[net.micro] add-on TV tuners

HASTINGS%cmu-cs-c@sri-unix.UUCP (06/11/83)

From:  Gene Hastings <HASTINGS@cmu-cs-c>

	Check any of several (probably a dozen by now) makes of component TV
tuners (Sony Panasonic, NEC, etc...) or see about playing with the tuner in a
videocassette recorder or from a portable. Videotek sells a rack mount tuner
that looks like it came out of a Sony TV (and probably did), and Sony used to
make a thing called a "Tuner Timer" (TT-300, <$400) that was intended for use
with recorders that had no integral tuner- a table top unit styled to match
Sony's line of "industrial" Betamax recorders (Beta I). Check with any local
video dealer (both the kind in malls, and the kind that sells closed circuit
stuff to local schools). If there aren't any, pick up a copy of Video from the
newsstand and cruise the ads, ask for literature.

						Gene Hastings
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