while our parents were visiting recently we got out the atari 2600 and played a couple games with our dad (it was his atari when he was a kid and he thoroughly beat us at all of them despite not having played in probably over thirty years), and it has me kinda wanting to try streaming some atari games but: how the *fuck* do you video capture the output when it's RF only? this was well before any TV had any input other than twin-lead RF for an antenna
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@Felthry If you can turn that RF video out into a coax connection or a set of RCA connections, there's plenty of antenna/RCA to HDMI converters out there.

@LexYeen we have a capture card that can do composite, component, s-video, and HDMI, so the problem is getting the RF to one of those
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@Felthry Hmmmm. You'll need an RF modulator that outputs something your card can interpret, then.

@Felthry Good news is, composite and component are standards that haven't changed much if at all in the entire time I've been alive.

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