Analogue TV Closedown in Paris Region

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

"1000-line" system experiments in 1947.

Looks like a modern HDTV luma signal, at 1080i 50 fields a second would be nearly compatible with a set built to receive these experiments.

Some HDTV receiver boxes may have hackable firmware to convert the digital HD signal to output a luma signal that would produce the old 809i (IIRC that was the number of lines) high res standard France had years ago. This would be difficult to do, to reverse engineer the existing firmware, modify it correctly and burn it back to the box, and hope you don't "brick" it.

[jhalphen]

Hi wa2ise,

you wrote:
"Some HDTV receiver boxes may have hackable firmware to convert the digital HD signal to output a luma signal that would produce the old 809i (IIRC that was the number of lines) high res standard France had years ago. This would be difficult to do, to reverse engineer the existing firmware, modify it correctly and burn it back to the box, and hope you don't "brick" it."

Such a device exists, type HDFury into a search engine. Will output Full res YUV & RGB.

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France