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Choclo

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Hello dear community,
I bought some Atari 2600 paddles on Ebay the other day, the buyer was so nice and just packed a surprise for me. 🎁
I had to laugh a lot when I saw it, I have never seen such a thing before.
It's an Interton Video 3000 that was released in 1976.

Of course I plugged the console in straight away, but unfortunately I can't get a proper signal from it.
I can see that there is a signal, but that's the best I can manage.


In my photos you can see that there is a signal and that the console also works (0:0)


The console is powered by a 9 volt block battery.
On the console itself, you can readjust the frequency.

 

Does anyone have an idea how I can get this jewel to work?
Is the signal from it perhaps too weak?
 

Thanks a lot
Cheers
Choclo

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Or use a VCR tuner.

But yeah, CRT made after 2000 in Europe usually have a very hard time picking up console signals.

Also, those consoles were almost never pre-tuned to a defined canal so you should also try to use fine tuning as it's unlikely the signal is precisely on canal 36.

I suppose you tried to tune the signal on the system itself?

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Ooooh... This is going to be exciting. 😛
The only thing older than that is my JVC Videosphere (1970). 🚀
I will definitely try that out.
 

Many thanks and best regards

@CatPix Yeah, i tried every single mhz 😅 also in the system itself.

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That is assuming the Videosphere lets you tune in channels continuously. I know in the early days the VHF channels 5-12 and 2-4 (speaking Europe here) tended to be fixed with e.g. a rotary wheel while UHF 21-69 was free flowing if the TV even supports UHF frequencies. Many of the oldest consoles tend to use low VHF frequencies but every now and then you come across one in the UHF range.

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It worked great on the Videosphere!
The picture dances up and down a bit, but it works. 😄
Of course I would have preferred an AV mod, then I could simply switch it to the Atari and the Intellivision via an AV switch.
Well, you can't have everything.
 

Now I had to look at the rotary potentiometers, they are still quite inaccurate. (maybe just clean it)
 

@carlsson The Radio Cassette TV is awesome!

 

 

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