Nubus TV Tuner

#1 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 - 01:33 68kMLA

Things I did not know existed:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aapps-Micro-TV-MT-100N-MTV001B-Vintage-Nubus-TV-Tuner-Card-Apple-Macintosh-/251163257118

A Nubus Tv tuner card - rare find!!
Aaps microTV MT-100N

Also has daughter board "aaps video professional expansion rev C"

Pity that analog TV transmission is disappearing - though it does look like the board has sockets for composite I/O as well.

#2 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 - 01:49 68kMLA

I'm baffled why it has the onboard speaker instead of popping it through the internal audio like Apple's pwn A/V cards.

#3 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 - 02:08 68kMLA

Probably that card was totally independent of motherboard and processor. That way it wasn't limited like the Mac tv.

#4 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 - 04:18 68kMLA

They exist, I have one somewhere. With the death of Analog TV they are kind of useless. Sure you can use a converter box to feed it a signal but anything with A/V input can do that as well since all converter boxed have RCA out at least.

#5 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 - 04:35 68kMLA

What kind of useless?

Go get some old B movies and a VCR at goodwill and play them on a Mac just for kicks!

Heck, blockbusters on VHS are on sale for a dollar or less a lot of places.

I saw that one and almost listed it here, but didn't have the time.

There's a NuBus Adapter for a Quadra 610 available for a bit yet over on eBay right now.

#6 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 - 12:27 68kMLA

I may be misremembering some of this, but I believe Aaps was founded by Nolan Bushnell.

As for the hardware, there were both B&W and color cards. The B&W card, at least, would only work in 24-bit mode with an DA interface. ISTR there also being an SDK for the cards, including HyperCard support.