Broadcasting Classic 80s Shows to my Childhood TV / Commodore TV Tuner

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[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

Ah, the memories. Sitting down to play a new C64 game, thumbing through the manual while waiting for the game to load, the soft whirrs of the 1541-II drive and the fizzing sounds of the soda in my favorite Star Wars cup gently popping in the background. Such moments of bliss. I think it is a bit sad that games no longer come with worthwhile manuals anymore, nor do they take so long to load that you have the time to thumb through them.

[@RetroRecipes]

Actually some do. We review them in ZZAP! 64. But check out particularly those by Psytronik.

[@fixitalex]

You can get exiting picture on TV from Raspberry Pi without any additional convertors by using GPIO pins. There is output format vga666 that allows to conect generic VGA monitor. And it can be easy converted to RGB SCART format by combining vertical and horizontal sync and setting horizontal frequency to 16 kHz in interlaced mode. Composite is no match to RGB quality!

[@jaymac7203]

I have no idea what any of that means but i believe you completely 😭😭 lol

[@00Skyfox]

Funny, before this video I'd never heard of the "My 80s TV" website. I checked it out and was able to catch the 1984 world series (I'm a Tigers fan so yay for that one), and an episode of Heathcliff which I loved watching as a kid. It's still surprisingly entertaining!

[@jaymac7203]

I watched The A Team lol

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

It is so enriching to see your act of using a TV screen as a monitor for the Commodore, RR. I think I commented earlier that our original Commodore 64 had the green monitor instead of a color monitor. The first time I remember seeing what the Commodore 64 was supposed to dish out was when my father was able to tie a line out from the back of the computer keyboard to our own color TV. The game we were playing at the time was Donkey Kong. It was so surrealistic seeing it on both the green monitor and our TV screen. I can imagine that my father may have intuited that it wasn’t going to be the same after that, so he eventually fished around and found a color monitor. Each time I hear you mentioning the UHF setting on that converter, it makes me think of the feature film with “Weird Al” Yankovic, a film that I have seen parts of but would really like to watch from beginning to end. Furthermore, it is good that the screen of the iPhone looking at the classic TV isn’t clashing with the image of the camcorder the way the image of the camcorder clashed when pointed directly at the TV screen.

[@gmirwin]

UHF is definitely worth your time if you are a Weird Al fan.

[@iNVADER84]

Saturday morning TV was a special time when I was growing up, an experience children don’t get anymore with all the channels and internet shows. Round the Twist was one of my favourites.

[@zensibleone2295]

Have you ever, oh, ever felt like this?

[@jackiechan8840]

The one where their pissing high up the wall comes to mind. Maybe that's wrong lol

[@X22GJP]

Sure, but they are getting “an” experience as children that’s unique to their generation, and it will be as different to their kids experiences in just the same way yours were.

[@derealized797]

I hated waking up early as a kid, not just because i was a kid, but because I've had insomnia my entire life. Saturday morning cartoons were the exception, they were my reward for making it through the week, and Saturdays had to start there... days had a certain ''feel' about them back then. Which i can't quite get anymore. And actually, whenever people say "you're stuck in the past" or that "grow up" kind of BS. Oh i have, and I'm stuck in the now, actually. I just like to remind myself from time to time, that there was a time, when everything felt hopeful and exciting and inspiring. It's good for the mind to slip into those daydreams and keep some imagination alive, remember who i was, and forget about the nagging responsibilities. It's definitely more healthy than going out drinking or pretending to care about things i don't, just to prove something, which i already do mandatory, every knee popping aging day as years speed by.

[@keng6663]

The main difference is there isn’t really a ‘shared’ experience anymore.. everybody’s watching and doing their own thing at their own time.

