Using Megadrive with newish telly

Waterlily24

Well, it worked for while but when I went to use it again it wouldn't work lol. I haven't had the time to try and tune it in again yet but have got the new cables so that might help.

Thanks once again for all your help.

almillar

Waterlily24 - maybe when you did the tuning you just saw the picture, started playing, but hadn't saved the tuning?

fightsback - Thanks, no I didn't know the finer details of how all that works, and I've learnt something. And yes, I do know that AM, FM and UHF are all on the electromagnetic spectrum. What I asked you was, why did you bring up FM modulation, when everyone else was discussing UHF.
Your diagram shows the inner workings of what I've been calling an 'analogue TV tuner'. You've banged on that TVs don't contain these any more, I've said they do. You were wrong there. Please don't go round telling people TVs don't have analogue tuners, 'necessary decoding circuitry for analogue demodulation' (same thing) or any other term you want to use for the same thing.

Fightsback

almillar wrote: »

Waterlily24 - maybe when you did the tuning you just saw the picture, started playing, but hadn't saved the tuning?

fightsback - Thanks, no I didn't know the finer details of how all that works, and I've learnt something. And yes, I do know that AM, FM and UHF are all on the electromagnetic spectrum. What I asked you was, why did you bring up FM modulation, when everyone else was discussing UHF.
Your diagram shows the inner workings of what I've been calling an 'analogue TV tuner'. You've banged on that TVs don't contain these any more, I've said they do. You were wrong there. Please don't go round telling people TVs don't have analogue tuners, 'necessary decoding circuitry for analogue demodulation' (same thing) or any other term you want to use for the same thing.

Sigh, you still don't understand signal modulation and what FM means 0/10

FM is not a waveband range but a means of encoding a signal onto an electromagnetic wave, it's an electronics terminology latterly adopted by FM radio broadcasts that were once an amplitude modulated signal but were then later frequency modulated. UHF uses frequency modulation.

See me after school.

almillar

FM means frequency modulation. AM means amplitude modulation.
You brought both these terms into the thread, with no need.
OP has an RF modulator from a MegaDrive that they were trying to to connect to their TV. I helped them tune it in, you told them they couldn't do it, since their TV wasn't equipped, and they needed to buy cables. You'll get a higher score than me in physics, but a lower score in moneysaving and helpfulness.
I'm happy to admit lack of knowledge, you ignore yours.

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almillar wrote: »

FM means frequency modulation. AM means amplitude modulation.
You brought both these terms into the thread, with no need.
OP has an RF modulator from a MegaDrive that they were trying to to connect to their TV. I helped them tune it in, you told them they couldn't do it, since their TV wasn't equipped, and they needed to buy cables. You'll get a higher score than me in physics, but a lower score in moneysaving and helpfulness.
I'm happy to admit lack of knowledge, you ignore yours.

It's not that a new TV, you will note from the picture it has a VGA (analogue) socket which is now officially obsoleted this year. This information was published 5 years ago:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/VGA-to-Be-Killed-by-2015-Intel-AMD-Display-Manufacturers-Plan-171457.shtml

Technology moves on.

edit:

NB Samsung stopped putting VGA on TVs in 2012

http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?modelname=UN40EH5000F&idx=404141&

almillar

As you say, it turned out not to be that new a TV. Makes your incorrect 'they don't fit analogue TV tuners anymore' statement, even less relevant to the question.

Technology moves on

I know, I love it. But this thread is about a Megadrive!

Fightsback

almillar wrote: »

As you say, it turned out not to be that new a TV. Makes your incorrect 'they don't fit analogue TV tuners anymore' statement, even less relevant to the question.

I know, I love it. But this thread is about a Megadrive!

Connected to new technology

almillar

Everything's relative, but you are the one who pointed out that the TV isn't in fact new:

It's not that a new TV, you will note from the picture it has a VGA (analogue) socket which is now officially obsoleted this year.

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almillar wrote: »

Everything's relative, but you are the one who pointed out that the TV isn't in fact new:

Mega drive first produced in 1989 when TV's spewed x-rays, weighed a tonne, looked like goldfish bowls, kept the room warm and made the leccy meter spin like a roundabout.



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