Collaborate Disseminate
We are always fascinated when someone can take something and extend it in a clever way without changing the original thing. In the computer world, that’s old hat. New computers …read more Continue reading The Long Strange Trip to US Color TV
Cathode-Retro is a collection of shaders and sample C++ code for reliving the glorious days when graphics were composite video signals displayed on a CRT screen. How? By faking it …read more Continue reading Bringing Back the CRT TV Experience in Software
While browsing AliExpress from his digital basement, [Adrian Black] stumbled upon what seemed like a brand-new mainboard for a CRT television set. He decided to take a gamble and ordered …read more Continue reading New Motherboard Improves Old CRT Television
Today, acronyms such as PAL and initialisms such as NTSC are used as a lazy shorthand for 625 and 525-line video signals, but back in the days of analogue TV …read more Continue reading System Essentially Contradicting American Methods
Generally, when trying to implement some protocol, you are constrained by your hardware and time. But for someone like [EMMIR], that’s not enough. For example, NTSC-CRT is a video signal …read more Continue reading Encoding NTSC With Your Hands Tied
For as visionary as he was, [George Carlin] vastly underestimated the situation with his classic “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV” bit. At least judging by [Ben Eater]’s reverse …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering “The Seven Words (and More) You Can’t Say on TV”
Working on retro computers is rarely straightforward, as [ukmaker] recently found out while designing a new display interface. Their oscilloscope was having trouble triggering on the video signal produced by …read more Continue reading An Oscilloscope Trigger For Vintage Video Processors
Watching television today is a very different experience from that which our parents would have had at our age, where we have high-definition digital on-demand streaming services they had a …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: How Television Worked In The 1950s
A significant event in the history of technology happened yesterday, and it passed so quietly that we almost missed it. The last few remaining NTSC transmitters in the USA finally …read more Continue reading End Of An Era: NTSC Finally Goes Dark In America
Closed captioning on television and subtitles on DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming media are taken for granted today. But it wasn’t always so. In fact, it was quite a struggle for …read more Continue reading History of Closed Captions: The Analog Era