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Old 06-22-2013, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by jmetal88 View Post
EDIT 3: I've figured out what it is. This crazy thing has some sort of automatic brightness control or something. It seems to be constantly adjusting the picture to maintain a consistent black level, which is honestly kind of annoying on my main CRT, and is probably the cause of the funky distortion I'm seeing on my 1959 Zenith. It's still not a bad purchase for $15 though, and I'll probably start using it to record some of my TV shows (since my VCR is honestly terrible at it -- it probably needs a cleaning, badly).
It likely doesn't have a TBC. The brightness thing is likely overzealous Marcovision protection kicking in.
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