Re: fxtv

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 09:48:52 +0100
David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 21:44, Tobias Nygren <tnn%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > [...]
> > multimedia/fxtv: remove
> >
> > Analog PAL/NTSC television broadcasts have ended in most of the world.
> > This is this unlikely to be usable any more.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition
> 
> Unless it's causing build issues I'd like to suggest keeping fxtv -
> IIRC it can be quite useful for viewing the display output from older
> home computers on something with a PCI slots. All retrocomputing, but
> still quite workable. (The machine with my Hauppauge card is packed
> away at the moment so I can't directly test)
> 
> Would definitely support the DESCR being updated :)

I would suggest using a uvideo(4) composite video adapter instead
for this exercise. But sure, I'll put it back.