18 Aug
2006
18 Aug
'06
3:11 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
[a Sinclair Flat Screen TV?]
If you want to use one, try to get the entire TV. You
need some scan
correction (Due to the different distance of the 2 edges of the screen
from the gun, the natural raster is wedge-shaped!). The Microvision TV
contains a custom chip (22 pins IIRC) that contains this stuff, the scan
oscillators, the IF strip, and so on. Fortuately, it is possible to feed
composite video into it somwhow (I forget the exact details, I have some
notes _somewhere_.
This seems to be (quite?) a bit larger than the watchman.
As if they aimed for *flat* (whereas sony aimed for "small").
Given your other comments (and the fact that it is probably
going to be harder to find than even a watchman would be!),
I'll probably take a pass on it :>