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Analog TV Station on ESP8266

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2016–2024
peak thread · 73 comments
365 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-10-04
132 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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You all might also enjoy analog TV encoding/decoding in your browser: https://substack.net/tv based on these repositories: https://github.com/substack/glsl-ntsc-video - modulate and demodulate an ntsc video signal in a shader https://github.com/substack/ntsc-video-simulator - real-time ntsc television simulator https://github.com/substack/analog-tv-simulation - the demo itself

rashkov·365-point thread·

Someone else recently using the code to test second-hand TVs: https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/113235301898075851

Aissen·132-point thread·

> You may say "But nyquist says you can't transmit or receive frequencies at more than 1/2 the sample rate (40 MHz in this case). To a degree that is true. Some people thought it may be overtones, but what happens in reality something stranger happens. Everything you transmit is actually mirrored around 1/2 the sample rate (40 MHz). For anyone interested this is called aliasing. If you've ever noticed wheels going backwards in racing or train footage, this is…

kaoD·70-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
576

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
109

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2016-01-31Channel3: ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interfaceingve90
2016-02-23ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interfacenkurz7013
2020-12-07Analog TV Station on ESP8266First breakout · Best threaddvfjsdhgfv36573
2024-10-04ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television InterfaceLatest 20+ point return_Microft13223