another reason to delay - eBay AV 2600 arrival

The Atari 2600 Jr. with AV conversion which I bought on eBay arrived today. Of course I set this up for testing instead of finishing denial '77 - any excuse for delay :)

Well, it certainly generates an AV signal rather than the RF signal. Unfortunately it is not the correct signal.
This was tested on 4 TVs using 3 different display technologies (CRT, plasma, LCD) and was consistently wrong on each one.

The new eBay purchased 2600 + AV (photograph of plasma TV with phone camera) - the image produced is more stable than the RF one but most of the colour information is missing.

Most of the colour luminance information seems to be missing. Rather than providing a range of luminance in each colour it produces a single luminance, white and black for each colour.

crappy display, but at least the colours are correct

My other RF connected 2600 (photograph of plasma TV with phone camera) - the image produced is not as good as I would like, but at least all of the colours are produced.

perfect emulator version for comparison - sadly the real version will never look this good :)