Re: What GSE-Reactive Really Needs to Make

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <1140214229.955523.180310@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com <josephoswald@gmail.com> wrote:
>The market for analog monitors is quickly developing into
>
>1) LCD TVs that expect HD or SD video; I believe most of the composite
>inputs for these will filter out what they expect to be composite
>audio+video from a legacy DVD or VCR player; i.e. unusable for 80
>column video.
>
>2) LCD monitors that accept VGA-style video inputs (treating them as
>analog RGB with the VGA sync), either on a DB-15 or DVI connector, but
>typically no composite input.

An HD LCD with component input should display usable 80-column text and
monochrome graphics if you run a cable from the video output to the Y input
and leave Cb and Cr disconnected.  It won't be color, but that wasn't an
issue with most of the software I used back in the day.

(Maybe I should try testing this theory sometime.  My TV is a 30" widescreen
LCD with a native resolution of 1280x768.  The only input currently in use
is DVI from the MythTV box, so one of the component inputs should work.)

If you want color, you could just switch to a composite input.  Any display
with component input should also have composite input.

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