Re: An LCD for your IIGS?

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

Ed Eastman wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> Would any IIGS enthusiast care to try making
>> a IIGS RGB to Component Video adapter cable?
>> That would be the ultimate IIGS display because
>> televisions with component video and capable of
>> displaying HDTV resolution pictures are the
>> future.
>
>This has been done years ago, off the shelf.  I had an old projector 
>with component input.  I used a VGA to component cable and an old mac 
>multisynch to VGA plug.  It works rather well so long as it s not a 
>newer projector that won't synch down to 15KHz.

But the question about IIgs RGB to component video still stands.

It should require nothing more than some analog matrixing
and buffers, but I haven't seen it done.

And if it is used with a CRT display (projection or direct view)
it should produce a great display.  The question is, how will it
look on a discrete pixel display, like an LCD or DLP?

The only experiment in this area that I have heard of so far,
indicates that there is an annoying "pixel dither" which is
particularly apparent on vertical lines (e.g.: in characters).

-michael

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