[@SoulPoetryandOtherWorks]

Wow. You've created a 1980s-specific Time Space Visualiser, ala Doctor Who, which tunes into television programmes. There will be such delights as Jamie and the Magic Torch, the Muppets, Knight Rider, Airwolf, Street Hawk and Baywatch. The Witches and the Grinnyog might show up as well. Not to mention Chocky, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Into the Labyrinth, The Adventure Game, The Fall Guy, The Computer Chronicles, Micro Live, Electric Avenue and much much more. Will you ever be able to get any more work done? We all hope so as otherwise we won't see any more videos. A fascinating video Perifractic, all done with an interesting colour palette that feels very retro. A yellow-orange tinge? It's tough to identify when one is red-green colour blind. Actually, most American TV had that tinge when shown in the UK. The Golden Girls were very Golden indeed. Now maybe an episode of Rentaghost would be a good distraction, or the first two series of Red Dwarf when the bridge of the Jupiter Mining Corporation was equipped with Commodore 64s.

[@donnierussellii4659]

There is a time travel mechanic in the scifi novels "Time and Again" and "Bid Time Return" (also called "Somewhere in Time") that works by immersion in period sights, sounds and smells. I'm not sure I even remember the late 70s and 80s well enough anymore to be sure it would be worth returning to; I think it has a lot to do with the newness of technological things back then that have now become everyday or obsolete.

[@gmirwin]

That same time travel method was used by Batman in a comic from (I think) the 50s. It was used in other scifi stories from the mid 20th as well.

[@derealized797]

It's crazy to think back to the 80s, and how much computers cost then, compared to how completely obsolete they are today. Even computers from just over a decade ago which cost more than a new car, can be found for pocket change now on ebay. Today's best technology will always be tomorrows landfill. If you're patient, you can always afford it, eventually.

[@TheHines126]

Somewhere in time is a fantastic film😊

[@MartinFarrell1972]

80's tv was so much better. Saturday night on BBC1 was must watch. Now it's all reality shows

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Is the BBC still a thing?

[@The_0p3r8t0r]

Yeah... We are now quantity over quality

[@ZapAndersson]

You know that most Raspberrry Pi's have composite video out built in, right? You wouldn't need the HDMI box....

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

Thank you so much for making me aware of that one website! 😊

[@green64]

The raspberry pi had wifi by itself! And an analog video out via the trrs Jack. So no need for all this active Adapters.

[@Thiesi]

An episode featuring Kim Wilde _must_ be good. I saw her perform live about 20 years ago at a retro open-air concert organized yearly by a local radio station, and while most of the other acts (like T'Pau) did just do full playback (it's so laughable when none of their instruments and not even the mic is plugged in), she actually _did_ sing live. The audience loved her, and countless roses and potentially other gifts were thrown onto the stage, starting the moment she appeared. The other notable performance was by Jimmy Somerville who also sang live and who, just like Kim, just knew how to handle the audience. His voice though was out of this world. Fond memories, and I'm glad I got a chance to see two actual perform live.

[@RetroRecipes]

She is/was amazing. Check out (if you haven't) the song by Laurant featuring Kim Wilde. Take It Easy, is I think the title. So sexy!

[@polymatt]

Yes! Air Wolf! That theme song still lives rent free in my head as the kids would say.

[@shevat]

You could use second modulator tuned to other channel (first one is already used by C64). Then combine their outputs in cable TV RF splitter (but use input as output and outputs as inputs - so check if spliitter allows to pass output to input cause it may be filtered). In this configuration you can have both sources on, and just select proper channel directly on your TV. As long as modulators will be using different frequencies (channels) it should work just fine. Or just search for signal combiner instead of splitter (but non filtered splitter will work :) )

[@RetroRecipes]

Great idea too!

[@tirsek]

I came here to leave the same comment :) Two RF modulators on different RF channels along with a combiner gives you the option of just selecting the channel on the TV itself for a very authentic experience. Additional TV modulators (PCBs, Perifractic's Channel Broadcasters} could even give you multiple channels to choose from, although I'm not sure how nostalgic that is. When I was growing up, we only had a single channel available for many years! :)

[@nickwallette6201]

Highly recommend this over combining composite video and audio. Video outputs are not meant to be video inputs, which is what is happening when you power off one thing to power on the other, and have their outputs paralleled via a "splitter" cable. For audio, it's not AS big of a problem, but it's definitely better if you isolate them with a resistor (1K to 10K) on each output. Splitting and merging RF at different frequency bands is a much less kludgy solution. There have been a few projects where people load playlists of video on SD cards, and just have one Pi per "station" that broadcasts on loop, on different channels, with a composite output -> RF modulator -> RF combiner -> home coax.

