Storing Video as Sound - Slow Scan TV on Cassette Tape

[@MylesSmith-q4y]

Narrow Bandwidth Television is different to SSTV. NBTV has moving pictures with much lower line resolutions and half the frame rates of standard television 12 to 15 images per second.

[@thecrappysign]

Finally a video where I could put digital information on a cassette!

[@fahrenheit1391]

Will be really interesting to see the experiment with video on audio cassette, like 32lines NBTV. I read and saw examples of enthusiasts who recorded fragments of a television signal on cassettes, the left channel for video, the right channel for audio

[@indieseoulPSVR2]

Fisher Price made a camera that records black and white video and sound to audio cassettes by running the tape at 9 times the normal speed. It was called the PXL 2000 but I'm sure you already know about it.

[@VintageElectronicsChannel]

I wanted one of those as a kid. When I finally got one a few years ago, it was intriguing, but disappointing.

[@yafilmDOTcom]

@@VintageElectronicsChannel I have the suspicion that if a rotating head (at high speeds) were used on those units instead of the stationary head they came with, it would have been possible to store videos at a normal tape playback speeds, plus perhaps even at higher resolutions.

[@Synthematix]

You can record video and data to a tape with analog to digital converters, basically that's how old computers worked

[@JonDoe-zi3mh]

That was hard on the ear lol, but a great demo. SSTV works at 3KHz, but it's possible to record up to around 15KHz on a good quality analog cassette, so it would be interesting to see the picture download around 5 times faster using 15KHz modulation.

[@VintageElectronicsChannel]

It's reminiscent of fingernails on a chalkboard for sure! There are numerous SSTV modes, definitely many to experiment with.

[@Ts6451]

The channel Janus Cycle made a video about using the software narrow band simple color to store video on audio tapes a few years ago, I would post the video ID, but I already did in a reply to this that doesn't seem to have posted, perhaps it was caught by some filter. But if you search for Recording Video Images on Audio Cassettes you should find it.