32 Line NBTV Mechanical Television - Popeye the sailor

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  • @powellmountainmike8853
    @powellmountainmike8853 3 роки тому +241

    This is one of the finest demonstrations of a spinning disc television I have seen. It is obviously made using modern components, but the basic theory is the same as the old 1920s experimental sets.

  • @leediffusion
    @leediffusion 6 років тому +306

    For a mechanical TV I think this is impressive!

    • @DoubleMonoLR
      @DoubleMonoLR 4 роки тому +28

      Mechanical TV got up to 200 lines in the 1930s.

    • @drewgehringer7813
      @drewgehringer7813 4 роки тому +26

      yeah, the stability of the picture is pretty good
      This is probably about the best a nipkow-disk TV can be.

    • @nilp0inter2
      @nilp0inter2 4 роки тому +13

      Also it has a really good contrast.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 3 роки тому +7

      @@DoubleMonoLR I don't think so! Me thinks the highest was 108 lines

    • @badreality2
      @badreality2 3 роки тому +1

      Nah, the 1950's mechanical televisions were impressive.

  • @Damaniel3
    @Damaniel3 3 роки тому +103

    This is the first mechanical TV video I've seen on UA-cam where the TV actually works - with a bright, stable image. Nice job!

    • @jesperlundbyrasmussen7844
      @jesperlundbyrasmussen7844 3 роки тому +2

      really impressive!

    • @freeman10000
      @freeman10000 3 роки тому

      I would like to do something like this, really cool!

    • @boboften9952
      @boboften9952 2 роки тому +2

      Try ,
      Peter Spies you tube channel......
      Mechanical 32 LINE COLOUR TV MONITOR

    • @ns6q333
      @ns6q333 Рік тому

      This is closer to how it looks in real life, the camera used to record the TV was definitely set up just right

    • @smeezekitty
      @smeezekitty Рік тому

      @@ns6q333 I disagree. Mechanical displays actually look better in person

  • @yaphettbanks4936
    @yaphettbanks4936 6 років тому +389

    This makes the Sega CD look like BlueRay.

    • @Flexin010
      @Flexin010 6 років тому +6

      LMAO

    • @drewgehringer7813
      @drewgehringer7813 5 років тому +21

      yeah, but imagine its the 1920s and being able to do sound over radio waves is still New, Amazing Technology.
      To people at the time, this must've looked as futuristic as a star wars hologram projector does to us.

    • @bengelman2600
      @bengelman2600 3 роки тому

      lol

    • @naxzed_it
      @naxzed_it 3 роки тому

      @Scott Nilsson Shut the fuck up, we literally have better video and camera quality.
      iSheeps are still assuming they never overpaid for their shit when they always have been

    • @northamericanpichu
      @northamericanpichu 3 роки тому +1

      BOOM roasted

  • @Zenith_V
    @Zenith_V 3 роки тому +91

    “Don’t sit so close to the tv it isn’t good for you” simply does not work here

    • @paulbunyangonewild7596
      @paulbunyangonewild7596 3 роки тому +17

      I disagree I think a giant spinning disk would be even more reason to stay away.

    • @RobertEmery
      @RobertEmery 3 роки тому +4

      You'll put your eye out kid!

    • @KonElKent
      @KonElKent 3 роки тому +4

      Well... There's significantly less radiation.

    • @zerotwo_.002
      @zerotwo_.002 2 роки тому +4

      @@KonElKent light is a radiation.....

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 Місяць тому

      ​@@paulbunyangonewild7596You're not viewing it from the edge 🤦‍♂️
      There's about zero risk of anything from the viewing position, and very little otherwise. This is why experiencing the real world instead of witnessing it on a computer screen is important.

  • @santadavid3320
    @santadavid3320 3 роки тому +70

    Funny. I was born in the mid 50’s, and the first thing I remember ever seeing on TV was Popeye. Of course, by then it was all electronic with a cathode ray picture tube, and it was a good sized set. From my memory, it was probably a 20” diagonal screen. lol I was such a Popeye fan, that I begged my mom to buy spinach for me! And....she did! It was even Popeye brand spinach (do they still have this?)

