A Mechanical Television.

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:
http://www.mutr.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1376

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• tv
• televisor
• mutr
• mechanical
• television
• john
• logie
• baird
• nbtva
• nbtv
• narrow
• bandwidth

[Jenfucius]

Can someone kindly tell me how can one get one of these kits?

[MarbleMad]

I've added a link at the bottom of (more info).

[boxa888]

awesome! have you seen the screw mechanical tv, i was looking at that, and it almost looked like a normal tv screen,

[MarbleMad]

NICE.. Not seen that before.

The thought of that thing spinning round at 12 revolutions per second is terrifying :)

[celebration81]

Sorry , he was not the inventor of electronic television. Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi invented the electronic tv in 1926. UNESCO MEMORY OF THE WORLD Check it!

[MarbleMad]

this is a mechanical televisor. It pre-dates the electronic television.

[XroovenHalo3]

I WANNA' PLAY GTA 4 ON THAT THING!

[Mktryk]

The dancer was a woman.

[antifa7]

Does this kit involve soldering at all?

[bandet888]

I saw no picture, just a slowly flashing light.

[lartrak]

I find it hilarious and awesome that you're feeding a signal to a mechanical TV with an iPod!

[Jenfucius]

Oh thank you MarbleMad! I should have looked more carefully.

^_^

[celebration81]

Patents are facts. Patents and the date speak.

[AidanLunn]

plus, celebration81, who people believe was the inventor of the television depends on which country they come from. Americans believe Philo Farnsworth was the inventor, Britons = John Logie Baird, Russians = Vladimir Zworykin, Germans = Paul Nipkow, Japanese = Kenjiro Takayanagi etc, etc.