[@SilentStormParadox]

23:12 the circle is now complete

[@darkstatehk]

I love the recreation of my 90s bedroom, I love looking at my C64 and my ZX Spectrum as well as my tape collections. The sound of loading tones is bliss to my ears and my CRT...mmmm love it! I recently recreated my 90s interest in girls too, however the project has been met with some resistance. It seems the parts I've procured are new old stock and they do not want to engage in teenage activities. I really don't know what to say, I love retro and I feel quite upset that my nostalgia has got the better of me.

[@blakeromo]

Mate, just to let you know, the 3.5 audio jack on the Raspberry Pi 4 outputs native composite video.

[@Sanddancer75]

9:45 That's going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day now. Not that I'm complaining.

[@speedbird737]

I did the same with a CD Autochanger in the boot (trunk) of my Porsche 944 Turbo - the head unit couldn't interfact to the Pioneer autochanger so I connected it to a similar device that broadcast the music on an FM radio channel. I just then tuned the radio to the autochanger signal !! Perfect CD quality music

[@RetroRecipes]

Superb!

[@SharkoonBln]

720p and 3:4 aspect ratio feels strangely "at home". Image quality of this video is a big step up compared to the thousands of hours I spent watching VHS tapes, recorded from analogue TV broadcastings. I wonder if ppl who did not grow up in analogue / VHS times really appreciate how far we came in video / TV quality nowaydays.

[@lonster3000]

I had no idea Commodore ever made a tv tuner, very cool! Although I do vaguely remember using a C= monitor as a tv. By 80s standards the picture quality was excellent.

[@budrekot]

I had a Commodore monitor I watched tv on from a USB DTV Dongle 20 years ago from an Athlon pc via the composite out.

[@JGreen-le8xx]

Perry, where you used the little wifi device for internet, if you want wired but can't or don't want to run wire, you can get a device like the Netgear powerline which will use the wiring in your house to send a WIRED internet signal like regular cat 5 cable. It will send the signal through the power outlet into the power wires in your wall and out another wall socket to the device you want internet given to.

[@RetroRecipes]

Yep we actually have one in 2 other rooms to get the Internet from my office to the Apple TV for high quality streaming :)

[@NecroPhil85]

I did a similar thing a couple of years ago to connect to my old CRT in my bedroom. Raspberry Pi, connected via SCART, play's 80's & 90's videos permanently from my NAS with old commercials & news at certain times. A lot of fiddling with configurations but totally worth it. Didn't want it connected to the Internet so it's all local network.

[@sajsabotage2043]

How do you get news to play at certain times?

[@oddball_the_blue]

Love the little Max Headroom poster at the start. We need to set the return of the glitchy hero.

[@RetroRecipes]

They're making a new version right now with Matt!

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

I love how you had the exact same Max Headroom poster on your wall as I did when I was a lad. Good days, good days...

[@RetroRecipes]

Yup, same one I had! Check out my bedroom recreation video for how I found it.

[@bdlii]

You’re so funny. That was the scenic route to 80s tv and you did it. Fun project.

[@Kauffy901]

So freaking funny that it came up with Live Aid-- it's the single-greatest nostalgia anchor for me, watching it live as it happened. I recently found a copy of the "entire" concert and did a ton of editing/improving to it.. nice to see Sir Bob in rare form.

[@RetroRecipes]

Yep I remember watching it live too. What a time!

[@leekehrer]

Hi Perifractic. I'm a fan of your channel and thank you for all the great content. You might not be aware but the Raspberry Pi 4 has WiFi already built in. It also can output analogue/AV through the headphone jack with the correct cable. Might help streamline the design of the setup a bit.

[@leekehrer]

Whoops, just realised that this was addressed already. My mistake. Greetings from Dundee, Scotland.

[@boballmendinger3799]

@@leekehrer greetings from Ohio! My wife's family (Hay) is Scottish. My son and I love watching Still Game, and the Beth Roars channel.

