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it would have been a better choice for a B&W display, yeah!

The Watchman was used in the Swedish movie "Jönssonligan får guldfeber" as a fictional portable game console (with some fake control buttons glued on the front), with an actor pretending that he's playing Pole Position on it:

github.com/ssshake/pi-u... suggests the Hlly TVX-50M as a more expensive but slightly less janky option, should handle NTSC correctly but is still weak enough that you shouldn't get in trouble with any local hams

Well at least having to do home broadcast resulted in Real Content on TV.

Nice twist on the Rickroll. 👍🏻

we been rolled.....

I had a video up on Twitter of a 4" Watchman-style CRT I extracted from an old video door phone thingy, but that seems to be gone now. Excellent, weird tech. Which, of course, I used emulators & old tech on.

One tiny extra amp to the transformer, and the FCC comes flooding in

My older sister had an older style of pocket TV, likely from the 80s where it was a "clamshell" design, where you opened it, and it had a mirror on one surface, and the only way to backlight it was to use ambient light, or the sun shining through the screen. I think it was a Casio?