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Curious if you could have recorded say, 5 minutes of the channel and they played it back when you wanted to load a game. Assuming new games every month, you co
by ada1981 2y ago
Curious if you could have recorded say, 5 minutes of the channel and they played it back when you wanted to load a game. Assuming new games every month, you could fit a years worth of games in a VHS?
- ndiddy 2y agoYou wouldn't have been able to capture the signal with a VCR as it wouldn't have made it to your TV. You would have had to somehow record the modulated cable signal before it went into your cable box.
- fredoralive 2y agoIf it's anything like teletext, normal VHS wouldn't have the bandwidth, you might have some success with SVHS, although unlike teletext it might not be framed as a normal TV signal so the general tuner / recording circuitry might also have problems.
- jandrese 2y agoNot on a regular VHS cassette because it is transmitting data even during the vertical blanking periods. If you had a way to capture the channel signal raw it might work, but that would have been some expensive hardware in 1995.
- mixdup 2y agoNo, because it wasn't a true channel. It took two 6mhz "channels" on the cable system in that it occupied two 6mhz wide spots whose frequencies are in the cable TV bandplan, but the actual modulation of the RF would not have been recognizable as anything other than noise to NTSC tuners