Re: What is with these silly monitors

[spierings <omgang@internex.net.au>]

> > I got my hands on two Apple IIe Color Composite monitors. I was hoping
> > that the RCA jack at the back would take a standard video signal. All is
> > fine except that everything is B&W.
>
> I notice that you are in Australia.  This suggests an obvious
> explanation: the monitor might be expecting NTSC, but you are supplying
> it with a PAL video signal.
>
> I've never run into an genuine Apple colour composite monitor in New
> Zealand, so I don't know whether they did a PAL version as well as an
> NTSC version.

I think it must do both from reading the manual.

> > I have tried from video player and AV Mac computer and I get the same
> > result.
>
> Did you try both NTSC and PAL from the Mac?

Yes they were both black and white. My video player also outputs both
signals.

Hmmm... why didn't they just use a standard video signal.

See ya,

Andre.