According to The Brewing Academy who sells the UAV, some important features include: I highly recommend it if you plan using your 800XL with a high-definition LCD or LED monitor. This is an awesome upgrade to the video of the 800XL and very popular among Atari hardware enthusiasts. The Ultimate Atari Video (UAV) mod was developed by Bryan Edewaard to fix this problem. It is much worse than what you get from an 800. For whatever reason, Atari decided to not attach the chroma signal in the 800XL giving it an inferior signal for conversion to S-video and HDMI. The Atari 800 and XE models all have a composite signal generated with both luma and chroma signals. The single channel of video is called composite because it creates a linear combination of the luminance (luma) that carries the brightness of the video along with the chrominance (chroma) that carries the color. This is a single-channel analog video signal that is connected to a monitor or TV through a yellow connector that is often found as part of an RCA connector that also includes red and white audio connectors for stereo sound. Needed: Web browser, soldering iron, UAV boardĪs I have previously reviewed, all of the Atari 8-bit computers have a monitor port that outputs a composite video signal.
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Task: Purchase and Install an Ultimate Atari Video (UAV) Board for Better Composite Video from Your 800XL