    • @orektez
      @orektez 3 роки тому +2

      ya i've seen it at price chopper at least

    • @willpitts9957
      @willpitts9957 3 роки тому +7

      They have some at Walmart and most big box retailers. Good stuff. What a smart way to make kids (or adults) eat vegetables.

    • @isaace436
      @isaace436 3 роки тому +3

      Did they deliver spinach that far up in the north pole?
      Confirmed, santa eats spinach, likes popeye, and watches UA-cam.

    • @theusher2893
      @theusher2893 3 роки тому

      They do, I think it's sold by Allens brand

    • @paulkocyla1343
      @paulkocyla1343 3 роки тому +1

      Wasn´t the story that a laboratory accidently shifted a decimal point in the iron content of spinach, so it became a magical powerfood - and everyone got hyped about that?

  • @kdmq
    @kdmq 4 роки тому +63

    32p, we meet again.

  • @spasticpug5209
    @spasticpug5209 3 роки тому +27

    It’s amazing that the highly expressive cartoon characters remain recognizable in this quality

  • @timg2727
    @timg2727 3 роки тому +27

    This is the only demonstration of a mechanical TV I've ever seen that actually worked reasonably well.

    • @boboften9952
      @boboften9952 2 роки тому

      Try :
      Peter Spies you tube channel......
      Mechanical 32-line COLOUR TV MONITOR

  • @gabrieleriva651
    @gabrieleriva651 5 років тому +209

    Technology Connections brought me here.

    • @leemilica
      @leemilica 5 років тому +1

      Me too!

    • @ChiragRajputS
      @ChiragRajputS 5 років тому +1

      Me three!

    • @leemilica
      @leemilica 5 років тому +1

      @@ChiragRajputS me four!

    • @InDreamsYourMine
      @InDreamsYourMine 5 років тому +1

      @@leemilica Me five lol.

    • @entidade1000
      @entidade1000 4 роки тому +5

      It brought me here too, I needed to see how an actual mechanical tv worked instead of a makeshift one lmao. Great video as usual, though.

  • @windestruct
    @windestruct 4 роки тому +62

    If I saw this in 1930s i would be super impressed

    • @marcse7en
      @marcse7en 3 роки тому +1

      But crucially, this ISN'T the 1930s! 😂😂😂

    • @ZCJKF13GDG4
      @ZCJKF13GDG4 3 роки тому +3

      Hmm I'd be too busy preventing the Holocaust to care but you do you

    • @bobcostas6272
      @bobcostas6272 3 роки тому +1

      ZCJKF13GDG4 simp moron

    • @bobcostas6272
      @bobcostas6272 3 роки тому +1

      ZCJKF13GDG4 how do you prevent something which never happened

    • @ripleyfuriosa5701
      @ripleyfuriosa5701 3 роки тому +3

      @@bobcostas6272 nazi alert

  • @JRLB38
    @JRLB38 5 років тому +70

    Holy Crap, the quality on this is crazy good

    • @Ron2600_
      @Ron2600_ 3 роки тому +15

      @Allen S For a mechanically produced picture it pretty good.

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 3 роки тому +6

      @@Ron2600_ Especially diy

    • @ethelryan257
      @ethelryan257 3 роки тому +2

      @Allen S You have not got even the shade of a shimmer of an idea what was achieved here.

    • @marcse7en
      @marcse7en 3 роки тому

      Blimey! You must have a REALLY POOR TV? 👎😂

    • @lo2740
      @lo2740 3 роки тому

      @Allen S ignorance is a bliss, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

  • @stevekitt52
    @stevekitt52 3 роки тому +16

    I remember building a very primitive version for a college project 40 years ago using a 12" LP and managed to produce an 8 line image of an illuminated light bulb and that was as far as I went with it. Yours is an excellent build.😊👍👍👍👍

  • @alexeyzaplavnov747
    @alexeyzaplavnov747 6 років тому +213

    Only 30's kids remember this...

