Having a little fun tonight . . .

[bigaudioal]

Recorded a YouTube video of one of my vintage sets broadcasting a YouTube video of Bob Anderson restoring a vintage set.

Pretty sure a black hole opened up somewhere in the universe as a result!

http://youtu.be/Bb5CVDom1ew

[Electronic M]

You MANIAC!!!!! You destroyed the universe!

Perhaps I should play your video on one of my color sets, and have others do similar until the original becomes unintelligible...

[bigaudioal]

[DavGoodlin]

Wait...I'm still here.

Was that an Admiral that Bob was checking resistors on???

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Wait...I'm still here.

Was that an Admiral that Bob was checking resistors on???

Yep. I believe it was an Admiral chassis out of a combo unit that he is working on for a fellow collector.

[decojoe67]

How were able to watch a YT vid on your Admiral?! Love to be able to do that.

[Chip Chester]

Not to worry, the black hole only got down to about 20 IRE. We're safe.

Computer with composite (or component) out > RF modulator > voila!

Nice set.

Chip

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

How were able to watch a YT vid on your Admiral?! Love to be able to do that.

I have a Blu ray player hooked up to a 4 way switch which runs into my agile modulator. Trick is to get a Blu ray, with wifi built in that is a few years old. This way it still has the rca composite outputs on it (red/white/yellow). The new Blu rays only have HDMI or HDMI/component outputs. I actually pair my iPhone with the Blu ray player so I can use that to search and play videos. Way better than the built in YT player in the Blu ray. I watched the entire game 7 of the 1952 World Series on my Admiral console set the other night from YT! Was awesome!

I got the Panasonic Blu-ray model DMP-BD871. On eBay from time to time. $30 including shipping. There is a Sony model too that fit the bill, but could not find it.

I also have my DirecTV and a VCR running to my switch as well. My last open input on my switch I'd like to hook my laptop up. But my laptop only has VGA out and headphone output for audio. Has no s-video output. So have to figure out how to get VGA out and headphone audio out to RCA jacks in for my switch.

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by Chip Chester

Not to worry, the black hole only got down to about 20 IRE. We're safe.

Computer with composite (or component) out > RF modulator > voila!

Nice set.

Chip

Thanks. Set took Kamakiri and me working on it for almost a year to get it going. Was a mess!

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by bigaudioal

I have a Blu ray player hooked up to a 4 way switch which runs into my agile modulator. Trick is to get a Blu ray, with wifi built in that is a few years old. This way it still has the rca composite outputs on it (red/white/yellow). The new Blu rays only have HDMI or HDMI/component outputs. I actually pair my iPhone with the Blu ray player so I can use that to search and play videos. Way better than the built in YT player in the Blu ray. I watched the entire game 7 of the 1952 World Series on my Admiral console set the other night from YT! Was awesome!

I got the Panasonic Blu-ray model DMP-BD871. On eBay from time to time. $30 including shipping. There is a Sony model too that fit the bill, but could not find it.

I also have my DirecTV and a VCR running to my switch as well. My last open input on my switch I'd like to hook my laptop up. But my laptop only has VGA out and headphone output for audio. Has no s-video output. So have to figure out how to get VGA out and headphone audio out to RCA jacks in for my switch.

To clarify, I use an agile modulator which puts out a weak analog signal. Mine broadcasts on channel 7. So I feed all my devices to a switch then into the agile modulator. My old sets simply use rabbit ears to pick up the broadcast on channel 7. However if you found a Blu-ray with composite out jacks and fed them directly into an RF modulator and then to your old set that would work fine as well.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by bigaudioal

To clarify, I use an agile modulator which puts out a weak analog signal. Mine broadcasts on channel 7. So I feed all my devices to a switch then into the agile modulator. My old sets simply use rabbit ears to pick up the broadcast on channel 7. However if you found a Blu-ray with composite out jacks and fed them directly into an RF modulator and then to your old set that would work fine as well.

Okay then, but I have just one last question - how can I watch YouTube videos on my vintage TV's? - Haha, just kiddin. Really though, thank's for the great info, but I think I'll stick to using my DVD/VCR output.

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by bigaudioal

Thanks. Set took Kamakiri and me working on it for almost a year to get it going. Was a mess!

A mess is an understatement . Someone at some time tried to chop it up and make a scope out of it. But it was well worth the effort!

[robert1]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

How were able to watch a YT vid on your Admiral?! Love to be able to do that.

there are several ways of achiving this but the best way i found was to just actually burn DVDs of the You-Tube content & play it back on your DVD player. You-Tube has a lot of classic TV shows from the 50's, 60's & 70's as well as classic movies from the 30's up to the 90's. many of them are full length.

i strongly suggest that you use a Linux PC because the process would be actually easer to do then if doing this with a Windows PC.
i do this with Firefox with the Video Download-helper add-on.
i use a easy to use, free, DVD authuring / conversion program called DeVeDe to create the DVD image & use K3B CD/DVD burning program to burn the DVD image to a DVD.
once done, it has great results.

[Chip Chester]

Here's an example of a hardware method of conversion. Composite for color, and maybe the Luminance only signal from s-video for monochrome.

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_i...seq=1&format=2

Chip

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by Chip Chester

Here's an example of a hardware method of conversion. Composite for color, and maybe the Luminance only signal from s-video for monochrome.

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_i...seq=1&format=2

Chip

Chip,

That is a pretty cool item. And, the price is certainly good.

Thanks for sharing the info.