Inexpensive color bar generator

18 Nov 2005 6:49 PM

Popeye

Do you know of an inexpensive, battery powered color bar generator?
Even a kit would be good. I have to think that in an age where you can
buy a DVD player for $40, that you should be able to buy a color bar
generator for less than that.

18 Nov 2005 11:29 PM

bernie

They make an awful lot of DVD players, but not too many colour bar
generators, therefore $40 might not be reachable. On the other hand it
depends how portable it need to be. PC and Mac editing systems can
produce bars, and so can most cameras down to the VX1000/2000 sort of
level

20 Nov 2005 9:27 AM

anthony

I know of a Sony DVD player that had an internal maintance section which
included an option to output color bars directly from the DVD player. I
was a little shocked it was built into it.

bernie wrote:
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> They make an awful lot of DVD players, but not too many colour bar
> generators, therefore $40 might not be reachable. On the other hand it
> depends how portable it need to be. PC and Mac editing systems can
> produce bars, and so can most cameras down to the VX1000/2000 sort of
> level
>

21 Nov 2005 5:50 PM

Howard Ring

What about a DVD copy? I believe AVIA and Video Essentials put out color
bars.

How

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"Popeye" <popeye22***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Do you know of an inexpensive, battery powered color bar generator?
> Even a kit would be good. I have to think that in an age where you can
> buy a DVD player for $40, that you should be able to buy a color bar
> generator for less than that.
>