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Old 10-06-2008, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by intotubes View Post
http://www.earlytelevision.org/col-r-tel.html

An explanation of how it works.

Unfortunately this one is missing to many parts to ever hope to work unless you build your own circuit to run it.
That occurred to me as well. Who would want this adapter without the interface unit between it and the TV?

I also question the statement that this converter made "reasonably good color pictures" when used with a very small b&w TV. I cannot see how a color converter such as this, using a color wheel spun by an electric motor, could produce color images anywhere nearly as good as those from a modern color TV receiver. I would think color pictures produced by the Col-R-Tel system would be mediocre at best.
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