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1) CRT's with unitized guns, where only the cathodes were separate for the three colors; 2) cheaper to have only 3 high-voltage video output transistors instead of 4 3) with ICs: definitely cheaper to do all matrixing to RGB in the IC - also, at this point, the chroma and luma gain controls could be electonically ganged so they go up and down together without changing color saturation when the "picture" control is turned. I can't remember if I ever saw a design implementing a "picture" control with mechanically ganged "contrast" and "color" controls - anybody remember such a thing? |
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Back to the drawing board. I located the vintage matrix alignment procedure that includes adjusting L141, the inductor in the hue control circuit. This is where a course adjustment to the hue control takes place. These main and alternate procedures seem to use the old non-luma-progression color bars Old_TV_Nut referred to earlier, who must also be the one to ask this question: ten years ago I worked on military stuff that used multiplying DAC's to contol what amounted to audio-frequency-range levels; is that how the function is or was implemented in TV for audio gain, contrast, and whatever? Is it even a good question? Last edited by Pete Deksnis; 09-07-2005 at 06:05 AM. |
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Pete,
Did I miss it in your description? There is one tweak in the demod, the I gain control, which will modify the amount of +/- I signal used by the matrix adders to generate R, G, and B signals. Just one more independant varable in the equation.
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[Start of brag] One of my favorite inventions is a three-way I did with two other guys at Zenith (for monochrome chassis), where we stacked Gilbert cells, and using a simple external RLC filter as a simultaneous lowpass filter, differentiator, and second differentiator, did contrast control, switchable gated noise reduction, and video peaking control, in one swell foop [end of brag]. |
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CT-100 Update from my site's Restoration Page
Have been working on the restored CT-100 recently to prep it for display in my living room. After extensive tuning and testing, got it buttoned up a few days ago, including the screen under the chassis, a small fan near the back to aid in dispelling heat, and wood screws in the back cover.
I cleaned and polished the mahogany veneer, tightened four wing nuts that lock the cabinet lid, and then turned it on and damn, three minutes later the screen went dim. Remove the back, then troubleshoot to find the second video amplifier (a 6AN8) causing the headache. Pitch it in the trash. Put in a replacement. Button it all up again. Get out the NOS fine tuning knob I’ve been saving for this occasion and, after first testing the installation procedure on a spare CTC2 chassis, crack the plastic on the new knob trying to install it on the restored chassis. Cuss. Mix some epoxy. Stick it back together, and use a worn knob for now. Okay, all this sets the stage for what I’ve been working for since 1999, but intensely since last April: eyeball 1953 NTSC color! I think it happened. After mocking the WB earlier on AudioKarma, WPIX channel 11 came through with (pun intended of course) flying colors! South Park. Never watched it. Some of my thirty-something acquaintances love to quote it. Don’t care about it. But what color! Chrominance charts indicate the extended green capability of the 1953 standard. My eyes believe the green on the character’s hat is in that extended area of the 1953 spec. A simultaneous display of the program on a high-definition direct-view CRT receiver in the NTSC mode was strikingly less vibrant. The HDTV serves as a standard — a stable source of color used in the initial alignment of the color AFC circuits of the CT-100 for example. During the past several weeks, I would adjust the CT-100 to match the colors of the HD set. Not the brightness of course, but particularly subtle pastels and varying hues of violet. It’s a darn fine HD television set. But for this experience, which reproduces a program on two different sets driven from the same antenna, the HD set displayed completely lackluster green hues for that character’s hat compared to the CT-100. Yellow was also visually different. A suggestion of which appears as this guy’s mittens. |
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The color resolution of hdtv is supposed to be more than twice that of NTSC, so next time you should crank up a true HDTV signal on that hdtv set if you want to see the CT-100 get even more green... with envy ; )
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Books and charts say the color gamut is greater with 1953 NTSC, as I interpret them anyway. My gnawing itch wonders if WB11 actually transmitted the video with wide-enough gamut to make the effect I saw on the CT-100 vs. the HDTV. I wonder if the cartoon makers had their software set to 1953 NTSC. I wonder if the NTSC generator in my VCR is spitting out a color bar signal good enough to calibrate the CT-100. I wonder, as I wander…! Oh well, only 63 more days to the next Rose Bowl. Last edited by Pete Deksnis; 10-30-2005 at 09:02 AM. |
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Everyone uses VCR's for the RF modulation on channel 3 or 4! I can't remember the last time I used a VCR. Both my 630TS and CTC9 Felton has VHF tuners, and there are no VHF stations in my area. I was honestly going to buy one of those RF modulator boxes, but use my satellite receiver for the time being. Most newer model RCA directv boxes output full feild color bar by pressing the menu and info bottons on the receiver at the same time, and it has RF output too. I'd use my UHF to VHF converter for off air reception, but I guess the only way to use it is if I connect an amplified antenna to it's input since it has no RF amp?
