YSTV's home-made Devices

Old page

http://old.ystv.co.uk/internal/docs/index.php?page=YSTVUserManuals

The Mux

32 in 4 out video router

Composite to Scart

Bodge lead with power for auto-switching TV's

S-Video to Composite

little bodge cables

Three Composite along Cat-5

Active video sender for 3 channels

Dirty Little Box

Turns 50hz RGB into composite

Dirty, in this case, because it's not very sophisticated. This will convert a 50Hz, interlaced RGB video signal (like the output of a Comodore / Acorn / BBC computer) to a composite video signal. It doesn't do any resolution changing or frame rate conversion, so if your input video isn't at the right rate (and most PC VGA cards won't do the right rate) then the output will go to pieces. As a result this isn't the most useful piece of kit in the station.

VGA DA

Distribution Amp for Computer screens

S-Vid switcher

Passive 4 to 1 switcher

S-Vid to Composite exchange

An Active convertor with filtering

S-Vid DA

Distribution Amp for S-video

VT C-E switch

2 way composite switch

SpiDer

PC based system for controlling hardware like the netmux.

Sceduling

Database driven interface for Spider, controlled via the website

Monitor Rack

Where we hide all the pictures (no-one knows they're there!)

Camera / Rifle-Mic

After many problems with using the rifle mic with Sony HDV and Canon DV cameras, this page has been created.