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Originally Posted by Maarten
The VR833/VR838/VR948 were actually for a large part designed by Grundig in the then fresh joint venture with Philips. I haven't checked the signal processing though, but it could be worthwhile.
I think the Philips VR716 had a sattelite tuner.
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The VR716 is an interesting beast
Yes, it has a satellite decoder. Looks to be a regular analogue/PAL setup to me - not some form of MAC, which would make RGB worthwhile.
Looking at the schematics, it doesn't output RGB. But it does have teletext. The outputs from the SAA5243 go straight into an MC1377 PAL encoder - and nowhere else. Like the Grundig machines...
But I note the
Radio Museum entry claims it has "direct output RGB". That's confusing.
Sadly I can't look at the first 3 machines you mention because I've again reached my Elektrotanya limit. I'll try again later.
All the best,
Mark