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Gorgeous, Pete!
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Hey Pete,
Very nice set up on your CT-100. The color looks great and the convergence looks spot on. Congratulations. -Steve D.
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<<My gnawing itch wonders if WB11 actually transmitted the video with wide-enough gamut to make the effect I saw on the CT-100 vs. the HDTV. I wonder if the cartoon makers had their software set to 1953 NTSC. I wonder if the NTSC generator in my VCR is spitting out a color bar signal good enough to calibrate the CT-100. I wonder, as I wander…!>>
yup unless it is calibrated pretty good as far as color, you could always be seeing just more green due to off-value resistors, coil adjsutment issues, variations in drive of the guns etc. in the color section of the set. The potential for that old tube to display true NTSC is one thing... how accurately that old chassis is going to present it as it currently sits is another. All my old sets seem to have tendency to play up certain colors over others (mainly red) but not enough for me to go in and perfectly realign the color section, plus I don't really have the equipment necessary. |
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On the subject of pictures on working CT-100s... Steve D. demonstrated his CT-100 for me one day back in '84 or '85, and that was the first time I ever saw a CT-100 turned on. Well, the show that we happend to get was a live news feed from the McMassacre (in progress at that moment) in Chula Vista, CA. A rather macabre way to remember my first CT-100 viewing, but it is a sad and real part of history in California. We sat glued to the little vivid image, maybe for a moment overlooking the fact that it was a CT-100 at all. The CT-100 was, for an instant, restored to its original purpose as a medium of communication of sorts. I wonder if Steve remembers that day??? Deep thoughts
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It should be remembered that all other hues on the CT-100 screen eyeball-matched those on the ‘standard’ HDTV screen. Only the green stood out and only on that character’s hat. Here’s another CT-100 screen shot taken the same night. There are three different areas of green; two on the hat and one weird snow-capped mountain whose base is green seen through the now-open door. That green matches the HDTV green. So, I’m speculating for now that the striking green on the character’s hat is a result of wider gamut and not some unusual peaking or weird spurious oscillation somewhere in the CTC2 chassis. But I could be wrong. And so my next step is to rearrange my living room over the next couple of days, time permitting, with the CT-100 to the right of the HDTV. Then develop some photographic evidence supporting or debunking current speculation. Was chatting with John Folsom yesterday and recalled that in September I reported the same effect as here. That time it was the eyes of a cartoon character that were vivid on the CT-100 but not in control images. Here it is: “There's a commercial playing for a Lilo&StitchII (sp?) DVD. The bug-eyed character in the commercial on the CT-100 has bright, intense, large lime-green eyes that pop off the screen at you. Interestingly, in an A-B comparison between the CT-100 and my 38-in. widescreen CRT HD set, there's no similar effect on the HD set, although there may be setup issues to consider. Just came back from seeing the DVD at Target. The eyes in the print version were pale blue and didn't even appear to have been designed to draw attention --nothing like the TV ad to my eyes anyway.” |
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