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  • Component Video (Re: Monitors)

    From supertimer@supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 28, 2003 06:28:49
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    "Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:

    http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=53&products_id=639&PHPSESSID=9d064 >fbf4cc8ebc0ce641bdbf4d4cad8

    $70 is still a lot considering that Radio Shack used to sell an RF modulator >for $20 that will do the same thing, it just requires a +12 VDC source. >Similarly, a person could just route the composite signal to the video input >port of a VCR.

    I'm interested in trying to preserve the "crispness" of an RGB setup, and I >find that a good LCD monitor doesn't produce nearly as much eye strain after >many hours of use as a traditional monitors.

    You are right. To use IIGS software, you need RGB.
    The composite video output is too fuzzy to read.

    Even S-Video is not quite up to the task. There was
    a device called the Video Turtle that converted the
    RGB output to S-Video. IIGS software was actually
    usable on a TV with S-Video with this device but it
    still lacked crispness of RGB.

    Now that the future is obviously HDTV and pretty
    much all televisions in the next few years will have
    component video input, it seems obvious that a
    IIGS RGB to component video converter is the
    answer because component video is still 15kHz
    but has the sharpness of the IIGS RGB.
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  • From mjmahon@mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 28, 2003 08:21:02
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    Supertimer wrote:

    "Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:

    http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=53&products_id=639&PHPSESSID=9d064 >>fbf4cc8ebc0ce641bdbf4d4cad8

    $70 is still a lot considering that Radio Shack used to sell an RF modulator >>for $20 that will do the same thing, it just requires a +12 VDC source. >>Similarly, a person could just route the composite signal to the video input >>port of a VCR.

    I'm interested in trying to preserve the "crispness" of an RGB setup, and I >>find that a good LCD monitor doesn't produce nearly as much eye strain after >>many hours of use as a traditional monitors.

    You are right. To use IIGS software, you need RGB.
    The composite video output is too fuzzy to read.

    Even S-Video is not quite up to the task. There was
    a device called the Video Turtle that converted the
    RGB output to S-Video. IIGS software was actually
    usable on a TV with S-Video with this device but it
    still lacked crispness of RGB.

    Now that the future is obviously HDTV and pretty
    much all televisions in the next few years will have
    component video input, it seems obvious that a
    IIGS RGB to component video converter is the
    answer because component video is still 15kHz
    but has the sharpness of the IIGS RGB.

    I agree. And it should be doable with a simple analog
    matrixing/buffering circuit.

    -michael

    Check out amazing quality 8-bit Apple sound on my
    Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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