Photos from the 2006 Early Television Convention

[tubesrule]

This is THE web site for info on the mirror screw (and other mechanical tv's)

http://www.televisionexperimenters.com/

Darryl

[Phil Nelson]

I was at the convention and saw the mirror screw demo. These photos are about as good as you can get with a still picture. But they still don't do justice to the live image, which was bright and quite watchable. More than one presenter noted that moving images look much better than still images on lo-res mechanical TVs.

I thought I saw one or two people trying to take video of the mirror screw. I don't know if that would turn out better, or if you'd just get loads of flicker due to different frame rates or whatever.

[Dave S]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

I saw one or two people trying to take video of the mirror screw. I don't know if that would turn out better, or if you'd just get loads of flicker due to different frame rates or whatever.

NTSC video of the mirror screw turns out absolutely wretchedly, as does video coverage of the CBS color system, the Col-R-Tel converter, film projectors, DLP projection and virtually anything else that's not exactly the same frame rate as the camera.

And don't forget The Narrow Bandwidth Television Association

--Dave Sica