22 Oct
2006
22 Oct
'06
3:21 p.m.
Does anyone have any experience running home computers, Commodores,
Sinclair's, Apple II's and the like on one of these modern LCD TV's.
Can they lock on to the cheap modulator signals or work with the
composite or RGB.
I'm thinking of getting rid of a bulky tv set and various rgb and black
and white monitors and use a modern solution.
Not really what you're asking, but I suspect the technology is similar :
I recently needed to show the output of an HP71 handheld computer to a
small audience, and I found that a borrowed video projector (which could
accept SVGA and composite video inputs) could display the composite
output of HP's 80 column video interface (which is a fairly normal
6845-based design, and which outputs composite monochrome video at RS-170
rates).
The only thing was it was best to tell the projector that it was getting
'NTSC' video rather than letting it autodetect. Maybe it was the absense
of the colourburst or something, but it sometimes got a bit confused.
Mu guess, without trying it [1] is that a modern LCD TV would have no
problems with home computer output.
[1] Personally, I'd rather have a CRT-based monitor that I can understand
and repair than an LCD thing full of big ASICs.
-tony
Roger