Online with my 1980 - TV Set

[@ThePostApocalypticInventor]

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[@ojito1049]

Like muy buen video no english

[@jenniferlynn3579]

Pretty cool video, but oh my goodness the coil whine in some parts is SO loud haha. Have you grown deaf to those higher frequencies? :P

[@julian5966]

are you from Germany??

[@neilsongibson8111]

The Post Apocalyptic Inventor what is the name of this tv?

[@eldontyrellcorp]

When can we buy this uhf advanced modulator kit ? It's not available anymore. Thanks !

[@odannyboy3338]

I loved watching you do this to give use to these old work horses from our past! Very satisfying for me as well! I’m not professionally schooled in these things, but I am self taught and get so much joy out of integrating old technology with new! Happy Holidays from across the pond!

[@VirtualRobotsRevolt]

that 1980 german tv on the stand is so awesome!!! Ive never seen anything like it in the USA.

[@rayislooking2]

so cool i have never seen one in the usa

[@BLY99]

+Virtual Robots Revolt You should check out Philco TVs.

[@Max_Mustermann]

Interestingly it seems to have been designed by the same guy, who was responsible for the first Apple Mac designs (Hartmut Esslinger).

[@honestguy7764]

wega, braun, brion vega, bang and olufsen, loewe, metz, radiola, vieta, thomson to name a few, were great european electronics brands now gone . Glad to have met them.

[@alexkastano96]

Virtual Robots Revolt in US the similar ones was in 60s

[@gh778jk]

When I was a student, I had a job in a audio video repair shop (smaller local place) I have repaired, mended and also cursed all these, now obsolete, devices until my eyes bled ! Brings back memories... Cheers Paddy

[@Th3Pr0digalS0n]

I find it funny how the RF modulator circuit is bigger than the computer putting out the video signal. Good job.

[@rowlandcrew]

The content is not silly. Engineering enablement demonstration unencumbers re-use so others can concentrate on doing other things. I appreciate the detail which enables the how-to and simplifies re-use.

[@YukiNeko-Neko]

I know this is a few years old, just wanted to say thank you for making this video. I did not know this was possible. with what you have shown here, ill make a setup similar to yours. I still have a tv from 1982 that I used to play Atari and my Commodore 64 on. I am sure my kids and grandkids will get a kick out of it. When they ask to use the internet I can mess with them and say this is it :). My 1st PC as a teen was the VIC-20 Commodore

[@DanielMcGregor]

Nice Project. It's always fun to ad modern features to a existing piece of "obsolete" technology. It gives you a chance to try and understand how components work together and you end up with something that is your unique creation. Well done.

[@ThePostApocalypticInventor]

A nice weekend to all of you!

[@kabeza79]

danke!! i like this retro videos

[@ooNap0oo]

interesting video, even with the cold :) nice weekend

[@silasmarner7586]

Super cool implementation of the RF modulator. Nice!

[@NIGGAdatCooks]

Interesting video, I was watching Transformers and wondering if its all possible to hotwire a old radio to a desktop pc to broadcast shortwave messages or so, info here >> transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Maggie_Madsen

[@The-three-eyed-Prophet]

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[@ptonpc]

Very cool. It could breath new life into my old CRT TV. Thanks

[@brianboni4876]

Vintage games on that cool old tv is a great idea.

[@martinweizenacker7129]

Very nice! But I couldn't help but notice that the Wega TV is in severe need of adjusting the linearity. You can see it clearly starting at 15:10 when you are scrolling down and up and shapes changing as they move down or up on the screen.

[@telefonumeu1074]

I love it when you explain the basics of everything I've learned a lot from your videos keep up the good work you do an awesome job

[@rarutab]

That's the most hipsterish Tv that I have ever seen. A cathode tube tv from the 1980's, that is inspired from the televisions of the 1950's. You can now hear hipsters dropping their coffees at every starbucks

[@stonent]

I like that TV, it has a very retro-future look to it.

[@FunGamingTube]

Für 1980 ein schöner Fernseher . RGB Anschluss , 2 Chinch Anschlüsse für einen Receiver , und man kann sogar 2 Boxen direkt anschließen .

