Re: Monitor with BNC inputs

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:

>Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
>: Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>: : I eventually intend to replace my dead AppleColor RGB monitor
>: : and while looking through a video catalog of professional video
>: : monitors, I saw models with "BNC inputs."  Are these
>: : compatible with the 15Khz RGB output of the IIGS?  Thanks!
>
>: That means there's a separate connector for red, green, and blue. BNC con-
>: nectors are the same as you use with thin coax ethernet cables. And I would
>: highly doubt that any such monitor would work on a IIgs.
>
>Q:  What is the sync frequency of the monitor?  Actually, it is very
>likely that you might be able to use such a monitor with the IIgs, but you
>will need to obtain a cable to split the red, green, and blue inputs from
>the IIgs RGB output and send them to the monitor.
>
>This is assuming, of course, that the monitor does indeed have separate
>red, green, blue (and possibly sync) inputs.  Just because the monitor has
>BNC connectors does not necessarily mean it has RGBS inputs.

The monitor has three BNC connectors and the sync frequency is
NTSC.  Is this compatible with the IIGS if a cable can be wired?

>It just so happens that virtually all professional composite monitors have
>BNC connectors; it is equally possible that the BNC connector on the
>monitor you are looking at is merely a composite video input...you can
>actually get adapters (on the order of $3 from Radio Shack) to connect
>your RCA video cable to the BNC input.  Trouble is, that's the same signal
>that you *didn't* want to use in the first place.

Right.  I'm hoping the three separate BNC inputs mean separate
red, green, and blue.