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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.deOPtoRaspberry Pi@feddit.de•How do you deal with blurry Hazy graphics in an old CRT TV purchased in the last 15 years?
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    1 year ago

    I live in Nepal which is neither US nor Europe, this is whats confusing me more.

    Well, what I found was both NTSC and PAL works over HDMI (I purchased a Composite to HDMI converter) though NTSC is worse than PAL. So I assumed my TV is PAL.

    I dont really have any aim for this “project” I just noticed this old TV lying right across my bed doing nothing and now I wonder if it can do anything.

    I will likely use it to watch Youtube videos or something. I do have a DVD player compatible with this TV but it would be nice if I could make it more powerful than that. Afterall, I dont have any other 24 inch display for larger video.

  • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.deOPtoRaspberry Pi@feddit.de•How do you deal with blurry Hazy graphics in an old CRT TV purchased in the last 15 years?
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    1 year ago

    So you mean I should enable interlaced flag to 1 in hdmi_ctv

    Actually, I learned that Raspberry pi 4B supports TV AV output through its headphone jack (I feel dumb for not reading the docs previously) and so I ordered a TRRS cable. I looked at the documentation and it says that pin needs to have 4 sections on the headphone connector. I looked around and found one that broadly fits the description.

    Unfortunately, Amazon or Ebay is not available in our country(Nepal) and that means I just have to do my own guess work with chineese products that has little to no documentation. The seller doesnt know what a raspberry pi is but he showed me it works in a TV box connected to the CRT and it has 4 sections on the 3.5mm pin. So I ordered it. Hopefully it works.