3 Nov
2006
3 Nov
'06
12:50 p.m.
Rumor has it that Julian Wolfe may have mentioned these words:
No really, just buy a $100 scanconverter. It's not
worth the hassle. What's
your time worth?
Again, http://www.converters.tv has what you need.
Or, 2 other options:
1) add $50-100 bucks for an el-cheapo LCD-TV, which should accept
NTSC rates, have an SVideo jack, and still support VGA. I paid $188 for my
15" on sale, and it has all three (Composite, NTSC and 1024x768 VGA), and
works pretty decently.
2) See if a classic-based upconverter already exists for your computer. Roy
Justus has a VGA upconverter for the Tandy CoCo3, and Chris Hawks has an
SVideo upconverter for the same -- they're both looking at "expanding the
field" to other classic computers so to speak.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Barry Watzman
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 1:30 PM
> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> Subject: New monitors on old machines
>
> Well, I wonder what the chances are that an LCD monitor would
> work with CGA inputs (dropped down to the proper voltage
> levels). The question gets back to the sync issue. But it
> would not surprise me if some of them might not actually have
> been designed to accept NTSC TV scan rates.
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