[@lorrainejames]

Loving the tips you’ve presented here. I have all sorts of old appliances around the house and this is handy.

[@guily6669]

Damn, that TV is even way more advanced than what we had home here in like 1995 lool, it was black and white, no Scart, no controller and only a few channel buttons :).

[@xzendor7]

It was educational on old tech and how much things have changed.

[@andyhoffmann8550]

17:03 Nur keine falsche Bescheidenheit ;-) Das war ein Spitzenvideo. Ich bin total begeistert von deiner Arbeit und lerne noch einiges dazu. Ich kann nur sagen: Thumbs up and up, and up.......

[@toddspeck9415]

Wow, Amazing work. The way you explain things is very easy to understand. Really impressed with this.

[@JoshHopkinsYT]

Very cool. . . . I find that old little tv to be very aesthetically pleasing.

[@JoshHopkinsYT]

That silver one is awesome also!

[@RinoaL]

7:21 wow i never noticed that 22nd pin on SCART plugs, thats really cool how it connects to the outer shield. i've actually never seen SCART in person though, the connector looks really cool though, i've wanted to find stuff that used SCART for like a decade now. lol. but wow, that tv from 1980 is amazing looking. :D

[@xploder999]

Here in the UK, it's still pretty easy to find SCART equipment, for example, the TV in my bedroom has 2 SCART sockets alongside 3 HDMI sockets, as well as things a few other connectors such as HD component in, composite in, RF & VGA, so still very useful for everyday stuff. If you live outside of Europe, I'm sure you could find a TV and a VHS or DVD player that supports SCART on eBay, etc. I'm sure that some BluRay players even have SCART for legacy support.

[@RinoaL]

Joseph Russell no, i dont think anything in the US has SCART. if i bought something from ebay it would have to be intended for use in europe, so probably import old stuff. and i dont care about it that much.

[@xploder999]

As long as it's not too old, it should have a universal power supply to work on your lower mains voltage and higher frequency. Plenty of reasonably modern stuff that's cheap on eBay, but not sure how expensive shipping would be for you

[@RinoaL]

Joseph Russell but your saying youd throw away a tool that is only 6 months old and barely used? thats pretty wasteful imo.

[@xploder999]

I'm saying that equipment that is very old will probably be 230V only whereas newer stuff will work anywhere in the world. I still have all of my old SCART equipment, including a VHS recorder that only supports mono sound

[@turboslag]

Even 405 line TV's can still be used, with a standards converter. I've surprised quite a few people when they see a 1950's black and white TV displaying modern TV signals!

[@Legotronics]

Really impressed with the PPL RF-modulator kit. Looks to be a massive difference in quality. Enjoyed the video a lot. Schnelle Genesung!

[@rudyvk]

The BNC on the Samsung TV set is indeed a Composite in. Panasonic also used to do this in the 90's.

[@nferraro222]

Speaking as someone who has a 50-year-old rotary phone with a DSL port on the side, I thought this was a pretty good project. That TV really is awesome looking.

[@54154552]

You are a gentleman and a scholar !!!! You litteraly saved my home project with RF modulator :D

[@mtothem1337]

I would love seeing it play vaporwave.

[@Sketchy_Dood]

That’d would be cool af

[@station240]

I had two VCRs that used BNC for video input and output. As everything else used RCA connectors, I had a BNC to RCA adapter permanently attached to the VCR.

[@Captain_Char]

I know this is an old video, but you can usually find those cables at thrift stores, I have a few from them, sure the color codes may not match but through trial and error they do work

[@BigManko]

Your Raspberry isn't getting enough power, because it is showing that little rainbow-square in the right top corner :)

[@o0arend0o]

Some ten years ago there was a diy vga-scart option when using an ati graphicscard. It involved changing the output timing of the vga output and adding a battery on the scart connector to trick the tv into rgb-in mode. Using overscan it produced excellent video quality. i do believe there are din connectors in older tv's (before scart) sending rgb or composite signals.. thanks for making these videos!