    • @nathanburrill8000
      @nathanburrill8000 5 років тому +5

      Are you 80? If so how TF you know hot to use a computer at most when my parents strugle

    • @leemilica
      @leemilica 5 років тому +9

      @@nathanburrill8000 r/woosh

    • @leemilica
      @leemilica 5 років тому +4

      r/woosh

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 4 роки тому +1

      @@nathanburrill8000 r/whooosh

    • @mt-mg7tt
      @mt-mg7tt 4 роки тому +4

      @@nathanburrill8000 They didn't actually say they remembered it themselves, though.
      There are seniors who are quite savvy with computers, and younger people who are not. It varies. You can't decide just based on their ages.

  • @shingabiss
    @shingabiss 3 роки тому +8

    Surprisingly good quality for a mechanically generated raster! Well done!

    • @andyy2008
      @andyy2008  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you :)

    • @boboften9952
      @boboften9952 2 роки тому

      Try ,
      Peter Spies you tube channel......
      Mechanical 32 LINE COLOUR TV MONITOR
      " NBTV " " Also Shows Circuitry and some paper work , manuals etc ."
      Note that there is two you tube channels with the name " Peter Spies "

  • @beanmchocolate3900
    @beanmchocolate3900 6 років тому +125

    Popeye was punching trees for wood years before Minecraft’s Steve did.

  • @pfield39
    @pfield39 3 роки тому +30

    John Logie Baird would be impressed.

  • @tediscoblock
    @tediscoblock 3 роки тому +2

    I have always pictured Popeye the Sailor Man on an antique tv set. Maybe not a mechanical tv set like this one. But any old tv set.

  • @RandyK29582
    @RandyK29582 5 років тому +7

    What awesome workmanship. Mechanical TV technology was just amazing for its time.

  • @patrickpassanante8685
    @patrickpassanante8685 3 роки тому +16

    Best demonstration of a mechanical TV, I’ve seen.....still don’t understand how it worked!

    • @Bigbadwhitecracker
      @Bigbadwhitecracker 3 роки тому

      No, I have no idea

    • @paulmoffat9306
      @paulmoffat9306 3 роки тому +4

      Basically, the camera end had a spinning disk as well, and it 'scanned' an image and a photocell behind the disk varied with the light. The receiver as shown here, had a spinning disk with the same hole pattern, synchronized with the camera disk, and a varying light source to rebuild the image. The eye's natural latency, allowed the perception of a whole picture.

    • @Finn_Anwarunya
      @Finn_Anwarunya 3 роки тому

      If you know how a CRT works its the same principle. Except instead of the light source moving across a screen the screen is moving across the light source.

  • @GeeWillikersMan
    @GeeWillikersMan 3 роки тому +13

    I came for the television but stayed for the cartoon.

  • @johnhourigan6049
    @johnhourigan6049 3 роки тому +4

    Always wondered what films look like on mechanical TV - thanks!

  • @krz8888888
    @krz8888888 3 роки тому +6

    Realplayer is back I see!

  • @kjamison5951
    @kjamison5951 3 роки тому +5

    That is a very nice build. I’ve seen some ‘concept’ projects which are lacking finesse. I like the style you chose, the shape of the front, the printed labels and the neat cable management to the rear. 10/10!

  • @Eidolon1andOnly
    @Eidolon1andOnly 3 роки тому +12

    This video was filmed with a mechanical camera and edited on an antikythera mechanism.

  • @HumanScourgeYT
    @HumanScourgeYT 5 років тому +10

    Just fascinating how this actually produces discernible images

  • @someguystudios23
    @someguystudios23 3 роки тому +5

    Sixty four bits, thirty two bit, sixteen bits, eight bits, FOUR BITS, TWO BITS, ONE BIT HALF BIT QUARTER BIT
    MECHANICAL TELEVISION

  • @fearlesswee5036
    @fearlesswee5036 3 роки тому +6

    It's crazy how even with the absurdly low resolution, your brain can kinda fill in the gaps *enough* so you can still *kinda* tell what's going on. Very impressive how well it works! (Obviously still pales in comparison to even the earliest cathode ray tube televisions though.)

