Help with cartravision

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Richard D

I bought one from Olson electronics in the 1970's and was able to get it to work using a small B/W Sony TV monitor with video/audio out and used a modulator to send the COLOR signal to any color TV. The Sony monitor had a wide enough bandwidth to receive color. I highly recommened you get hold of someone who has a working one and will dub them for you, Even tapes recorded on the playback machine would have hooking problems at the top of the screen. You need someone familiar with the skip field system AVCO used.
Good Luck
Richard

I agree that finding a working one would be the best bet.

One note of encouragement: "Hooking" at the top of the picture due to horizontal sync mistiming was visible mainly due to the slow horizontal AFC in TV sets at the time (done for best off-air performance). Later TV sets (and VCR/DVD recorder dual decks) have been built with faster AFC to accomodate the horizontal mistiming that may occur with any home VTR. So, I expect you could get reasonable playback into a modern TV set or DVD recorder.