Xref: utzoo comp.graphics.visualization:633 comp.graphics:18339 alt.graphics:145 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!unix1.tcd.ie!chughes From: chughes@unix1.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization,comp.graphics,alt.graphics Subject: Re: Computer to VCR Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 02:23:29 GMT References: <1991May30.072153.17869@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@cs.tcd.ie Followup-To: comp.graphics.visualization Organization: Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1 In <1991May30.072153.17869@sbcs.sunysb.edu> sbarrkum@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (Sereno A. Barr Kumarakulasinghe) writes: >I want to record whats on a computer screen directly onto a VCR. >If the output is in RGB or mono output how would I get about >doing this. >Would one of those thingys that take the computer output and enable it >to be viewed on a TV screen do the trick (what are they called). Modulator? Yep. The one problem you may find is that the modulator outputs at the same frequency as your VCR, in which case you may see a perfect image on the TV, thru the VCR, but the VCR itself is not tuned to the modulator correctly, and so it records an untuned image. There's generally a twiddly bit somewhere which changes the frequence your VCR / the modulator works on. If the mono is composite video (or are you in the states - dunno what output you use if you are), you may be able to plug that straight into your VCR - have a look in the VCR manual if you have a SCART (or any other) socket on the VCR; it might tell you. What I'd love is the circuit for an RGB -> UHF / CVBS modulator, I hear they're trivialish, but they're quite expensive to buy... I'd also want to hook sound into the UHF o/p... posted on behalf of Merlin Hughes (hughesmp@vax1.tcd.ie) --SICK-- You suffer... But why?