I build instruments that break analog video signals on purpose, and I document the damage with the same precision I'd use if I were fixing it. Scientifically broken.
[DRAFT COPY — react freely. The figures below are pulled straight from the bench archive; captions carry the parameters that made each image.]
FIG. 1 — Chroma door at glitch onset. Subject silhouette re-rendered by a bent color subcarrier.Control-resistance drive at onset band · four LDR cells paralleled into the CR node · one of two attractor states at this setpoint (bistable).FIG. 2 — Bend sweet spot, shot live off the Trinitron. At capture time the certified decoder could not lock a single field of this signal — only a CRT would display it.470 pF + 330 Ω, Purple→GND · relay-switched bend instrument · 13.5 MS/s capture chain.
