A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!
What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.
Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.
“created” and “in mainstream use” are two different things… composite video has been around for a very long time, but composite video on consumer electronics really only started to get popular maybe starting in the late-80’s. I worked at a Radio Shack in the early 00’s and was still explaining to people how to use it because their old VCR only had coax and they used it on channel 3 or 4. The fact that “just match the colours” was so confusing to these people was … well… yeah.
Does this answer your question?
Also I don’t think composite is that old tbf.
Ooh, I get to trot out my console humblebragging picture again.
A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!
What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.
Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.
Created in 1954–1956 in wiki is correct
“created” and “in mainstream use” are two different things… composite video has been around for a very long time, but composite video on consumer electronics really only started to get popular maybe starting in the late-80’s. I worked at a Radio Shack in the early 00’s and was still explaining to people how to use it because their old VCR only had coax and they used it on channel 3 or 4. The fact that “just match the colours” was so confusing to these people was … well… yeah.