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

That's actually a pretty neat idea. Now open the old WEGA TV and see if there's some space to put the RasPi inside, and have just the cables for keyboard and mouse come out (or use wireless keyboard and mouse). Also include the USB PSU for the RasPi and have it all turn on with the main power switch of that TV. Now, after tweaking the UI a little for low resolutions, you will have your ultra-compact 1980s PC-Computer-TV that nobody suspects to be a full PC :-)

[@johannesyde4408]

Awesome video, the quality of the RF modulator is really good.

[@mictheflash]

Great video... I used to have one of the black 80's TV your modifying, it definitely had its limits but I loved it as it was the first TV I actually bought myself, wish I still had it, it would be great to copy what you did with yours 👍 Thank you so much for sharing this ♥️

[@kermets]

Great stuff thanks.....I remember using the 2-3 vhf modulates for hooking up sky tv in the 90's working for them on old tv's.....times a changing

[@hirokurobane9145]

good idea for combining retro tech with the new ones

[@spazzman90]

Wow. I'm amazed at how clean the image looked on the Wega on your final result vs. when you first test plugged it in. Great looking!

[@talaminia]

very cool idea for emulating old retro games, c64, nes, snes, sega

[@ninjamaster3453]

some of those old systems were scart ready

[@jusb1066]

he meant emulating, no-one wants to use a real c64 and wait 20 minutes for a tape to load!

[@afrog2666]

20? Small game then lol :p

[@denzel387]

crt;s they batter for old retro games Ciscodude

[@Orionrobots]

The sound that it made when the boot lines scrolled reminds me of stuff on the Commodore 64 - I used to get sounds like that. I remember having a local video repair shop fix my modulator for it a couple of times.

[@douro20]

The colour-graded box on the right hand side of the screen means the Raspberry Pi is experiencing lower than normal voltage input.

[@mvShooting]

That old TV is awesome! It looks very "futuristic." I mean, it looks like what people thought it would be the future in that era.

[@blacknovaentertainment]

I love this idea. Upcycling old junk is always fun. There should be plenty of room in that TV set. When you get over your cold, you should hide the Pi inside the TV in such a way as to only have interface ports protruding. Also, can the HDMI port on the Pi be used as an input in case you ever want to use the TV with anything else? Get well soon.

[@chrisloUSA]

I’d love to get an old RCA Console TV and hook a Raspberry Pi to it for some retro gaming, maybe even get some old consoles for one. Thankfully RCA made those TV’s into the 1990’s so it would be easy to find one with the RCA style of connectors, which will make connecting a Raspberry Pi easy.

[@mrebholz]

I remember back in 1981, my stepfather had a similar looking blaupunkt tv set on an even more stylish monopod - I loved it. He even had a blaupunkt radio in his spacy citroen with a remote on a metal flex arm (Schwanenhals in German), together with the futuristic instruments of the luxurious citroen it looked like coming straight from outer space. He was also a chain-smoker, lighting cigarettes on cigarettes, giving the interior this yellowish sticky filth --> that ofcourse killed the atmosphere. Thanks for your video - bringing back memories ;-)

[@dennisp.2147]

BNC connectors for composite are fairly common for studio or surveillance monitors.

[@luaking84]

Ah memories of pulling modulators out of things and running various signals down them.

[@matthewjenkins1161]

Great video. I've run my 1971 B&W portable on a Pi through a modulator. There is a setting in the config text to output in monochrome instead of colour, which gives a better picture on B&W sets.

[@merman93]

So very interesting! I feel very nostalgic. The music during Star Wars SNES game play along with video reminded me of playing these games with friends after the school day ended. Thank you so much.

[@mattx5499]

I think it's a nice idea, especially when the certain TV has nice, pleasant to the eye picture. You can always play old movies that way and feel the old day's vibe. Even playing retro games through emulators make them look like they supposed to look. I miss my Commodore color monitor when I play Amiga and 8/16-bit era games on emulators. Too bad it's power supply died and before it died the picture was often shrinking into thin horizontal line and I had to hit it to bring the picture back. ;D

[@Manawyrm]

top! Kleiner Hinweis: das Regenbogen-Rechteck oben rechts in der Ecke heißt, dass dem Pi die Spannung einbricht. Du möchtest evtl. Mal ein anderes Netzteil testen :)

[@ikemkrueger]

3:34 Some DVI jacks support digital sound input. But that's really rare and works seldom.

