Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Okay I’ve found a project on GitHub that might be able to do this! Will test it out when everything arrives.

If all goes to plan I’ll have four raspberry pis, each acting as a video player, into the modulators and then into a cable TV network broadcasting over the terrestrial UHF frequencies. No actual over the air broadcasting so it should stay self contained.

@garrwolfdog Well I spent a bit of time this morning looking at projects and I’ve found something on GitHub that does what I want. :)

github.com/TheDerpySage/comfy-channel

@garrwolfdog I had forgotten about this! I think it did spark something but I was a little disappointed that they didn’t share their code for the project.

@vulpine It's going to take some work and I'm gonna need another raspberry pi to get all the playout devices together (four in total, I have three alread) but ultimately I want it to be a whole house deal; UHF in every room to plug an analog TV in and get some decent telly.

I want the system to show programs in episode order but not as a box set binge style. For example the scifi channel would show an episode of Star Trek TNG and then an episode of Babylon 5 and then maybe The X-Files.

The cartoon channel would show an episode of Earthworm Jim, then Gargoyles, then MLP, etc and then in the evening it becomes a movie channel and starts showing movies.

I want some semblence of old style British analogue TV back and as I can't get it anywhere else I'm going to make it myself.

With the four modulators that I have I'm thinking of recreating something akin to the viewing habits I had on early Sky TV:

A channel of kids shows/cartoons during the day and movies in the evening (Cartoon Network & TNT)
A channel of scifi programs and more adult anime (Sci-Fi Channel/Bravo)
A general entertainment channel (Sky One)
A documentary channel (History)

Oh also "why do this?"

1) It's interesting technology and I'm nerdy for it

2) I don't watch broadcast TV anymore because (despite the hundreds of channels) there's nothing I would want to watch at the time i want to watch it, and also I'm fed up with streaming.

I want something good to watch and it be in rotation so I don't have to choose. If I'm forced to choose I end up watching a documentary for the tenth time instead of something else I've got waiting.

I definitely want to get a set of wolf ears to wear this year. Well two sets because I also want a set to sew into a witch hat <3

@Jencen "Oh this is a nice handrail, it would be a shame if someone BLINKED ALL OVER IT" *splutsplutsplutsplut*

@Jencen I love Nigel and Marmalade!!!

@Jencen I see they couldn't decide on if they should be named Rob or Ross either

PAL TVs don't have square pixels so I'm gonna do this experiment to see if I need to account for that or not.

For example if I throw a square pixeled video at an actual CRT through UHF how is it going to look compared to the non-square pixel video?