Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfcdj!hpfcrlm!myers From: myers@hpfcrlm.HP.COM (Bob Myers) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: NTSC->Composite Message-ID: <17660176@hpfcrlm.HP.COM> Date: 19 Jun 91 16:12:56 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO Lines: 19 >Hi.Does anyone have plans for an NTSC to composite converter? I would need >something that takes coax VHF output from a Cable box and converts it to a >composite video and audio signal. Sort of a VCR without the..well..VCR. >Perhaps Radio Electronics ran something like this? "Composite video and audio" IS baseband NTSC. What you're looking for is something that takes the NTSC-modulated signal on channel 3 or 4 coming out of the VCR/cable box and converts it to baseband - in other words, a tuner. Tuners are available all over da place - you can pick 'em up from the surplus stores for a song (and maybe a dance or two, depending on the quality of your singing). Feed a solid-state tuner a little bit of the right voltage(s), and you'll be able to pick the video and audio right off (usually from separate jacks - or did you want to leave the audio in the video signal?). Bob Myers KC0EW HP Graphics Tech. Div.| Opinions expressed here are not Ft. Collins, Colorado | those of my employer or any other myers@fc.hp.com | sentient life-form on this planet.