[Laughter] I don't even need color to kill you guys. This is awesome! Greetings and welcome to
an LGR thing, and if you saw the previous episode of LGR Thrifts, episode 26, then you probably
recognize this little guy right here, and if you haven't seen it, then uh click the
link to see it if you'd like
tiny bit of background how I got this. The gist of it is that I was at a Goodwill. Saw this thing in a box.
Thought it was an Admiral TV but it turns out it is, uh, not color TV or admiral at all.
it was a Goldstar television, black-and-white, 1986. Really, oh, 1984 rather.
This is a really neat little TV to me. I love the look of this I love the fact that it's
got, uh, wood grain or as it says on the side
simulated wood. [Laughter] It's just neat. It's got the little halo antenna here, and we've got the VHF one right here.
The telescoping arm and these are just neat. And of course those dials. Ah, you know the dials are what just did
it for me. I am a sucker for anything like that so what I want to do is something
that doesn't make a lot of sense but I want to because it's fun to me and that
is putting HDMI capability on this little guy right here. Well not the antenna but like the whole TV right so
along in the back, you're going to see that it has UHF and VHF connectors right here which is of course for
getting over-the-air signals for TV back in the day. Well those don't do anything anymore.
Everything's digital now. You could hook this up to, uh,
one of those HDTV receivers, I'm sure, and do that but I don't do that. I want to hook up HDMI
to this, and I've done something similar to that in the
past. Not on LGR but, uh, basically what happened was I had a nineteen sixties
television. It was black and white as well, and I just wanted to plug my Atari
2600 and things like that up to it and I did. And basically the thing that makes that
happen is this little UHF VHF matching transformer it says. It's one of those
uh connectors that basically just makes an RF coaxial connection able to plug
into UHF and VHF here. We're going to be plugging in into
VHF because we want channel three and four for the next piece of hardware which is this little
box right here. This is a Voxx Accessories Corporation AV modulator. This is basically a RF modulator that
allows you to plug in RCA or composite signals right here and it will output to
your RF which is what this is going to be eventually once it's plugged into there.
and you can select channel three or four. Of course this right here doesn't solve my HDMI
problem and that is a step further than I ever went before. I just wanted to plug
in like Ataris and old game consoles to the TV. While, so with this thing, I gotta
get HDMI on here because that is what I want. So here's what I'm going to be using, this Porta HDMI converter. Just a
little cheapo made-in-China thing. It's incredibly simple but yet it works very well and, uh,
it's just a little USB-powered device. So you have your HDMI that goes in right here and, uh, these are
going to connect to the modulator which connects to the transformer which
connects to the TV, and hopefully everything will work together, and we'll get HDMI
on a black and white, uh, little TV from Goldstar
Which, you know, Goldstar is actually LG nowadays. Did you know that? I was reading that recently. That's kind of
interesting. Apparently they partnered up with this Lucky Corporation or something
in Korea. They're both Korean companies. They just got together. It was like Lucky and Goldstar. LG. There
you go there's your factoid for today. Actually it's a real fact not a factoid.
Anyway let's do this thing. So first up, yeah, I'm just going to be taking off the antenna here
the connectors really. You don't need to take off the entire antenna. In fact, I'm gonna leave it because
I think this guy looks cool. But, uh, yeah, so really what we need to do is put this end where that
was. I like old hardware like this that screws in. Reminds me of these old
speakers I have by Realistic. They, uh, they screw in as well. Like the the cables on the
back. You don't just clip them in. You have to physically screw them around this
little pole. It's a kind of annoying but fun at the same time. Alright so that's nice and snug.
I have already plugged in this tiny little RF lead here but on the end of it, I
mean, it really does just kinda look like, I mean, any other RF connection like a
coax connection. So because, yeah, the rest of it--I mean on the back of this whole thing
there's nothing. You don't get any connectors whatsoever. It looks like
there was maybe a model that had one that went right here. That's normally
where an RF connection would go. I'm sure there was. I'm sure they just swapped
out his back plate for like a color version with RF because, I mean, all
you have is contrast. Contrast, horizontal and vertical hold.
So, uh, yeah. That's it. But really, I mean, this will do it for a lot of things. Anything you can plug in with
RF and this is gonna work. But we needed more than that of course. So the next thing is this little guy. And I guess that will be, channel four is fine.