[@The_Last_Ninja]

I’m an Australian and I actually have the exact same C64C with the Breadbin style brown keyboard. For me, along with the colour scheme of the VIC20, are where it’s at for Commodore 8bit machines. 😊

[@MistaMaddog247]

You never knew that Pi 4s have a small port for composite video? Anyway I love watching My 80s TV using the Silk browser on my Fire TV. Would love to try it on a real CRT television someday...

[@MetalTiger88]

I just have to stop the video for a moment to tell you how great your videos are. I love your passion for old tech and i also just fixed a crt tv that a friend gave me twice. When i turned it on the first time, two capacitors exploded on the power supply board. So i replaced them and it worked for about two months. Then suddenly the picture started to had a few "zap's" every few seconds. Now i changed out the flyback transformer wich was "interesting"😅 but now it finally works great again. Now i can watch old movies/tv series on it and play all my retro consoles like they where meant to be played 🙂

[@BaconFire]

There's just something about a TV screen (not a flatscreen) that brings a warmth to viewing. Just playing MAME video games on a CRT vs todays monitors is not the same. Thanks for sharing this video - I know many others are out there like you ahd myself viewing life again thru the old CRT screens and its lovely.

[@jp-ny2pd]

Wow, he even re-created that childhood moment when you get a hold of your dads drill and try to assemble your toys yourself. Thanks for the laugh :)

[@RetroRecipes]

LOL oops!

[@erebostd]

Great project, as always! Many regards from germany 😁👍

[@RetroRecipes]

Danke!

[@stephanepiquemal8297]

I love this format and especially those retro DIY ideas, very inspiring ;)

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹

[@WickedScott]

It's really touching watching all of someone else's dreams come true while being simultaneously hard watching all of someone else's dreams come true. Either way, I can't stop watching. God bless and may the Force be with you

[@j0hnf_uk]

I was thinking to myself, 'doesn't the raspberry pi 4 have its own wi-fi adapter built-in?', when you were connecting up that external adapter. I thought I'd imagined it, for a while.

[@carlwells9504]

I’ve been thinking of a 90s throwback room in our house- games/movies/music objects all from the nineties (my teen and early 20s)

[@RetroRecipes]

Dewit!

[@paulmcnally]

Ha. I did something similar with a Pi 400 linked to an old Sony CRT recently. Went on a mission to find original SD versions of the progs - Grange Hill etc, it looks sooo good.

[@RetroRecipes]

Oooh Grange Hill. Yes! I mean no. Just say no...

[@SoulPoetryandOtherWorks]

@@RetroRecipes The first series of Grange Hill aired in my last year at Primary School before Mrs McCluskey turned up. Tucker Jenkins and Co.

[@gigaherz_]

Doesn't the raspberry pi have wifi already?

Yeah, the Pi4 has built in WiFi for sure.

[@GAMECLOSET]

I really enjoyed this one. I listened to it a second time while I was placing equipment back in my studio after being gone for the weekend. It really was fun to see another piece to the 80s bedroom fall into place. 💜😀

I've even watched Knight Rider on a Russian "portable" black&white TV ("Junost" or what its brand was), with so poor receiving that I could barely see anything in the forest of "ant football" (this is how we called the static white noise "pattern") and even without sound (other than static white noise, again). We had a kind of decent colour TV as well, but in the summer, we moved to the downstairs of our house so we (well, my parents ...) could lend the major part of the house for some paying guests.

[@culttelevision]

the lovely Karen Kopins doing the wonderful 80s dance moves....I might have to visit the little boys room.... no! You've taken us back to 1984 . That means Ribena in tupperware blue milk style beakers followed by a mint Penguin.

[@Rawsolo]

We’re nostalgic because some things were way better. Thank you for this.

[@MrUNIXsnob]

Awesome! Love it!

[@dariodzimbeg]

And as we all know, PCB stands for: Probably Clear Broadcast!

