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Studio Rebuild #9: Some Analog Video Basics
While everything is out of the racks, a good opportunity to talk a bit about the Analog NTSC video signal. Using a patch panel to connect various signals to a Waveform Monitor, Vectorscope, and color monitor. Some basics of reading waveforms and vectors of standard color bars. I was trying a crazy head-mount for my cell phone. It works OK when I keep glancing at the display, but its hard to use both hands to show something, watch what you #39;re doing, talk and make sense (hopefully!) and pay attention to what the camera is seeing all at the same time. Mostly it worked. I #39;m sure there are TV engineers that might explain things a bit differenty, or might even disagree with my explanations. My intent is to just show what the equipment is and does. This equipment cost thousands of dollars back in the day, was built with practically aerospace quality, and is available for pennies on EBay. But most people don #39;t understand what it does or figure its obsolete and irrelevant. Especially some of the people selling it on EBay! But you do have to be very careful, you can end up paying a lot for a control panel but without the rackmount electronics and interconnect cables it takes to make it work! If they can #39;t sell it most sellers just send it to have the gold fingers cut off the circut cards and connectors and the rest gets chopped up and put into the landfill. To me, thats a crying shame! Thats why I hope by explaining some of this, I #39;ll spark some interest in this old gear! If you ...From:Dave SiegViews:0 0ratingsTime:13:53More inScience Technology

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