[mbates14]

The tuner works but the alignment and audio buzz is definitely off. it needs an alignment with gear that I dont own. This is the only vintage set I own now actually. I used to have a ton of gear and quite a few vintage sets, but unfortunate circumstances happened within the last 10 to 12 years which changed that.

The last time I had touched/restored this set was 2004 or thereabouts, I may even have a thread on it here in this forum somewhere. Same set. I was 18 at the time. I am 32 now and been through 1 major theft instance, and 3 moves. Wow time flies...

Plus these days, modulators and anything RF/Cable related is getting harder and harder to find that connect to modern standards. I have a DirecTV box that has only HDMI and a special proprietary plug to get standard A/V. But no RF anymore. Genie model I think?

My thought is use those little Audio/Video extenders that radio shack used to sell, I have a set. they have S-Video as well, so that gives me an opportunity to get the luminance signal and not have the chroma dot-crawl on a B&W Set. Hook one at the DTV box using the A/V out, and hook the other at the TV.

Anyways, OTA is out because I live in the mountains and there is only 1 station that is receivable currently. The cable system finally switched over to all digital and encryption, the DTA adapters are not available, can only get the full size box. But I already have DTV so that doesnt matter.

These days as an embedded developer and software programmer, I thought about setting up a Raspberry Pi as a media server and player that has all my old shows and programs on it, and then I can let it roll on the TV, All self-contained. :-) I might cheap out and use XBMC/Kodi here, or write something myself. Havent decided yet. If I do go that route, then I will add a power circuit so the Pi can turn the TV on and off. So when I shut down the media software, it will turn off the TV :-)