Did not expect to see a Zenith Healthview CRT TV in the waiting room today.
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Playing around with outputting SECAM on a raspberry pi and I was surprised my workbench TV displayed it. I know it supports NTSC and PAL, but for some reason I thought SECAM didn't work. It doesn't look great - lots of red and blue fringing on details, but the colours are present and accurate.
The multi-system support isn't listed in the manual, nor does it show on the on-screen display. Wild that they just silently threw in a feature like that. Good job, Philips.
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@themaritimegirl I have a few old recordings (all 1980 or older) that do this when switching between the program and the commercials, or between national/network content and local commercials. You can actually hear the head drum in the VCR momentarily lose servo lock.
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@themaritimegirl Also CBC Winnipeg was always bad at timing the local commercials. You would also catch the beginning or end of something.
"I picked up that RCA cable you asked for"