You can plug in the antenna here if you have a secondary antenna and you want them
both plugged in. You probably remember boxes like this if you had an NES back
in the day but, instead of this going to like the NES, this goes to anything. So, uh, alright. To the TV.
I hate putting these things in. Always have. Always will.
Screw it. Just going to do it this way. Screw it because that's what I'm trying to do is
screw this. Ok. It's just that little--they just--it's never comfortable to put on there. How many
times you try to put on an RF connector, and it goes on like catty-cornered and just
doesn't get the grooves right? Sucks. And, uh, well since this is, I mean, as far as I know it's
mono anyway, we're just going to use the one sound channel. I just had these
random audio cables working but we'll do [inaudible]. It's fine. So we got, uh, one for video here and just
gonna plug it into the white one for audio. And really, this is it. So wait. What did I do? I already forgot. Ok red is video so
it goes right here and this, uh, put it into the white. And, uh, yeah. I'll plug in HDMI here which I'm going to hook it up to my PC.
So we're going to try some different things the way. And, uh, give this some power. Looks like you can
switch between NTSC and PAL on this little box which is, that's kind of neat. I have no reason to do that but
this one is USB powered. This one, uh, actually does have a
DC power cord power supply thingy. Birds outside. Okay, I mean, that's the rest all put together here. [Straining] Isn't this thing lovely? Look at that. Ahh, makes
me happy, man.
Just go ahead and just plug this thing in right here.
[ Dial clicks ]
Yeah!
So there's my Windows 10 background. And, uh,
I'll probably see the mouse moving around a little bit. Start menu, whatever.
Bring up Steam if I want. Ah. [Laughter]
It's, it's a little weird but it works, right?
Ahh, this is super cool.
Here's something that I've wanted to do on this TV. I've done it on another one before. It's just, it's a lot of fun.
[TV Commercial Announcer:] Nobody beats G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe Phantom X-19.
Cobra roams the beaches with the Cobra BUGG.
Over the land and deep down below, the Cobra BUGG's got an eye on the Joe.
[Children:] Cobra! Go Joe!
[Announcer:] Nobody beats G.I. Joe.
G.I. Joe Phantom X-19. Sleek and mean, you fly so fast.
So fast it can't be beat!
No body beats G.I. Joe, the real American hero!
Cobra BUGG comes with driver. Phantom X-19 with pilot. Go Joe!
[Clint:] [Laughter]
[TV Announcer:] We now continue with Smurf's Adventures.
[Clint:] Unfortunately, not.
[Announcer:] Smurfs' Adventures will return after these messages.
[Clint:] Just a bunch of commercials.
[ Music plays ]
[Announcer:] The squeeze is on. The squeeze is on. Squeezit. Squeezit. Squeezit.
[Clint:] Oh man. I miss Squeezits.
[Announcer:] The squeeze is on. Come on, come on. Squeezit. Squeezit. Squeezit fruit drink.
Don't need a glass. Don't need a straw. [Inaudible].
The squeeze is on. The squeeze is on. Squeezit fruit drink. For fruity fun, just squeezit. Squeezit!
[Launchpad:] It's me, Launchpad McQuack
[Clint:] Yay!
[Launchpad:] Thrilling adventures with... Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and Louie!
[Announcer:] The Disney duck who loves to fly by the seat of his pants.
[Clint:] Man, I need to turn that off before I just sit here and have that go all day.
Plus the Ducktales theme is going to get stuck in my head, and I can't have that.
I would like to try out
a game that I find to be quite appropriate for this.
[ Fallout 4 theme music plays ]
I've been playing through Far Harbor. I'm assuming it's just going to load up one of those saved games when I hit continue.
Interesting little expansion. I'm not like super into it to be honest but it's a nice change of pace.
Ah man! This is awesome! [Laughter] [Gunshots]
Ah, that's cool.
This just looks right. I can't tell if it's daytime or nighttime though.
Okay, I had my Pip-Boy on so there's that.
Alright.
This game is not very loud for some reason. Even with the master volume all the way up so there's a lot of fuzz coming through.
Maybe it's just me.
[ Gunshots ]
But I've noticed that even with like the, uh
with like headphones and stuff, I have to turn it up way louder than other games.
I don't know what's up with that.
It's not my system like settings turning the program down or anything
That's at 100 percent so I don't know!
So like I can actually see the Pip-Boy rather well
which is awesome.
[ Pip-Boy dial clicking ]
I can kind of read things. [Laughter] So I mean that's something.
