Watching tv shows from a hard drive

[mr_rye89]

Raspberry Pi 3 with Kodi on it, Ipod AV cable to get the AV out, and a Blonder Tongue modulator for the RF

[luRaichu]

Might be overkill for this use case, but they say the Raspberry Pi 5 has better composite quality than the Pi 3/4. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=366652

Personally I would trust the composite output of any Raspberry Pi to do better than the converter boxes though.

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

These tend to have poor color signal. A YouTuber disliked the quality of the RF from these enough to modify his to provide composite AV output for a better modulator....Also along the way he learned that between the HDMI to AV chip and the RF modulator chip inside those units that the factory mis-terminates the line impedance such that it reduces the quality of the video signal an undid that design error.

Found the video... very cool. I ordered one to try. My cable box still had an RF output, and can be set to display 4x3, but it's only a matter of time until they make me replace it, and i want to be ready.