Hi y'all,
I have a 30-yr-old TV, and one of those Commodore 64-in-a-joystick things (top xmas present!). Unfortunately it's only video output is AV, and when my TV was made there wasn't any AV to plug into, so. I imagine that my solution is.... a MODULATOR!
I can't, at the moment, get hold of an old VCR and use that. I've looked up pinouts for Playstation and Xbox modulators (that are pretty cheap). Thing is, the pinouts include chroma/luma on separate wires, as well as RGB and other exotic things.
My new toy is only composite out. One pin on the X-box's video port is composite. But is that one connected to the modulator? Perhaps the modulator uses the chroma / luma signals instead. Could I just wire my composite to the chroma and luma signals together? Just tie them together with a wire? No? Thought not!
Anyway, I live in the UK. The joystick has 6V of batteries in it, so that'd ideally be my power supply. Any ingenious ideas where I can get hold of a modulator? I think Maplin sell one, in a case with sockets and everything, but it's a bit more than I want to spend. A bit more than my new toy is worth!
Also, I'd like to be able to plug my new digital camera, with composite-out, into the same thing. And why not my PC's video-output as well (the proper S-video one, not VGA, duh!).
I would be insanely, ecstatically grateful for a solution here, and cheap is the watchword. Any old suggestions. Maybe I'll get hold of an Atari 2600 and gut the mod from that. Hm. Stupid TV!
Sam.
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