Re: best way to get a //c monitor cable?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Greg Andrzejewski asked:

>"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:keKYc.11635$9e2.5694@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com...
>> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>> >
>> > >I've found that using a good shielded cable made all the difference in
>> the
>> > >world with my //c+ and 61" Samsung DLP TV.
>> >
>> > And I'm guessing that this is a 10ft-12ft cable, right?
>>
>> That is about the distance from TV to the recliner/TV tray... playing
>Apple
>> II games on the big screen is something else.
>>
>>
>How's 80 columns look on that bad boy?

The long cable will cause a low-capacitance per foot design
to make a visible difference, where it would be invisible in a
3ft cable.

I'm sure that Sean will tell us that the composite color video
display of 80-column text is about like any other (non-AppleColor
Composite) color monitor--crummy.  This is a natural consequence
of TV decoding of the composite color signal.

I have never seen a TV that detected the absence of a color
burst (as with Apple text displays) and turned off its chroma filtering
and widened the luminance bandwidth to get a crisp monochrome
display.  That's the very peculiar magic that the AppleColor
Composite monitor does to make even 80-column text quite
pleasant.

-michael

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