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Jag Decoder & CV Encoder

Lab Rat · 200x · Console
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Catalogue IDCVH-0196
ManufacturerLab Rat
Year200x (approximate)
TypeConsole (Core)
PlatformColecoVision
StatusReleased
SourceHomebrew Systems & Mods 96-19

Notes

A pair of boards handling video conversion between an Atari Jaguar and a ColecoVision - a decoder on one side and an encoder on the other.

What that means

  • A decoder takes a composite signal apart into its components; an encoder builds a composite signal from them.
  • Chaining the two is how video is cleaned up, or converted between formats, when no single part does the job.

Lab Rat's known ColecoVision work is video modification - an S-video mod, catalogued here, published on their own site and worked through on the AtariAge forums - so a pair of video conversion boards fits the same line of work.

WHAT THIS PARTICULAR PAIR DOES, and why a Jaguar part is involved, are not recorded and want establishing from the items. A Jaguar decoder chip being repurposed for a ColecoVision is a plausible reading but not a documented one.