Re: IIgs RGB to YPbPr Component experiment

["jsnospam@cimmeri.com" <js@cimmeri.com>]

> >> I was thinking of experimenting with an RGB SCART to VGA  converter that I had read about at www.amiga.org but haven't wanted to  spend the $250 for the effort yet.
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> > * I spent around $150 total for this particular setup.
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> If there is interest in such a setup, it would be possible to make the adapter much less expensively--its just a few video opamps and some resistors, plus the cabling and connectors.

No offense to Michael, but I can't help but wonder what the focus is
(if there is a wider one) on having something for nothing?   ~$150 *is*
cheap, and getting stuff for $10 on eBay is twisting people's cost
expectations into the absurd.    Has anyone looked at a 1980's-1990's
computer magazine lately to see the prices of early Apple stuff?   I
paid well over $300 for a 300 baud Hayes Micromodem in 1984; around
that for monitors too.   The stuff seems expensive in today's dollars,
and was super expensive in those years' dollars.  Yet many of us bought
the stuff!   And at that time, I earned about $4 an hour!

A $150 RGB device converted to the dollar value back then would have
been a steal.

Trying to make a IIgs RGB adaptor now... which entails incredibly low
sales volume...  for anything less than $100-$150 is just not giving
the guy who has to make them any incentive to do so.    It's a lot of
time to make one of these!     And why should anyone make one when a
(fairly certain) solution exists at near the same price?

I know that some people out there out of the kindness of their heart
make peripherals at little to no profit.    That's foolishness, and I
would never want to take advantage of someone in that way.      When I
"win" something on eBay for 100 cents because no one else bid on it,
yet I know it's worth more than that, I'll pass them a token amount of
more money out of gratitude for all the time it takes for them to pack
and ship the damn thing to me.   No one has ever done this for me, of
course.



> Since power is available at the IIgs video connector, it should not be necessary to have an external wall wart.

My Keene adaptor requires a minimum of a 300ma 12-18v DC adaptor..
which just happens to be what my HP printer uses.. so when I'm not
using the bubblejet, I plug the power into the Keene.   I don't know,
but I'd be surprised if the IIgs could source a 1/3rd of an amp out of
the RGB port.

~ J