Re: AppleColor RGB and VCR?

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <rigby-12B8B7.17300903042000@news.ptdprolog.net>, Jon Harahush
<rigby@ptdprolog.net> wrote:


>Hi all,
>
>Lately I've been using an AppleColor Composite monitor IIc with a VCR 
>and speakers as a makeshift TV.


I use an old Mitsubishi green monitor (!) plugged into a worn out video
recorder. 


>Even though it states that its a color 
>monitor, it will NOT show color.  I've tried everything and it shows 
>shades of blue.


I've always had the opposite problem, trying to get a colour picture from an
Apple II on a TV. Here in New Zealand the TVs use PAL but the IIgs and the
later IIe computers were only available with NTSC output. Even using a
multistandard TV still produces a monochrome display.


>Is there a way to hook the VCR to an extra AppleColor 
>RGB monitor that I have lying around? (it's the IIGS monitor)
>
>-Jon.


The more expensive video recorders have RGB video output on scart
connectors. These will connect directly to an RGB monitor. Otherwise you
would require a composite video to RGB convertor; they exist but I don't
know where you would find a suitable one.

Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws
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