Bought an HDTV receiver box today and TV modulator to feed vintage TV sets

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Originally Posted by Charlie

The colored RCA jacks (green, blue, red) are labled Y, Pb, and Pr. Since this DVD is currently connected to my CM roundie, I unplugged the RCA Video Out (yellow jack) and plugged in the RCA component Y (green jack). PRESTO... A perfect black and white picture!

I've wondered about that but never tried it. I have read that most of the interference comes from the color burst, but this method would also remove the chroma information from the video. I think after color was common, they just built b/w sets with no high frequency response in the video amplifier to avoid the chroma interference. On older sets capable of a really sharp b/w picture, the interference would be worse.

wa2ise- How is the overall quality of the video? There is no over-the-air HDTV where I live yet. The quality of over-the-air analog here is pretty bad. I had high hopes that HDTV converters would finally be a high-quality signal source for these older sets. There is another thread going that suggests the quality is terrible. What do you think of yours?

John