    • @eswnl1
      @eswnl1 Рік тому

      But if you've never seen Popeye cartoons before, would it be the same?

  • @chandukunte6426
    @chandukunte6426 3 роки тому +2

    Wow. I think that this is the best quality ever get by a Nipkov disc. Well done.

  • @TheThunderWeasel
    @TheThunderWeasel 3 роки тому +12

    Crazy thing is, we would have settled for this resolution not that long ago.

    • @KonElKent
      @KonElKent 3 роки тому +4

      Oh the memories I have of finagling a TV antenna with a coat hanger and some aluminum foil, just to get a snowy image of channel 49... Kids today don't know how good they have it!!

  • @justanotheryoutubechannel
    @justanotheryoutubechannel 5 років тому +14

    That’s really cool! I can’t believe how perfectly it works.

    • @force311999
      @force311999 4 роки тому

      and no copyright match

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 3 роки тому

      @@force311999 The most impressive fact tbh

  • @scottm5425
    @scottm5425 3 роки тому +3

    Best picture I've seen from one of these, very impressive.

  • @davidlogansr8007
    @davidlogansr8007 5 років тому +12

    I thought this was Great! I thought I saw Color in the beginning? This system really should have been approved until Cathode Ray System’s could do better! We would have had far more TV from 1928 until 1939 when mechanical was outrun. Thank You for sharing! And all your work!

    • @paulnicholson1906
      @paulnicholson1906 4 роки тому +3

      I think the BBC had this system

    • @mfbfreak
      @mfbfreak 3 роки тому

      It didn't take long for CRTs to surpass mechanical scanning. Most countries switched to electronic in 1935 or 1936

  • @TralfazConstruction
    @TralfazConstruction 3 роки тому +2

    I'm sure I'm getting it all wrong but Philo Farnsworth supposedly got the idea for the line/scan TV transmission method when he was watching a farmer using a plough on his field.

  • @maxischew514
    @maxischew514 6 років тому +72

    But can it handle Crysis?

  • @Yuuri066
    @Yuuri066 6 років тому +54

    This is god damn beautiful!

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 4 роки тому +4

      Not bad for 130 year old technology

  • @rodneykingston6420
    @rodneykingston6420 3 роки тому +1

    It looks like a pretty impressively manufactured set. Mass produced, it would make a neat novelty toy.

  • @RadioJonophone
    @RadioJonophone 3 роки тому +3

    Electronic TVs used a couple circuits called Flywheel Synch, where the scan (line & frame) was set to start according to the incoming picture pulses then kept to the correct speed by mimicking the inertia of a flywheel. It was achieved by a couple of diodes and some capacitors in a Colpitts oscillator.
    I see your Nipkow disk arrangement has a frame end detector, giving that "Flywheel" effect a more mechanical meaning, although I suspect you keep the drive motor in step with that and the incoming video by means of a comparator and loop lock circuit for the servo function.

    • @andyy2008
      @andyy2008  3 роки тому +1

      Yes, it uses a PLL to keep it in sync.

  • @LarryRobinsonintothefog
    @LarryRobinsonintothefog Рік тому

    Awesome! The first time I've seen a mechanical TV in operation.

  • @johnassal5838
    @johnassal5838 3 роки тому +3

    Nice. You know mechanical TVs detractors aside it's limitations aren't that severe if you change up a few things. For instance switching from the encoder _wheel_ to a _barrel_ shape would simultaneously eliminate the arcing scan lines and increase rotation refresh rates given the encoders smaller diameter per image size. Taken further a tape or belt would be a lot harder to keep exactly in synch with the recording device but if done would almost eliminate the size limits on the screen and so vastly increase practical resolutions too.

