On May 3, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com> wrote:
It would be nice to figure out a good common TV set
that could be adapted
to Analog RGB or CGA.
CGA is less likely, since it's not really analog. Analog RGB is
already pretty well supported by SCART, but that's not much help
to those of us in the US or anywhere that's not Britain. It's
silly in a way, since the signal has to be converted to RGB
internally to display on the CRT, but most manufacturers weren't
interested in spending money on connectors and circuitry that
almost no one would use.
The Apple IIgs monitor scans at 15 KHz, though, so it's actually
a pretty good candidate for analog RGB. I use it to test arcade
boards, which generally scan at 15 KHz as well. Any other arcade
monitor ought to do the trick. It's harder to find VGA monitors
that will do it (even LCDs, which is a shame because it's really
only a matter of firmware with them).
Clarification to the above: 15 KHz refers to the horizontal scan
rate; vertical (in the US) is 30 or 60 Hz, depending on how you
count the interlaced frames if you have them (arcade monitors are
generally not interlaced, but TVs and anything that takes the
standard composite TV signal are).
- Dave