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

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by benman94

I use an XMBC server feeding a Raspberry Pi running an XMBC client. The data between the server and client goes over the network like any other data traffic. From there, the Raspberry Pi produces analog video out. PAL or NTSC, colorburst on or off. ...

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.