On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Herbert Fung wrote:
That may be a misreading of the statement, I'm not sure. It used to be that tv sets didn't have video input jacks, so the only way to connect a computer was through an RF modulator, and the tv set's antenna jack. In Europe, SCART was there which meant there was an input jack. I suspect that's what they've meant, rather than that the tv sets displayed better when used as monitors.I've been wondering about possible alternate video outputs for the GS. Some threads I've read seem to indicate that SCART monitor is ideally suited to display native GS video, but those are hard to come by in North America.
That's changed now. I got a 22" LCD tv set in May, the first tv set I've ever bought new, and it has VGA, HDMI and NTSC inputs. I've not tried it with a computer, but the ease of use is certainly there.
Gee, for over a decade I've used a Commodore monitor as a tv set, connected to a VCR (originally, the VCR was a broken one, couldn't use tapes, so I used it just as a tuner). With DTV about to happen here in Canada, that arrangement isn't going to be useful other than for watching things on the VCR, hence the new TV set. And I'll have the monitor ready for use with a computer.
Michael