Re: Video converter board

[madmax_2069@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (madmax2069)]

 > > On Jun 10, 8:18ï¿œpm, mojoehand <mojoeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
 > > I am trading for a 15 inch LCD with 1024x768 native resolution.
I'll
 > > test it this weekend and see if it makes any difference. Going
to
 > > 1024x768 on the scan doubler and then natively to the LCD may
look
 > > better. My current not-quite-spare LCD is 1280x1024, which the
scan
 > > doubler doesn't support.
 > > 
 > mojoehand wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > I just hooked up the 15" LCD. Using the scan doubler set to
640x480,
 > it looked about the same as the 17" LCD. Setting the scan
doubler to
 > output 1024x768 (native resolution of the 15" LCD), things
look
 > noticeably better. The desktop pattern is still shown as vertical
 > lines, but the pattern is more even. The text and graphics also
look
 > sharper. So, doing away with the extra upscaling that the 17"
LCD was
 > doing to 1280x1024, is a significant improvement (I sort of
expected
 > this).
 > 
 > At least with this particular scan doubler, having it upscale to
the
 > native resolution of the LCD gives the best results. Simply scan
 > doubling to 640x480 and having the LCD upscale to its native
 > resolution is not as good. Of course, I have only tried two
different
 > run-of-the-mill PC LCD displays. A better PC LCD or a good LCD TV
may
 > be different. And as touched on earlier, a CRT will probably
produce
 > the best results.

i remember reading this site http://www.maricondo.org/ and a few
others like it about using a TV as the IIgs's monitor.

A standard def TV will improve the dithering effect by alot vs using a
HDTV or LCD monitor, but the text i am seeing looks like crap when
compared to the text on a HDTV or LCD monitor (sometimes not
readable). I'm using a 21" SONY trinitron by using the composite
input, it does have a RGB component and S-video input but no way for
me to use them for the IIgs right now.

you could see about trying a CRT based monitor that has a lower native
resolution 640x480 which should improve things even more when you set
the board at the same setting. doing that could make it close to
around what i am seeing when it comes to dithering but have allot
better looking text then what i see. That board will help out allot
with the text being displayed but could hinder the dithering effect
used on the IIgs to make most of its colors.

i do know that sometimes (depends on the hardware used) the closer
that you can get the monitor to the real IIgs resolution output the
better the dithering effect will be.