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 there's gotta be rf-composite converters. Or just use a VCR
@Felthry weird, it makes much less sense that way around
@noiob I don't know what the market was like in Europe but over here a majority or at least significant minority of households wouldn't have upgraded their TV since maybe changing from a black and white one to a color one. a lot of people still *had* black and white tvs in the 70s when the first VCRs were being made, even
a lot of tvs sold even into the 90s didn't have composite input, just RF, and everyone had a VCR with composite input by then so they didn't need to
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@noiob remember also that SCART was never a thing over here. the only connector most TVs had was an F connector for 75 Ω coaxial RF input (or on really old ones, four screw terminals for twin-lead VHF/UHF)
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@noiob over here, VCRs had composite *input*, and TVs typically didn't until approximately the 90s, so you would use the VCR as a composite-to-RF converter, and it couldn't be used the other way around
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