[@Pinguinomannaro74]

Really cool! I love this type of projects! They give a new life to old devices like your 80's TV! Great!

[@MaximErased]

Now I have the answers I needed! Thank you very much for very clear explanation!

[@zaiux]

Seems like the 1st knob (big one) is for the superheterodyne receiver tuning, then the 2nd one must be for the PLL freq selector

[@ExStaticBass]

WIth the ability to emulate not only old NES roms, but SNES and Playstation discs as well I can see why this would be cool. While I'm not quite that nostalgic I know a lot of people who are. Personally I'm fine with playing them on a newer screen with far less NTSC artifacts than an older CRT TV. Like you, I have also used old converters out of VCRs though in some cases I just plugged the device into the VCRs inputs and used it as a converter. I know that's not terribly exciting or energy efficient but when you don't have a place to work on things like this or the time to do it. Well I'm sure you can guess how we all make sacrifices sometimes. Great video. Keep them coming.

[@thelavian4481]

That was fantastic - well done!

[@Exowave1]

hello, I'm a beginner to all of this raspberry pi stuff, and i just started trying to hook up my raspberry pi to a crt recently. I've been getting frustrated at the lack of straightforward information on what to do or why I need to do certain things (granted I might not be looking hard enough or in the right places, but nevertheless) and it's really gratifying to see something that explains a bit better what I should be doing in a way that I understand, so thank you very much!

[@Landrew0]

That intro music raises my blood pressure.

[@EgoShredder]

At least it was not hip hop or rap....or club muzak.

[@danielsargent5695]

I saw an RF modulator at the thrift store and wondered if it could be used for anything. I guess so

[@cassvirgillo3395]

Hi TPAI, I hope all is good with you & Cologne is treating you well. I like all your video's, always something of interest. Gosh, it been that long, I was 20 in 1980. Just a couple of blinks my friend. All the best to you, Happy Fall, C.

[@landlockedviking]

man this has quite a back to the future feel!

[@northof-62]

Great stuff! Love the mix of new and old.

[@geoffcrabbe4323]

Well done mate ... love this stuff..keep up the good work .....

[@lelandclayton5462]

Here in the states we didn't have SCART, only Composite and UF F-Type until the early 2000s when LCD TVs hit the scene and got DVI and HDMI. From the late 30s onward into the late 80s the TV the Antenna section was typically two screws with U connectors to screw on antenna leads or for Cable TV/VCR/Beta we used adapter that I think pretty much had a resistor inside. Over time it was replaced with a single F-Type connector so the label would state "Antenna/Cable In" One point I had to use a VCR to get composite input to my CRT TV when I was a kid. The refresh rate was awful for video games. Now since there isn't any analog video signal the Cable and Satellite companies use real strict cable grades and often get pissed off when they have to replace a cheap cable that was from walmart. These days a lot of people for nostalgia reasons are taking old CRT TVs and converting them to use RGB. Also a few even collect rare Vacuum Tube TVs from the Late 30's upwards to the Early 70's. I myself have been playing around with some old CRT TVs. A while back I bought a portable color TV from a thrift store for about 10 bucks. I'm thinking to convert it to RGB and toss on my old Super Nintendo or just leave it as is and get a old composite Camera and use it as a security monitor.

[@GeeTheBuilder]

Just found your channel. And glad I did, love your videos. You have a great way of explaining things. Im a big fan of the German people (I'm in the UK)

[@OzDracula]

I wish I could get a TV like that in Australia. It looks awesome.

[@hadireg]

awesome, it reminds me some yeaaars ago when I took a Zx spectrum modulator for injecting composite signal!! (y) Thanks!

[@jmartin1885]

Love your stuff man... The TV is gorgeous!!!

