
monitor I have  
Not of course. There were Barco's with built-in PAL, SECAM or NTSC decoders
acording to the user manual for mine. (Barco User manual = 1/2 page explaining
the controls and about 40 pages telling you how to set it up, schematics,
waveforms, test points, etc).

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 requires Video + Composite Sync - or it can free-run
and generate sync 
for a TV camera.

  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...) 
I can't remember offhand, except that there are quite a lot of them.  
I'll have another look tonight. 
Please e-mail me a list when you get a chance and I'll see what I can find out
about them.

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There seem to be two large rectangular metal cans - one with its own PCB 
(probably the UHF modulator) and one on the motherbaord (VHF for US?) 
Possible VHF for europe. There are 625 line transmissions on Bands 1 and 3
according to some info I have.

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Philip. 
-tony