That is amazing
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Had a Game Gear and really wanted one of these as a kid.
Still have that Game Gear and still really want one.
I wanted it so bad. Then my friend had one and it was shit. And i still wanted it.
Unfortunately it would still be able to pick up the signal but the Tuner wouldn't be able to convert the newer digital format.
I remember the Italian TV commercial for that.
It's times like this I wish I had a bigger house. There's so much of this old tech I just want, or at least I want to see and hold them. Basically I want a hands-on retro gaming museum.
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Back in the day I had the portible TurboGFX with TV tunner. Seemed so cool but rarely got that much use.
I understand why they think they needed to do it, but killing analog OTA television was seriously the stupidest decision I’d ever seen prior to 2009.
After that it kinda started to happen a lot. Which, uh, must be coincidence.
Several of those old portables had tv tuners. None of them work anymore, at least not the USA.
There is a project out there that transmits video on UHF or VHF over short distances, basically a work around for old analog tuners. Basically hook up a video source and it will encode and transmit so you can watch stuff on gadgets with these old tuners.
Also, I don't recall if they all have the a/v in functionality like this one, but that provided another option for using the thing as a monitor for other things.
I still have the box for mine that advertises the TV tuner. I always wondered if there were other attachments too.
I yearned for one of these TV tuners for years and never got one cause they were too expensive.