Re: RGB to component video cable IIGS?

[Tilghman Lesher <tilghman@nospam.the-tilghman.com>]

Supertimer wrote:

> It is 2002 and HDTV units are finally starting to fly off the
> shelves.  Just six months ago, industry naysayers were
> calling high definition television a flop but recently sales
> have begun to pick up.  More importantly, even the non-
> HDTV models have become more quality oriented.  The
> good TVs out there now have component video input so
> that red, green, and blue signals are fed into the TV on
> separate data paths.
> 
> The Apple IIGS RGB port outputs standard (in Canada &
> the USA) NTSC frequency video on separate red, green
> and blue channels.  Has anyone made a IIGS RGB to
> component video cable?  Does Alltech have one?  Does
> anyone have a pinout to make such a cable.
> 
> In the future, I will be jumping on the high quality TV
> bandwagon and I would like to ressurect by IIGS at the
> same time and since I was always a fanatic when it
> came to using the IIGS to its maximum capabilities,
> composite video out just does not cut it!

Sequential Systems at one time made a SVGA-card called
Second Sight.  Although it won't improve the quality of
the image for most applications (only for applications
written to support it), I can imagine finding an adapter
box for SVGA-to-HDTV will be easier than finding
IIGS-to-HDTV.

Sequential is no longer in the Apple II business, and I
don't know if anybody is still carrying any existing stock
on the cards, but you might check eBay or the .marketplace
groups to see if somebody has one they're willing to part
with.

-Tilghman