Re: (random) I wonder if this would look good atop a //c?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Osgeld wrote:
> On Jan 19, 6:05 pm, Steve Nickolas
> <lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, winston19842...@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 19, 5:14 pm, Steve Nickolas
> > > <lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://usotsuki.info/lcdiie2.jpg
> >
> > > > friend sent me a cheap little portable LCD TV with composite in.  I used
> > > > it a bit with the //e but it would work better with a smaller computer, I
> > > > think. xD
> >
> > > > http://usotsuki.info/lcdiie1.jpg<-- you can see part of the //e case
> > > > here.  I didn't set it up all the way as I just wanted to see how well it
> > > > would handle the signal (though it's possible the DVD recorder is timebase
> > > > correcting it?)
> >
> > > > -uso.
> >
> > > Wow, it has rabbit ears!
> > > I have a Coby 10 inch LCD connected to my TI-99, it works great!
> > > I use one of those multimedia modulators to connect a dvd player and
> > > video cassette player too.
> >
> > Yeah... I mainly use that set for monitoring settop caps, play a little
> > SNES on it because it has an NTSC tuner (only thing I have with one), but
> > I do occasionally watch TV on it so I upped the antenna from the pole that
> > came with it to one of the rabbit ears I had, and I get Fox, CW and the
> > country music videos channel pretty well on it. xD
> >
> > But I figured being a digital TV it would have a hell of a time with the
> > Apple's "NTSC"... was surprised it didn't.
> >
> > -uso.
>
>
> DTV is still NTSC, its just transmitted differently

Well, no.

DTV is digital transmission of any of a variety of formats, one
of which is "like" NTSC, but is a rectangular array of pixels.

NTSC is strictly reserved for analog signals using the sync, blanking,
and video standards defined by the NTSC many years ago.

And as Steve noted, the Apple II video signal has several deviations
from NTSC timing, all of which were essentially irrelevant in the
age of analog decoding, but might trip up a digitally implemented
analog signal decoder in a modern receiver/monitor.

-michael

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