[@electronraygun6346]

Excellent stuff! Coincidentally I'm in the middle of a similar project but instead of online videos I'm ripping a large amount of DVDs and using a Pi but converting from HDMI to RF. The videos will play randomly and will also play commercials and channel identifiers and stings regularly. I figure with a large enough amount of content I should be able to have it playing constantly so I can just tune to it like a real broadcast channel. Should be great when I can't find anything to watch on the almost infinite choice I have through streaming services. I think it will be like going back to the 80s or 90s where you watched what was on, on the 4 (later 5) channels we had when I was growing up! I'm hoping I land on Alien or Aliens late at night on a weekend like sometimes I did as a kid! Fun times! 😊

[@RetroRecipes]

That's amazing. Will you be putting it on KZbin?

[@electronraygun6346]

Thanks! I've been thinking about maybe doing a quick video of it for KZbin once it's done 🐱 There are some similar projects on KZbin that inspired me to add the commercials and identifiers/stings. Hopefully I will have the project up and running fairly soon! I am also in the middle of building a PiStormSTE based on this guy's project here kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqW0hKJtfJh3eNEsi=ALHPkwILKzHbohx6 So I guess it depends on which project grabs my attention the most 😁 Of course I ordered the PiStorm PCBs from PCBWaaaaaaay!

[@afxtwn126]

This is exactly what I want to do and have seen similar projects on YT but I can't get my head around the coding involved as I have never done it. At the moment I can't decide whether to go the Pi route or to just get a NAS and fill up some hard drives with DVD rips. I would be very interested in seeing your project.

[@lemonherb1]

Back in my college years, I used a combination of my RGB monitor on my Apple IIGS with a Apple II Video Overlay card, paired with a VCR, antenna and desktop speakers to use as a TV. Not as elaborate as your setup to replicate old TV, but it did remind me of the old days

[@jmxtoob]

Oh I had the same cassette deck! Boots? I remember hauling it around at about 5 years old, full of batteries

[@davedave9308]

That was a neat solution and a fun watch. If you want to keep it fully retro, how about a VCR with loop function? An E240 tape on long play could give you 8 cheeseball hours of 80s goodness. And you can start/showcase your VHS collection.

[@albert_vds]

I see a Space Shuttle C64 game in box, nice! I've got the same one for my birthday a few years ago, we didn't have a C64 back then only other family members.

[@RetroRecipes]

Loved playing it as a kid and couldn't believe it when I completed the entire mission!

[@Allen-by6ci]

Almost time for my annual viewing of the Seasons Greetings from Commodore demo program

[@vhfgamer]

I don't have my childhood TV anymore. I got it by fishing it out of a dumpster sometime in the late 90s. Sometime around the mid 2000s, there was an earthquake and it beaned me in the head when it fell off the dresser. The sound didn't work anymore, so it went back into the dumpster.

[@yorgle]

I now feel the urge to make a device with two tv tuner rotary knobs, which are wired up to be encoders for a raspi to change between video streams...

[@davidmcilroy1578]

Super episode. You are quite an inspiration for a lot of us, who enjoyed the 80s first time around and are fascinated by reliving parts of it through old and new tech. Thanks and keep it up 🙏🏻❤️ BTW - when you gonna do a RR (first R reversed of course) badges? My jacket is screaming out for one!

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹 Check out retrorecip.es/badge ;)

[@shawnwade302]

I loved the street Hawk series!

[@leopardsxx]

loved that to bits, very authentic 80s vibe! btw havent seen you do any playing of retro games for a while unless ive missed them!

[@enkidu9989]

I have to say, I love this project! Great episode. Thank you.

[@lucasn0tch]

The Raspberry Pi 4 has a setting in which you can enable composite video from the 3.5mm headphone jack. However, the Raspberry Pi 5 does not have such feature.

[@grahameida7163]

Also it’s got WiFi as well 🤣

[@RetroRecipes]

Yep check out the popup correction and other comment thread 👍🕹

[@EP31983]

At first I want to thank you for slowing down the world around me a little when I watch your videos! I was born in 1983 so I didn't get that much of the 80's but I am a still huge fan of Knight Rider and Back to the Future and the other stuff of the "good old times". Your channel is perfect, so please keep it on. 🤓🌻 Best greetings from Germany

[@Applecompuser]

Great video. Thought I would ask a question. I moved about 8 years ago. When I moved, I thought I tossed most of my Atari gear away except the disks-which was the only thing I kept. The owner of place kept it all however, and asked me to take it. It is two 8 bit ataris, 2 2600s and some other things.The computers were my originals as was one of the 2600s. I don’t have much space now and am also in law school and my time is super pressured. One idea is to simply take photo of the messy boxes and post to FB group I am in and say $200 plus shipping will get the two boxes. Another thought is to simply toss the items to make best use of my time. I just thought I would ask. Thanks for any guidance you might have. Love your videos. PS It boggles my mind that the 80s music videos are not broadcast by anyone at least once in a while. They were so fun.

