18 Jun
2020
18 Jun
'20
1:45 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Amiga Vendors?
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:39:44PM -0400, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
[...]
course
The early plasma TVs usually had BNC RGBHV inputs
and such. They could
take VGA in very easily. I'm pretty sure a PC would have been way
easier to deal with and could reach much higher resolutions... without
needing a DB-23 connector :-)
Everything had RGB on this side of the Pond. There was a protectionist
decree that all TVs sold in France would have a SCART socket, but of this just meant that pan-European models sprouted
SCART sockets and the
French TV industry was back to square one. Old standards never die, and
the
TV I bought in 2018 has a SCART socket and would quite
probably decode
SECAM but I have no SECAM sources to test it (and they'll even be rare in
France these days).
The latest TVs do not have anything other tan HDMI. I bought a pile of
converter boxes that take SCART and convert to HDMI but for old VGA machines
I am just hanging on to my monitors.
DB-23 to SCART cables were (and still are)
readily-available from anywhere
that has anything to do with the Amiga. Sometimes they had sawn-down DB-
25 plugs since DB-23 wasn't exactly a common connector even in the Amiga's
heyday.
Dave