Apple IIc --- output options

[fxg@imib.RWTH-Aachen.De (Felix H. Gatzemeier)]

I recently bought a IIc for cheap money and am now trying to get it to work
with a TV set, with little success. Since there was no paper about it, I can
hardly make out what all those icons are trying to tell me, so I'm somewhat
lost. I haven't made my way through all that's in ground.isca.uiowa.edu, but
I'm posting this anyhow, hoping that some kind soul will nudge me in the right
direction.

If I plug in the usual antenna cable to the Cinch plug in the case, I get no
signal at all. That's not that tragic, it expect it to deliver some US-type
video signal (what's it called? PAL? Or was that the european one?), and I'm
using it in Germany.

So I use that converter/adaptor box that gets attached to the video port,
covers that cinch thing and offers two new ones --- both labeled with monitor
(?) icons, one with overlapping circles (would that mean color?). With the
circled plug, I get no signal at all, with the other one just a very poor
image: shifted up, wavey, blurred horizontally, stripes on the background. Just
enough so that I'm able to make out that the ting is apparently working,
because different disks result in different images.

So, what I'm wondering here is: Is this a sign of a hardware defect? Is there
some kind of trickery in attaching a IIc to a `modern' (i.e. no dials to turn)
TV set? I have an old Orion Monitor dusting away in the corner that might
accept TTL or RGB signals (now that's some description) --- how picky is a IIc
with general monitors?

Thanks

-- 
Felix

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