[@SeismicFrog]

My guy, if you need a content idea? I strongly urge you to do a series of technical ASMR videos where you repair things or read manuals interspersed with sounds of connectors clicking and peels. Read 80’s game magazine reviews. Press releases. If you’re gonna lean into this stylized stuff - lean in. You have golden pipes for a voice and the accent is smoooth. And before you ask, I’m a straight guy in his mid-50’s. It’s just something I would listen to falling asleep as a GenX career IT guy.

[@RetroRecipes]

It's a request I get from time to time and I appreciate it. I have tried on occasion, but it's never performed particularly well. But perhaps I need to try more the format you described. 1) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6abpXaaZZKVas0si=dBrGcW0eeu-cw3cO 2) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmPUZmqbrNapnZosi=J6beP9I4j29PaWca&t=706

[@RETRONuts]

Amstrad made a tuner for the green RGB monitor thats was used for Amstrad CPC464, I used it for my Sega Mega Drive in the 90s.

[@RetroRecipes]

I remember that one!

[@spaunhurst]

was a TRS 80 kid and have put together my PC's from 8088 to now, wish i would have kept each one, im 51 now but thank goodness for Dos Box i can play the real games

[@jackiechan8840]

Boots sold tellies?! Love the retro vibes.

[@GeorgesChannel]

Mr. 80's striked back again! I laughed out loud at "Marstudy" and the high-perfection Starwars patreon credits at the end! Thank you for doing what you are doing! Love your channel!

[@RetroRecipes]

Not just high perfection - absolute perfection! It _floored_ everyone. Thank you!!

[@GeorgesChannel]

​@@RetroRecipes You are welcome. Enjoyed every minute!

[@Montgomerygolfgator]

The Raspberry Pi 4B can output composite through the 3.5mm jack, you don't need the HDMI adapter ether...

[@Lion_McLionhead]

The lion kingdom had a color TV for less than a year before the flyback transformer died. Then it was B&W for the rest of the 80's. You could always average 8 frames in post to get rid of the flicker.

[@jali7913]

What a cute little project. I didn't have a TV in my room, but I get the feeling it gives. I have a question about the video input: What's the advantage of using the HDMI-to-composite adapter over the built-in composite out of the raspberry pi 4? I used the latter in some of my projects, and it usually works fine. It'll be one less box under the table.

[@RetroRecipes]

No advantage, I just forgot the Pi 4 still has that (the Pi 5 does not). Glad you liked the project!

[@WahidKhan-r5m]

Absolutely brilliant!!

[@fallwitch]

Well done mate! Takes me back.

[@godliam]

Once again a cracking good video!

[@brick6347]

I just tried that My 80s TV site and immediately ended up on an episode of Blockbusters! Never particularly enjoyed it, but my dad would have it on and sometimes yelled at the screen! So, memories, I guess, though fond is probably stretching it! (Did you know that Bob Holness was James Bond before Sean Connery?!) Cool site though, thanks for the heads up!

[@andyt2510]

Can I have a P please Bob?

[@RetroRecipes]

@@andyt2510 Disgusting!

[@Colin_Ames]

Great project. That keyboard looks excellent, I wish someone made something similar (but maybe more economically priced) for BBC Micro emulators.

[@wicksta]

I thought you were going to say PCB stands for Pi Can Broadcast!

[@RetroRecipes]

Can't it? ;)

[@TheZorch]

I went to that website, checked out a few channels. It was 1pm and daylight outside, when I looked up from the screen it night out and 6pm. Thanks. 🤣

[@xtermin8]

Love your chanel. Reminds me of the days sat over my Spectrum with my Multiface 1 cracking the games for infinate lives. Many of these appeared in Crash :) Bring back those times.

