Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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A demo of the Gorman-Redlich/Trilithic EASy EAS-II encoder with its built-in character generator, otherwise known as the Trilithic SCG-1 character generator. The character generator shown operates similarly to the internal CG on the EASyPLUS, especially given that it can only do monochrome video. All of the possible color combinations are as follows:
0:00 - Black Characters, Gray Background
1:20 - White Characters, Gray Background
2:59 - White Characters, Black Background

Clips of this character generator are not very common to come across, with the only known proof of this character generator being a photo of a Severe Thunderstorm Warning formatted very similarly to this video.

Other than that, various other functions of the character generator can be found if you look hard enough. For example, the "trouble slide" this generates can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=GPXgMaqmPFI - and the automated station ID crawl can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=NOhC38NZhiI&t=315s (timestamped; else skip to 5:15)

None of these are my recordings. I would like to give thanks to Cable Contributes to Life for acquiring the EAS-II seen in the video and recording several clips for her Bluesky page:
bsky.app/profile/cctl.me/post/3m6lon4ults2o

(per the headers and the previously configured station ID crawl, this encoder/decoder originated from KNXT-LD in Visalia, CA.)