[ Pip-Boy dial clicking ]
On the other hand, I mean, it's going to be like, ah
You can't see any of the UI elements. You can barely see like my map on the bottom of the screen there.
That makes sense. There's so much overscan with this, and I did scale my desktop down so
that it is, you know, better. But, uh, you know, it only does so much.
Overscan on these old TVs is ridiculous especially with a ton of converters and stuff.
Alright. Let's go find some crap and kill it.
Hmm. Ruined church.
[ Gunshot ]
Even more ruined now! I always shoot those heads. You never know if it's just a body or like a zombie or whatever. Especially on this TV, I
can't see a thing.
Plus I'm playing this sideways [Laughter] because my keyboard and mouse is like over there
Anybody in here? Bunch of jerks.
This looks like the church that's way down in like the very bottom of the
map in the normal game.
I can't read what's in there. I'm just gonna take it all.
Ahh!
[Laughter] Woops! Now that didn't work.
I know. We'll just go to a place where there are people and I won't save it and
I know that, you know, they're going to kill me but it's okay.
People in Far Harbor are a bunch of jerks anyway. They all deserve to die.
[ Laughter ]
I'm not telling you why.
but, uh, yes
Very interesting kind of plot that goes on with this one.
There's some stuff I did not expect for instance to--this is not really a spoiler but
like to play a Tron meets Portal
meets tower defense game. There's some really interesting stuff but, yeah, all these people need to die.
[ Gunshots ]
[Game character:] Yahh!
[Clint:] Do a bunch of drugs!
Oh, that's my guy. Whatever.
[ Gunshots ]
Yeah!
Suck it, person giving me quests all the time I don't like.
[ Gunshots ]
Alright, well it didn't show the end of that because my camera cut off
stupidly but basically nothing happened. I died and a bunch of people swore at me and tried to
kill me after I died. That's just how it goes.
Browsing the internet is not a task that makes a lot of sense on this thing obviously. You can't read anything.
I can barely see that my homescreen thingy here says Fandango. That's about it.
But
I think. Is this YouTube?
What is this? Oh that's Twitter. Let's just go to YouTube.
We can watch, uh. We can watch me finding this very TV
on the TV itself.
That's pretty meta right there.
[YouTube video Clint:] taking this home and seeing what I've got.
[Clint:] Well that was me finding it. There's not like a whole lot to it there.
[YouTube video Clint:] Can't forget the TV which was not an Admiral TV at all. In fact, it turned out to be a Goldstar TV.
The same size though. Like 12, 13 inch, something like that.
But it is a black and white TV. I was expecting color but, you know what, that's fine. I actually think this is going to make a really neat project. Stay tuned for that.
I guess you did stay tuned for that if you're watching this.
I'm just curious what Doom looks like on here. This is just my video on it since I don't have it installed anymore
I will just kind of skip ahead.
You know what? That's actually pretty sweet looking too. I gotta say, I'm impressed with like the clarity of
which, well the relative clarity, that you can see color things on a black-and-white TV. It's, I mean obviously it's not
ideal.
There's a lot of stuff here that looks muddy together but like the contrast between things actually looks really
cool with HDMI and being HDMI, you could plug in any number of things to do this:
consoles, as long as they support that device--sometimes it screws up with HDCP
and stuff
and doesn't let you do it. I'm sure you could, you know, strip out the signal or whatever and make it happen. I don't have one of the things to do that at the
moment or else I would show you. I did try it with PS4, and it just didn't do anything.
So I'm assuming you need some sort of other converter box or whatever. But yeah. Chromecast for
instance. Actually there's a video I saw that a guy did that with an old color TV kinda like this.
He put all the internals inside the TV itself for a Chromecast. Which is a really cool project but yeah. This is neat.
[Laughter] That's really cool. Oh man.
Alright, well that's pretty much it for this video. If you'd like to see what those
devices--little boxes and stuff--were to convert all this and make it happen, I'll put links in the description to that, and you know, some other
things that I find interesting that are related to this but that's pretty much it for this video.
I'll have to fix that knob. I'm not sure. See, like, you barely touch it. It almost has to be like in between the channels
for it to pick up seriously.
That's kind of neat though when it doesn't quite pick up correctly. Look at that. It's like
that analog, man. It's like getting images from hell.
Especially cuz it's like demons and stuff coming through. [Laughter] That's really neat.
Well that's it for this video.
Thank you very much for watching.
[ Music plays ]