Re: What GSE-Reactive Really Needs to Make

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Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Perhaps a set with component inputs would do things better.  Frankly,
> I expected that when I fed the video into the Luminance input of the
> S-video connector, the resolution would be stunning--but it wasn't.
> At present, I have to assume that many monitors combine processing
> for S-video and composite very soon after they enter the set, and
> don't have high expectations for either one.  ;-(

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>
> This may be a simple artifact of the LCD monitor I was testing, since
> it also thinks it is a TV receiver.

> Both my 32" Sony WEGA CRT and my Samsung 17" LCD did a good job
> with composite, 40-column text, etc.--not to be confused with a high
> resolution image, just a big image.  Games would be fine.

I take this to mean that 80-columns were not usable?

I've been frustrated by my lack of a wideband composite-input monitor
for 80 column work; I have a few cheap TVs, all of which are
unreadable. I could possibly justify a purchase of one of those Dell
DVI/VGA/composite LCD displays, but no one seems to spec the composite
interface bandwidth, and most of the video-to-digital converter chips I
was able to google for had built-in lowpass filters below the 14 MHz or
so that the old Apple monochrome monitors had.