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Video Overlay on all Channels Simultaneously
miketinte wrote:
I want to overlay an image or text (perhaps through CC programming?) on all channels of my home's cable system (NTSC). What's the simplest way to do this? Has anyone done something similar to this before and can offer some sage advice? Sort of... http://www.decadenet.com/bob2/bob2.html $79.95 each. You program the text from your computer's serial port. You would put one on each TV after the cable box, because it has to work on baseband video not RF. I think this is the simplest way and much cheaper than trying to do something with each RF channel. -Dan Barlow |
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Video Overlay on all Channels Simultaneously
Thanks for your response.
I was kind of going for a DIY (or solder yourself) type project. Mainly because of costs involved with the pre-fab solution. Basically, I want to display this image OVER the television show that is being watched without any interruption. The trick here is, I want to inject this image into the main splitter of my home's cable TV system. We've gone almost totally DVD, so only one of the TVs in my house is a VCR and anything involving a VCR is out of the question. How feasible is this still? |
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Video Overlay on all Channels Simultaneously
miketinte wrote:
Thanks for your response. I was kind of going for a DIY (or solder yourself) type project. Mainly because of costs involved with the pre-fab solution. Basically, I want to display this image OVER the television show that is being watched without any interruption. The trick here is, I want to inject this image into the main splitter of my home's cable TV system. We've gone almost totally DVD, so only one of the TVs in my house is a VCR and anything involving a VCR is out of the question. How feasible is this still? I would say possible but even more expensive. The signals in the cable aren't "lined up" in such a way that you can affect all of them at once. You would have to somehow separate out each channel, get it down to baseband NTSC, detect sync, put in either your closed caption message or your overlay, convert back to rf, and combine each channel at its proper frequency. You can do the first part with a big pile of surplus cable boxes. The overlay you can build yourself but it's a bit complex. I did a quick Google search and there are a few projects out there but most people have gone to using a PC video capture and output card to do this kind of thing. You can get a whole pile of RF modulators cheap as surplus too, but the channels will all come out as 3 or 4. Getting channels shifted back up to their original "address" is going to be interesting. There are circuits to frequency- shift a channel but they're not mass-market so they tend to be quite expensive. http://www.tonercable.com/Toner%20We...ON-OTM3550.pdf http://www.multicominc.com/Manufactu...e/page%208.pdf Then you use a big reverse-splitter to combine all the outputs and shove it into your house's cable. I don't want to discourage you, but this is in fact a lot more complicated than you'd expect. -Dan Barlow |
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