Ossc pro – RF cable on legacy av in?

[Tsukiko]

Hi,

I thought I’d ask since the photo on the main store doesn’t show the RF connector yet – what will connect into this RF connector? Is it the old TV antenna aerial from the UK (which NES and MasterSystem used, or old VCRs used prior to scart) or its equivalent from the US? Or something else entirely?

Just figured to ask before it  (h0pefully) comes back into stock and I’m not spending extra on something that I can’t make use of.

Thanks <3

Holly

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Tsukiko. Reason: just updating the tags a bit

[Zacabeb]

It’s for antenna input although it seems it won’t be integrated onto the board until the firmware support for it has been worked out (it probably costs too much to include just for good measure.)

If it’s going to remain the Skyworks Si2177 tuner, it will be multistandard (B/G, D/K, I, M/N) and the existing ADV7280 video decoder in turn decodes pretty much all flavors of PAL, NTSC, and SECAM. Sound in turn will be mono only (no MTS, A2, or NICAM) as there are no means of decoding other formats, but since no console or home computer did stereo sound over RF as far as I know that won’t be an issue.

[Tsukiko]

Oh, I seen it was an option on the VGP sale page with an option for rf input, so i figured it was ready and that the hardware version was ready (just out of stock). If one were to get the rf-less version, can the connector be soldered on or is it impossible at that point (if it needs that chip you mentioned)?

Oh yea, that’s a good point, RF antenna have the sound part of it, so you can’t run a line off to the audio input in that case, so it would need to decode it from the rf-input which sets it aside from the other inputs on the module (did s-vid include audio or was it always separate cables?).

[marqs]

The current production board has RF related parts unpopulated since that interface is unverified. In best case (i.e. if no issues are found on the design) one only needs to solder RF demod chip, connector, audio ADC and remaining SMD parts to upgrade the board to a RF compatible one.

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[Tsukiko]

Hi,

I thought I’d ask since the photo on the main store doesn’t show the RF connector yet – what will connect into this RF connector? Is it the old TV antenna aerial from the UK (which NES and MasterSystem used, or old VCRs used prior to scart) or its equivalent from the US? Or something else entirely?

Just figured to ask before it  (h0pefully) comes back into stock and I’m not spending extra on something that I can’t make use of.

Thanks <3

Holly

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Tsukiko. Reason: just updating the tags a bit

[Zacabeb]

It’s for antenna input although it seems it won’t be integrated onto the board until the firmware support for it has been worked out (it probably costs too much to include just for good measure.)

If it’s going to remain the Skyworks Si2177 tuner, it will be multistandard (B/G, D/K, I, M/N) and the existing ADV7280 video decoder in turn decodes pretty much all flavors of PAL, NTSC, and SECAM. Sound in turn will be mono only (no MTS, A2, or NICAM) as there are no means of decoding other formats, but since no console or home computer did stereo sound over RF as far as I know that won’t be an issue.

[Tsukiko]

Oh, I seen it was an option on the VGP sale page with an option for rf input, so i figured it was ready and that the hardware version was ready (just out of stock). If one were to get the rf-less version, can the connector be soldered on or is it impossible at that point (if it needs that chip you mentioned)?

Oh yea, that’s a good point, RF antenna have the sound part of it, so you can’t run a line off to the audio input in that case, so it would need to decode it from the rf-input which sets it aside from the other inputs on the module (did s-vid include audio or was it always separate cables?).

[marqs]

The current production board has RF related parts unpopulated since that interface is unverified. In best case (i.e. if no issues are found on the design) one only needs to solder RF demod chip, connector, audio ADC and remaining SMD parts to upgrade the board to a RF compatible one.

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