  • @moth.monster
    @moth.monster 6 років тому +46

    Eh it would probably look just fine once i take off my glasses

  • @namco003
    @namco003 Рік тому

    I've been on a HOW ELECTRONICS WORK rabbit hole lately, and mechanical TV is just something I didn't imagine existing.

  • @Floccinaucinihilipilificator
    @Floccinaucinihilipilificator 5 років тому +2

    I'm honestly impressed by the quality all things considered.

    • @Floccinaucinihilipilificator
      @Floccinaucinihilipilificator 5 років тому

      @Scott Nilsson And how do you figure that?

    • @joehorn1762
      @joehorn1762 3 роки тому

      @@Floccinaucinihilipilificator i know this is a year old but dude was being an ignorant troll.

  • @paulkocyla1343
    @paulkocyla1343 3 роки тому +4

    Gorgeous build!

  • @videolabguy
    @videolabguy 4 роки тому +4

    How were you able to record the 12.5 frames per second without flicker? I have built several mechanical televisions and can not get video of them operating. I am not the only one having this issue. (You can click through to my channel to see my current effort and reply there if you'd like)

  • @kurtreber9813
    @kurtreber9813 3 роки тому +2

    The way television was MEANT to be viewed.

  • @zsombor_99
    @zsombor_99 3 роки тому +5

    Good work, sir! Incredibly low resolution, but the image is solid still and recognizable! 👍

  • @guimbadriver
    @guimbadriver 6 років тому +66

    4 BIT picture

    • @theechickengamerz
      @theechickengamerz 4 роки тому +9

      Its mechanical, so it would be wrong to call it anything except 32p, which is true, but not really.

    • @theechickengamerz
      @theechickengamerz 4 роки тому

      assopra dvd ik

    • @captainretro373
      @captainretro373 4 роки тому +1

      Wot bits,we only ‘ave analog val’us

    • @mt-mg7tt
      @mt-mg7tt 4 роки тому +1

      Hmm, It seems to be fed with composite, analogue video, so I don't think that '4 bit' necessarily applies. It's output from VLC. so there is D-A conversion going on somewhere. That MIGHT be 4-bit, I guess.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 3 роки тому +3

      32 lines, that is 5bit

  • @Roninkinx
    @Roninkinx 3 роки тому +1

    The tracking on this reminds me so much of vhs head tracking except an analog dial

  • @mateusnewsboy7915
    @mateusnewsboy7915 4 роки тому +3

    How did you put Popeye's drawing on a vintage TV like you do?

  • @wojciechmuras553
    @wojciechmuras553 Рік тому

    I wonder if you could put a lens in front of it to get a very, very dim, but projector? In a perfectly dark room, that could enable social viewing.

  • @LoftBits
    @LoftBits 3 роки тому +1

    This is breathtaking! Or, should I say, Bairdtaking. Congratulations!

  • @xa-xii4865
    @xa-xii4865 2 роки тому +1

    Now imagine replacing your lg oled with that

  • @anonhollmuller4032
    @anonhollmuller4032 4 роки тому +7

    verry much thx!
    well done!
    best of modern replicate:)
    greets and best regards from Germany!

    • @andyy2008
      @andyy2008  4 роки тому +1

      Thank you very much !

  • @wxman2003
    @wxman2003 3 роки тому +6

    And now you know why they banned cocaine in Coca Cola nearly 100 years ago.

    • @bogglemeister4204
      @bogglemeister4204 3 роки тому

      You had to be on coke to understand whats happening on that screen

  • @HailAnts
    @HailAnts 3 роки тому +1

    How did the original mechanical television broadcast systems maintain synchronization?

    • @vyratron839
      @vyratron839 3 роки тому

      There was one syncpulse per rotation of the disc

    • @bichela
      @bichela 2 роки тому

      @@vyratron839 similar to the CRT FLYBACK PULSE but it isn’t interlaced.

