Re: A Response

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article "Jason Whorton" <chesster@pcl.net> writes...

>Jim Krych <ab453@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote in article
><63be1f$ef5@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>...
>> 
>> To those who have questioned both the quaility of output from the
>> VideoTurtle, and the "endorsement" we got From Mr. Turley.
>
>According to your post, the cost for the Video Turtle would be ($149.95,
>plus $5 S&H).The cable costs (21.95).  This totals up to be $176.90, IF you
>already have a TV with S-Video.  I believe most people do not have an
>S-Video TV, and therefore would have to buy one.  You stated that they are
>in the 20" and above range, thus the price of the TV is in the $225+ range
>(remember sales tax), to the best of my ability to estimate cost compared
>to 19" TV's with no S-Video connector.  This puts the individual in the
>$400+ range, which although gets the person a new TV and a bigger screen,
>is a far greater cost than a used AppleColor RGB Monitor, plus shipping.  I
>believe that if one were to add up the total cost, then one might be
>discouraged from purchase of the Video Turtle.

    One other catch I could see with this product, your still using a
standard television set. As most people here know, most TV sets do not
have a high enough bandwidth to display 80 column text. 

    I would also question SVHS color quality compared with RGB. If I
remember correctly, SVHS works in a similar fashion to monitors with
separate chroma/luma inputs. In otherwords color and brightness is 
feed through separate lines for improved color and picture quality. 
My guess is this works somewhat like a Video Overlay Card when used 
for outputing composite video from a IIgs (the GS already has an NTSC
out port, but in most cases you get a mess with native Super-Hi-Res
graphics. That is one of the reasons an RGB monitor is a requirement 
for color). As much as I dislike the Second Sight, I would rather 
get that and connect it to an SVGA monitor than a TV set (besides
which, TV have scanlines, stuck at 60 Hz refresh and have a less
lines of resolution and higher dot-pitch than PC monitors :). Do
word-processing on my TV? No thanks... ;-)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca