Re: FS: Apple IIc Flat Panel Display Monitor

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Tim Haynes replied:
>
> >"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >>
> >> The AppleColor Composite monitor does a "trick" that is completely
> >> non-standard:  it detects when the color burst is absent and boosts
> >> the luminance video bandwidth to 10+ MHz, making an 80-column
> >> display pretty good.  No "video" monitor will (or should) do this,
> >> since there is never any useful signal there in a standard video
signal.
> >
> >How hard would it be to make a box that does this (or would the TV just
> >ignore the extra bandwidth?).  I have no idea what I'm talking about, but
> >I'm imagining a black box that takes Apple II colour composite input and
> >outputs luminance-boosted NTSC to a TV.  If I am smoking crack, please
let
> >me know.  :-)
>
> Since the circuitry we are talking about is _inside_ the monitor, there
> is no external box that can change it.

Ah... thanks for the explanation.  If the display considers this extra data
to be noise, then there's not much we can do.

Thanks!
Tim