Uploaded December 2006 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is an 'attempt' to film the image generated by a small kit built mechanical TV: the MUTR televisor. The kit came with a CD containing some footage but I found this almost completely unusable. I had much more success generating a broadcast signal myself and playing it into the 'televisor' from my i-pod. The image is tricky to view as you have to sit dead square onto the tiny image and it's ever harder to film. The light diffusor works ok on the naked eye but the LED appear to shine straight through and into the camera lens causing an annoying hot spot on the movie. Also the annoying vertical black bar you see scanning over the image is an artefact generated by the lack of synchronisation between the televisor and my digi-cam. You don't see that in real life.
I'd have to devise some very accurate way of altering the playback speed to tune that out.
The kit can be found here:
mutr.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1376
This is an 'attempt' to film the image generated by a small kit built mechanical TV: the MUTR televisor. The kit came with a CD containing some footage but I found this almost completely unusable. I had much more success generating a broadcast signal myself and playing it into the 'televisor' from my i-pod. The image is tricky to view as you have to sit dead square onto the tiny image and it's ever harder to film. The light diffusor works ok on the naked eye but the LED appear to shine straight through and into the camera lens causing an annoying hot spot on the movie. Also the annoying vertical black bar you see scanning over the image is an artefact generated by the lack of synchronisation between the televisor and my digi-cam. You don't see that in real life.
I'd have to devise some very accurate way of altering the playback speed to tune that out.
The kit can be found here:
mutr.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1376
