How are You Playing Digital Video on Vintage TV's??

[benman94]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Do you get to select the luma only, without the chroma (R-Y and B-Y, Pr and Pb, and such)? With pre-color standard TV sets (before around 1953) the TV probably will give you a full 4MHz of picture resolution. Later B&W sets would low pass filter the video to remove the chroma subcarrier (and higher resolution luma) and make a softer image.

wa2ise,

When the color burst is in the "off" mode, the GPU on the Raspberry Pi ignores the color data. If it's converting a stream with 4:x:y sampling, x and y are discarded; only the luma samples are used. It can, and will, produce a full 4 MHz luma.

I highly recommend folks use a Raspberry Pi Model B Generation 3 to feed vintage sets directly through a B/T (or feed the Raspberry Pi to one of Darryl's converters if you're lucky enough to need one). You can do so much more with the Raspberry Pi than an off the shelf STB, and they're quieter and much more efficient than home theater PC.