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.