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Yesterday, I received a cool portable black and white television from my father (thank you!). It is an old, black and white one meant to be used with a regular TV-antenna. It supports radio as well (FM/AM).

It is a Denver DTV-550, released (most likely) back in 2002. A very small unit, excellent for travelling. 😉 It has a battery compartment, but also the possibility of using a PSU of course.

I tested it the same day and it worked fine, although it is not possible to get any TV signals through the antenna anymore, since that way of distributing signals was shut down years ago. Radio worked fine though. 🙂

Now, while investigating the unit, I noticed that it had an Ext Ant port. First thing that came to mind was what kind of equipment can I connect to that? Had a look around on the Internet and found out that you could connect a unit with an RF-port via an adapter.

As it happens, I did actually have a fitting adapter, as well as a computer with an RF-port (actually more than one, but I wanted to take the MSX for a test drive).

As you can see from the photos above, hooking up the MSX to it was straight forward, but I was of course not sure if I would get a decent picture…

Fortunately, tuning it took only a few seconds, and I felt that it was easier than on other TV’s. The MSX and the TV was good to go. 🙂 It worked!

As always when I use the MSX, I had to try three games that I have on cartridge. These are Knightmare, Salamander and Circus Charlie. I made a super quick video lasting only a few seconds, which you can watch below. It shows Knightmare in demo mode.

Here are some screenshots of the TV in action:

It was fun testing the TV and I think it works great! 🙂

A big plus must go to the TV for decent audio. I think the quality is good, especially when using the radio. The image is not bad either for what it is. Easy to tune as well!

If you happen to stumble upon a TV like this with an Ext Ant port, it is plausible that you can hook up an old computer (or console to it) with an adapter.

That was all for now. Thanks for reading and have a good night (or day depending on where you are in the world)! 🙂