Anybody have analog TV test equipment? What's your thoughts on maintaining it?
I have a modular generator, Tek TG2000 and the only thing it has done in the last 16 months is provided some analog signals for Video triggering or some CATV optioned spectrum analyzers. I wonder if it's relevant anymore for US market.
It's probably a fairly narrow "niche" market. I just had a TG2000 come in for cal (along with a VM700) that we couldn't cal (for all the obvious 75-Ohm/NTSC/PAL reasons). There are companies that produce electronics that need to test video things for international markets. The company I recently left was doing cal's for a major global company. We supported cal's related to production that had to comply with NTSC, PAL, and even some Russian video protocol (whose name I don't recall). We couldn't cal them and had to send them out.
The change I think is only to the U.S. television market. There are still requirements in international and related markets that will likely be around for a while. The issue I think is whether you support those markets.
we still support analog video at NASA, but i expect not for too much longer