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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Complete B&W NTSC timing ???
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 08:31:54 GMT
- Organization: SunConnect
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- Sender: smckinty@France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
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- Keywords: NTSC,TV,Video,timing
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- In article <1992Aug31.132411.8008@ms.uky.edu>, billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn) writes:
- > What does one have to do to a composite video signal to make the TV
- > do a verticle retrace? This is for BLACK & WHITE video and it does
- > not need to be broadcast quality! My only referrences to diagrams of
- > this sort are for color video. It seems that with out color one could
- > just keep the horizontal sync low for a while after the last line of
- > video. Is this true? If so, how long does it take? Any suggestions,
- > references etc?
- >
-
- Yes, just taking the signal to the sync level (0v) for a couple of line
- periods will do it. Its crude, but is done on many of the cheap
- computers & TV games.
-
- Within the TV there is usually some sort of integration circuit (a
- resistor/capacitor pair). The short sync pulses at the start of each line
- don't charge the capacitor up very much, and it discharges before the
- next line, so nothing happens. A long pulse at the end of the frame allows
- the capacitor to charge up enough to trigger the vertical retrace.
-
- A real broadcast-quality signal uses a series of long pulses, each almost one
- full line in duration, over about 10 lines. They are long enough to allow
- the integration capacitor to charge, but the fact that there is still a
- rise/fall at each line period allows the horizontal circuitry to stay in sync.
- In practice a modern TV will stay synched anyway, so just using one
- long pulse of 600mS or so will work OK.
-
- Steve
-