In article <tprSj.35586$Rk6.856@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
in Technicolor® <cinerama@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Does anyone know why we haven't seen the creation of a RF Modulator
similar
> to the ones we've been using with our video games, cameras, etc.? You
know
> the type I'm talking about? Inside one end you present a baseband video
> signal, and then, out the other, comes either Channel 3 or Channel 4
which
> you can connect to the set with twin lead or coax with an F connector.
Because 1) we now have a plethora of baseband video inputs, unlike back
in the '70s and '80s, and 2) that would not be just a "modulator", it's
also an MPEG encoder. One which would have to handle different
resolutions if you give it a component input, making it more complicated
and expensive. (And even if you were to give it a digital signal, the
stream would almost certainly have to be reformatted anyhow.)
#1 means this would have relatively low consumer interest (though there
is at least one other in this newsgroup who would has expressed interest
in such a thing) and #2 means it's not just a small board with a few
cheap analog components, so it's not going to be some trivial $25 thing.
Which means even less consumer interest, and therefore even higher price.
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