  • @michaelquinones-lx6ks
    @michaelquinones-lx6ks Рік тому

    Mechanical Television, The short lived medium, was the DVD player back in the day.

  • @Zeldaschampion
    @Zeldaschampion 3 роки тому +1

    More curious about the name of the song and what group is signing it?

    • @andyy2008
      @andyy2008  3 роки тому +1

      Midnight Star - Operator

  • @wokejesus6501
    @wokejesus6501 3 роки тому +1

    Came for the vintage tech, stayed for the Zapp & Roger

  • @mirek190
    @mirek190 3 роки тому

    I am impressed ... the quality picture is so good ... looks almost unreal for mechanical TV .. like CGI ;-)

  • @eduimaji
    @eduimaji 3 роки тому +1

    how does it work?

  • @leonmac
    @leonmac 5 років тому +2

    So fascinating how TV's were back then

  • @gorillazhead
    @gorillazhead 7 місяців тому +1

    Looks like a VideoNow player 😂
    But in all seriousness, the idea behind mechanical televisions was so ingenious.

  • @mr.wamballo317
    @mr.wamballo317 5 років тому +1

    Never seen something of this much quality

  • @FordSeniorMaster
    @FordSeniorMaster 3 роки тому +1

    Nice construction etc.!😎👍🏻

  • @Vinnay94
    @Vinnay94 5 років тому +2

    The scan rate (refresh rate) is actually pretty good. But if you wanted bump up the resolution to say 480i, you would either have to make a bigger disc, make smaller holes or use a belt.

    • @andyy2008
      @andyy2008  5 років тому +3

      Refresh rate is 12.5 Hz. It's a bit worse if you see it with your own eyes, but on camera it's not that bad.

    • @Vinnay94
      @Vinnay94 5 років тому

      @@andyy2008 Oh, usually raster scan type displays look worse on camera.
      (EDIT) 12.5 would probably do more damage to your eyes since the refresh rate is so slow that your eyes have to keep adjusting to flickering images where as 60hz and above, your eyes don't bother. Then again, faster could be even worse for your eyes.

  • @confuseatronica
    @confuseatronica 3 роки тому +1

    Projector version would be cool. You could start with the same design.
    (and then hide a camera looking at the screen and a dlp projector in the case, carefully defocused so it doesn't look too good)

  • @paulstubbs7678
    @paulstubbs7678 3 роки тому +1

    Nice, kind of tempted to build one. Pity you didn't include any details, other than a program

  • @michaelfixedsys7463
    @michaelfixedsys7463 Рік тому

    This is exceedingly impressive.

  • @AltimaNEO
    @AltimaNEO 3 роки тому +3

    CD Projekt : "It runs surprisingly good"

  • @toniturnwald9890
    @toniturnwald9890 6 років тому +2

    Respect, this a quality, amazing what you build. Congratulations and thank you for showing. cu Toni

  • @timhofstetter5654
    @timhofstetter5654 3 роки тому

    OK, we can see the through-holes (or transparent spots) in one plane (on the disk)... what crosses that to provide the rasterized picture? Is this one of a pair of synchronous Nipkow disks?

    • @vyratron839
      @vyratron839 3 роки тому +1

      The holes are in a spiral and only one disc is needed

    • @timhofstetter5654
      @timhofstetter5654 3 роки тому

      @@vyratron839 Interesting. So... how do you synchronize light flashes and brightness to wheel position?

  • @thatguycarmine1
    @thatguycarmine1 3 роки тому

    better quality than the camera your using in 2018

  • @ClaudeDufourmont
    @ClaudeDufourmont 8 місяців тому

    Merci beaucoup bravo pour ce travail, comment récupérer le programme visionné, le format étant particulier

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 4 місяці тому

    What video signal do you use? How can you synchronize?

  • @sethhorst6158
    @sethhorst6158 6 років тому +1

    So that was television was like before CRT started to be the main thing television manufactures used in the 1950's up to 2009. Also that TV is quite mind blowing, considering what type of mechanics it used.