[@UpLateGeek]

If you just get a separate RF modulator and a T joiner (or more appropriately an RF power combiner), you could have the raspberry pie and your C64 on different channels, and flick between them as desired.

[@jonc-1989]

Plug an antenna into your modulator and into your TV and you can send the signal wirelessly. That's what I do

[@robchissy]

Maybe you could connect a vhs system to the comodore tv tuner

[@sailormouthdotorg]

Lego moon baseplate with craters. That takes me back. Great job on your tv setup.

[@espressomatic]

Wait, did I miss a bit in the middle somewhere? Why the use of the WiFi-to-RJ45 adapter when the Pi itself can already connect to any WiFi network?

[@bjy128]

Raspberry Pi 4 has WIFI built in it also can output Composite video and audio on the 3.5mm TRRS jack. The Pi may also have an underscan/overscan setting.

[@ktwice7481]

What an amazing episode ❤ much love to u guizz from an 80s kid ❤ ps the tape recorder background music was gold 😂

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you like it!

[@eskey691]

Tv Am with Ann and Nick (i think it was them). 80s to 90s cartoons are the best things ever Thunder Cats, Transformers and X-Men a long with many others ofc such good times good times. Great video as always and yes i will be watching the Lost Boys after my tea thanks to the classic tune. As always keep up the great work and have a great weekend oh and ofc take care.

[@RetroRecipes]

Good times!!

[@jonathan.mathews]

The raspberry pi 4 has a composite video port, right? Also, instead of running raspbian you should set up a slideshow viewer and add a load of videos somewhere.

[@BCjeffro420]

love it well done as always.

[@jaymac7203]

This is amazing lol you can find literally anything on the Internet 😢

[@robertpanuski4213]

At 3:27, what is the model number of the Commodore branded TV tuner? This is a new 1 to me. Something we probably didn't receive here in the US. I can't find anything on it. Commodore for the most part had great monitors & with the addition of their own branded TV tuner add-on made their great monitors even more useful. Although a typical VCR from the same time period would probably had been more readily available & cost effective. But, still it's Commodore branded with matching color & aesthetics. I want 1!! Thx RR!! keep'em coming!

[@RetroRecipes]

Looking at the back I see Modele STV-01

[@robertpanuski4213]

@RetroRecipes thank you! My mind is now at rest. Maybe in a future episode, could you be so kind as to place the matching monitor on it? Thanks for the reply. I adore my 64!

[@stephen9462]

All those connections and unshielded cables 😮

[@magicknight8412]

Nice one, this is worth a round of applause!

[@TheShornak]

Speaking of classic TV did you every watch that 70's British show Space 1999? I used to love that show and it has a cult following now.

[@jmssun]

The first piTuber

[@GarryWallis]

That is sooo freaking cool 😍

[@jzarfas]

Hello mate, Thanks for the fantastic nostalgia trip, One of your specialities among many other skills! Here in the Uk in the early to mid 90s I recall using tv video senders, it would take an av signal and transmit it via a tunable analogue signal which could be tuned into tvs wirelessly around the house! So you could easily pick one up, and broadcast av signals into it and use your Tv modulators to watch the signal on multiple retro devices :-) If you lived in a built up area with a good antenna sometimes you could see what others were broadcasting mwahahahahaha

[@ThBreadMan]

I want to start getting into MS-DOS basic programming what would be a great cheap desktop/laptop would you suggest?

[@CinemaStormz]

Awesome video keep up the good work!

[@ForgottenMachines]

3:11, all I can say is...thank you!!!

[@dabadeedabadaa]

So I noticed something, you need to press F and then press F11 I noticed this because you pressed F and it when full screen but with the top obscured, but then when you pressed F11 after pressing F and it was completely full screen. Then right after you were showing Knight Rider but you had only pressed F11 and it was almost full screen but not quite, it had black borders. Just thought I’d let you know, you may have already figured that out but just saying in case.

[@RetroRecipes]

Correct. The borders were just from the encoded video of that particular show. Most don't have borders. And yes, simply press F, F11.