A "replica" pre-war TV project

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

This may sound nutty, but I'd keep the button panels.....And I'd fit a VCR in with the loading mech pointed out the back. ....

I'd use a DVD player, and use the luma video output (either the green jack on the "component video" outputs (set it to 480i) or the luma line of an S video output jack. Then I'd feed this to the video amp of the TV set (skipping over the tuner and IF) and do likewise with the audio.