    • @19seventy97
      @19seventy97 5 років тому +2

      CRTs were used from the 1930s+
      Mechanical TVs were in the 20s and died in the 30s. They didn’t take off all that well. CRTs were being introduced in a similar time, and CRTs clearly won with their 405 lines (then 625 later on) compared to mechanical TVs 30 lines.

    • @steves427
      @steves427 4 роки тому

      John Logie Baird's mechanical evidently could only achieve a maximum resolution of 240 lines a second if televising filmed material, was noisy and motor & back light wise much less refined than this example. No LED lighting back in the 1930's. No contest with a 405 line Cathode Ray Tube fully electronic tv that was far more better all round.
      Excellent impressive display.
      What next 240 line LED 'HD' mechanical tv? Would be interesting to see what could achieved!

    • @sethhorst6158
      @sethhorst6158 3 роки тому

      @@19seventy97 There were CRT televisions from the 1930's? I thought the oldest CRT television to ever be made dated back to the 1940's

    • @19seventy97
      @19seventy97 3 роки тому

      Yep, here in the UK CRT based television sets were in 1935/36
      Incredibly uncommon and the time, and moreso now due to many being trashed

  • @arkadiuszkulon8728
    @arkadiuszkulon8728 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks beautiful work.

  • @horipet
    @horipet 6 років тому +7

    Any chance of tech details so someone could build one? (by someone I mean .... me.) I live in Hastings UK, where mechanical tv was invented, and I'm a retired av technician (and editor of a 3-vol. History of Early Television). And as it happens, I'm also a big Popeye fan - since 1957. Seriously keen to have more tech details.

    • @erikparawell8476
      @erikparawell8476 5 років тому

      Lookup Bechanical TV's, by the UA-cam channel Technology Connections. He has great explainations.

    • @entidade1000
      @entidade1000 4 роки тому

      Technology Connections actually made a makeshift mechanical tv that somewhat kinda worked out of a led and a spinning lp with holes in it

    • @horipet
      @horipet 4 роки тому

      @@entidade1000 Thanks!

    • @horipet
      @horipet 4 роки тому

      @@erikparawell8476 Thanks!

  • @nuassul
    @nuassul 2 роки тому

    Wooow que bien calibrada tienes esta televisión.

  • @SteleCat
    @SteleCat 3 роки тому

    Surprisingly watchable.

  • @joshgellis3292
    @joshgellis3292 6 років тому +1

    Amazing how the UA-cam definition, somehow UNdermines the very low definition of the mechanical TV that DEPENDS on the ability of how human eyes count on the frame rate to blur images in a way to make the notice of objects and people from this thing.
    Good work on that mechanical television. I'd love to make my own.

  • @kingofthepod5169
    @kingofthepod5169 3 роки тому +1

    But can you use this as a gaming monitor?
    Could and should are 2 different things.

  • @ethanspaziani5269
    @ethanspaziani5269 4 роки тому +4

    Play some fall out pretty please.... and oh my God this is so cool please go into great detail about this I want to know how this thing works and how I can make my own glitter D please I really really really think this is amazing and you know they developed a color TV version of this which I think would be super cool to make two

  • @robmclaughjr
    @robmclaughjr 3 роки тому

    32 pixels tall! That's so impressive

  • @pauljensen5699
    @pauljensen5699 3 роки тому

    That opening music, pure 80's...

    • @gustavoceballos5327
      @gustavoceballos5327 Рік тому +1

      Indeed, and the song is called “Operator” by Midnight Star

    • @pauljensen5699
      @pauljensen5699 Рік тому

      ​@@gustavoceballos5327
      Almost never played on Chicago's B96.
      But the top 40 countdown would.
      Otherwise never would have heard it.

  • @smadaf
    @smadaf Рік тому +1

    How many pictures per second?

