Well, I'm not really watching it. I could actually care less about it; but, I did turn on my '69 Zenith B&W console using the 14N22 chassis just to see what was going on.

http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff341/radiotvnut/2009_0201superbowltv0009.jpg

EDIT: Wow, I need to break out the dust rag!

I could care less as well. But if I was watching it, It would be on my 52" sharp LCD :banana:

Well, Pittsburgh just won it.

I watched it on my '61 blue Zenith B/W portable on channel 5 in Chicago. I watched in analog with the "rabbit ears"

I'm not a big Super Bowl fan either. I did check out bits and pieces of it on a Sony KV-1311CR.

1982 Zenith System 3 although when I went back on the computer for a short time, a Commodore 1702 monitor from 1984 being fed from a Zenith DTT-900 DTV tuner. I taped the game using a DTT-900 DTV tuner feeding a Sansui VCR (I rescued from the trash) and the TV in my room is a 1998 Zenith 19" BPC.

Sony PVM-2950Q with a VTX-1000. Halftime show only. No wardrobe malfunctions.

Well, I'm not really watching it. I could actually care less about it; but, I did turn on my '69 Zenith B&W console using the 14N22 chassis just to see what was going on.

http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff341/radiotvnut/2009_0201superbowltv0009.jpg

EDIT: Wow, I need to break out the dust rag!

I'd be curious as to what the picture on the Zenith would be like using only the luminance channel of S-video rather than passing the composite video to the modulator.

I'd be curious as to what the picture on the Zenith would be like using only the luminance channel of S-video rather than passing the composite video to the modulator.

If the B&W TV was built before the NTSC color standard was established (1953), then using the luma from S-video would result in not seeing anymore fine checkerboard patterns (the chroma subcarrier) crawling up the screen. But B&W TVs made in the late 50's and the 60's their IF stages were aligned to attenuate video frequencies above about 3Mhz, to suppress the fine checkerboard pattern. Thus you won't see much difference, unless you mess with the set's IF alignment (which I wouldn't recommend, as the "group delay" characteristics would be messed up, making sharp edges in the video be smeared).

I watched the game on a 100% digital system (except for the sound). The "tuner" is a home-built Windows Media Center computer with digital HDMI audio/video output. The video is fed to an Epson digital LCD 1920x1080 front projector with a 92" diagonal screen. The sound (Dolby Digital 5.1) was output from a Yamaha receiver into my 5.1-channel setup of various speakers (front, rear, center and subwoofer). It was a fantastic experience, and the game itself was everything a Super Bowl should be.

I actually did not really watch it truly "live", since we hit the Pause button as needed to replay things or use the bathrooms. (The computer is a two-tuner DVR; I just about never watch uncontrollable TV anymore.)

I watched the last minute of it on a 1998 32" RCA CTC187 using a digital OTA converter box.