[@voltlog]

Nice! I never thought about connecting to an old TV antenna input but it's nice for a retro type project.

[@annbjer]

Great informative video, looking forward to see if i could get retropie running on an old Brionvega as soon as i get my hand on one! Thanks for posting!

[@MrGnidlih]

Just saying I LOVE your accent:) And these videos are great. Thanx.

[@williamwazere]

That's got a serious RoboCop vibe to it. Very fun stuff.

[@jpsworkshop2544]

Thats a fantastic old TV, great video again!!

[@Drew-Dastardly]

I have to say I would just open the TV and tap into the video stage after the I.F. demodulator and have my own composite input wired to the back of the set.

[@mickcarson8504]

Hello there, Genius! I can't believe you've done all this. Should I do that to my 26 inch TV I still have because it was only two years old when I purchased it and then the digital age came in and didn't get rid of it. It still work great with a digital set top box.

[@johnvaldez8830]

I like the idea of reusing these old TVs for a bit of fun. Very cool idea and I think it would be great to add some sort of remote control. Maybe have the RPi in a remote ...I'm not sure where I am going with this idea, but it sounds fun too. Excellent!

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

Sorry for the nitpicking, but the CCFL LCD monitor isn't 4:5 (it would be 5:4 actually, except in "pivot mode" rotated around 90°), but it looks more like a standard 4:3 model as they were quite common up until 2008 or so.

[@arthurdent8091]

Very nice video. Very well laid out. Not silly at all. Get better soon.

[@wisteela]

Great stuff. Yes, you can use that BNC input.

[@mrmcquade7890]

Totally cool! Love the old Vega TV..so cool :)

[@glennwih]

Oh the memories...great video.

[@_DSch]

Lol i took (almost) exactly the same vcr apart an couple of weeks ago. The rf modulator must be used with an MCU and has some quite interesting options, also on the pcb there is an 7 segment driver that can be used with an rpi ;)

[@jhnoakez]

Thank you for this, I have been wondering how to make a composite out signal work with an antique television!!

[@SenileOtaku]

What about the setting you mentioned for redirecting sould out when you do a HDMY/VGA converter? That was the most critical information I needed.

[@AdamosDad]

I really enjoy your videos that reuse retro equipment, like this one and the Fallout style computer.

[@TheloniousBosch]

Get well soon! I love your channel.

[@kyle8952]

If you have the schematic and block diagram of the TV it's often a better choice to inject composite video directly to the video amp. Of course you have to make sure your TV is isolated from wall power. Though saying that, the kit built RF modulator is impressively good quality.

[@Muscleduck]

Very interesting! I have an old door intercom with a CRT but have no manual. I do see a piece of coax cable the electrician left on a connector, so that's probably my best bet to get any image on this thing.

[@willemkossen]

This was very interesting! Thank you!!

[@MaxBrainDevices]

Amazing work I realy love this tv make me fell young again.

[@persephoneolympia3078]

awesome :) ive watched what must be hundreds of videos on this but its not sunk in, yet thanks to you, i understand it as silly as that sounds >.< thanks! so happy right now lol!

[@MrTabs64]

Great vid - I really like old tech. stuff.

[@larrymaxwell7181]

you have to put a pot between the composite and the RF modulator. Internally, VCRs use a little less voltage on the AV signals.

[@zx8401ztv]

That wasnt a silly idea, its interesting to people that have never been exposed to older technology :-). The Old 1980 tv could of had a mod to allow connection of composite video, the i.f from the downmix tuner is seperated into two r.f bands by filters, audio and video. Thats where you can jump in with a switch lol.

[@fernandoz6329]

Absolutely great video! Currently too many owners are dumping their older tv's (mine included), this could be a new use for old devices.

[@Engineer9736]

Interesting video! Not that i couldn't have done it, but i probably never will :D Such an old tv is a nice museum piece, but not my interior style.

[@riiwind]

Great video! well edited!

[@Nexfero]

I spent many hours of my childhood playing that starwars game on the SNES... My SNES has an external RF switch on the composite cable coming from the console