  • @killcar5nbike2
    @killcar5nbike2 3 роки тому

    Why does the horizontal resolution look as though it's also low resolution digital with defined sharp pixel edges? Surely it should only have poor vertical resolution.
    Is this a compression artifact from recording and upload?

    • @MarzoVarea
      @MarzoVarea 3 роки тому

      I suppose the set is being fed a digitally converted signal, to 32x45 or whatever?

    • @killcar5nbike2
      @killcar5nbike2 3 роки тому

      @@MarzoVarea it's a logical assumption. Someone's down converted a digital video to low resolution to feed the signal processing and driver stage.

  • @elektroqtus
    @elektroqtus 6 років тому +1

    Please note, I subscribed because of this video

  • @Ihaveiq_100
    @Ihaveiq_100 Місяць тому

    is this a 1930s tv or some DIY from ebay or amazon?

  • @brentfisher902
    @brentfisher902 3 роки тому

    0:11 This music reminds me of the time of the Vikings and Ertugrul Ghazi and Two Handed Swords....very excessive age music...In the Faerytale Era they didn't have gunpowder, engines, or electricity so television worked using NBTV over a Toslink optical cable and a falling weight and governor mechanism...the sound is optical shining the temperature difference modulated audio onto a muscle wire attached to a paper cone from a high temperature candle..

  • @2N2222A
    @2N2222A 3 роки тому

    Nice rig.
    How did you make the test video used?

  • @dimthecat9418
    @dimthecat9418 3 роки тому +1

    How old is this?

  • @Zomfoo
    @Zomfoo 3 роки тому

    Oh to feel the novelty this must have been once again.

  • @warlockd
    @warlockd 6 років тому +9

    I wonder if you can make it color with an RGB led. Have to find a way to buffer the color burst, ugh then convert yuv to rgb. ugh.

    • @k_tess
      @k_tess 6 років тому +2

      Yes you can

    • @aaron5364
      @aaron5364 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/lDzmPBzbgwE/v-deo.html

    • @MikinessAnalog
      @MikinessAnalog 4 роки тому +1

      isn't it more simple to split the red blue green like some older DVD player outputs have? Then just use a 4 pin RGB LED (1 pin being a common). I think it is the green output that has the sync on it though.
      Maybe I am making it far too simple than a 3 terminal RCA video output actually is.

    • @force311999
      @force311999 4 роки тому

      @@k_tess you have to spin it 3 times faster

  • @spugintrntl
    @spugintrntl 3 роки тому +1

    Cool, but I can definitely see why these didn't catch on.

  • @ВасяВетров-б1д
    @ВасяВетров-б1д 4 роки тому +2

    Класс! А откуда сигнал? И почему так мало лайков?

  • @spencerbergquist781
    @spencerbergquist781 Рік тому

    I've seen these before on UA-cam. This must be a kit you buy and assemble. What type of source are you using, a VCR , or DVD player ?

    • @andyy2008
      @andyy2008  Рік тому

      Hello ! No, this is not a kit, we built this by ourselves, me and my dad, and the source is a wave file, converted from a video file, using a program called Video2NBTV by Gary Millard.

  • @thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861
    @thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861 3 роки тому

    Instead of a large disc, could this be consolidated using a strip of paper or film with holes punched in it, and have it run in a loop? Seems like it would be smaller than a massive disc. Cool project anyways.

    • @andyy2008
      @andyy2008  3 роки тому +1

      It had to be as close to the original disc as possible, although other techniques are also possible of course.

    • @thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861
      @thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861 3 роки тому

      @@andyy2008 I understand that this project was an attempt to re-create early mechanical television prototypes, I just wondered other ways this concept of a mechanical television could be implemented.

  • @CaveBross
    @CaveBross 2 роки тому

    so, this was a product back then? Not a diy project?

  • @elektroqtus
    @elektroqtus 6 років тому +13

    Is that yours??? If it is, do some more!!! Please. That device you've modified is totally bad ass. I grew up on Popeye.

    • @goobergobber
      @goobergobber 4 роки тому +3

      Its not modified they are designed to do that