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4431621 No.4431621 [Reply] [Original]

So guys, If I were to buy a vintage computer with an RF modulator, could I just plug into the RF input on my LCD TV?

>> No.4431625

>>4431621
yes
rf looks pretty decent even these days thanks to no more interference from TV networks

>> No.4431636

>>4431625
Sweet

>> No.4432375

Just get the bleeding composite cable, you cheap fuck.

>> No.4432384

>>4431625
RF has NEVER looked good on anything - EVER. plug it in to a modern screen and it still looks like fucking garbage. you don't know what you're talking about.

>>4431621
let's say the c64 is the machine you're talking about, the RF modulator in it is renowned for being cheap, noisy and terrible. thankfully those machines have a composite out via a DIN socket at the back of it. anybody still using RF in 2017 should have their head examined. (unless they're connecting it up to a tv that has no other inputs - a really old set).

>> No.4432573

>>4432375
I'd say he could make one for a buck but we both know he can't.

>> No.4432575

My dad had to buy a video stabilizer box because his C64's RF modulator caused the picture on his TV to roll.

>> No.4432583

>>4431621
If your TV had an analog tuner, you can connect it to your tv. If not, can’t.

>> No.4432981

>>4432384
So I can just use a DIN-to-Composite cable, and use the composite port? I seriously didni't know any of this, thats why I'm asking.

>> No.4432987
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4432987

>>4432384
RF looks good now

>> No.4433006

SOME RF looks pretty good. My 5200 was astonishingly good over RF but it has a very strange RF adapter. That led me to acquiring a number of thrift store modern low-loss phono coax cables (thick orange phono cables made for surround sound, often included with things and discarded) with simple "phono to f-type" adapters. They work wonders on some systems but what Anon said is true the C64 has bad RF right out of the console

>> No.4433040

>>4432384
>RF has NEVER looked good on anything - EVER. plug it in to a modern screen and it still looks like fucking garbage. you don't know what you're talking about.
Maybe you should try it instead of repeating age old information from a time when you only had access to shitty TVs and the air was full of interference.

>>4432987
Oh, he already got BTFO.

>> No.4433045

>>4432981
If we are talking about the C64.
Then yes, it outputs chroma/luma and standard composite over it's video port.
You can get cables for it on eBay for a few bucks from Chinkland.

>> No.4433058

>>4432384
>RF modulator in it is renowned for being cheap, noisy and terrible.
>>4433006
>C64 has bad RF right out of the console
oh it's americans
the 8565 in PAL looked really nice for RF

>> No.4433195

>>4433058
>oh it's americans
>the 8565 in PAL looked really nice for RF

It's not a PAL vs NTSC thing. There were a couple dozen variants of RF modulator in the C64. Each region the computer was sold in used different ones. So perhaps you've seen one of the better ones in use.

>> No.4434883

RF is shit, don't do it, OP.