On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, John Foust wrote:
The CoCo 2 has an RF output on channel 3. You
need a device that can
tune to analog channel 3, then output something your new TV can handle.
Like the Coco 1, it should be TRIVIAL to tap a composite video signal
(almost-NTSC)
WHgen I was using a UK CoCo 2, I found it tirivial to take the composite
signal at the input to the modulator module and send it to a composite
monitor.
If your TV still has an analog cable tuner, did
you try that?
If your TV doesn't have a tuner, a tightwad alternative is an old VCR that
can tune to 3, then output to composite or S-Video.
output into a DVD RECORDER, write DVDs, carry them over to a PC, and play
them there :-)
There ARE cheap TVs available, that DO have analog tuners.
A couiple of of years ago we bought a Sony LCD TV. This thing has a wide
variety of inputs (one of the reasons we bought it) and both analogue and
digitial tuner/dcoder circuits (so it will handle the RF output of UK
home computers). Apart fro ma few HDMI inputs, it also has a pair of
SCART sockets (giving composite video, S video and analogue RGB inputs),
a DE15 socket (VGA input, although not that many different scan rates),
composite input on an RCA socketand ;component video'. I assume soemthing
simialr exists now.
-tony