Re: VGA to Monitor GS (Was Re: Apple IIGS on a VGA monitor...the hard way?)

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

> In article nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes...
> >   TVs are relatively very old tech compared to what RGB monitors can
> >do nowadays; hopefully, sooner rather than later, they'll get
> >replaced.  Of course, TV stations, etc will go kicking and
> >screaming...
> 
>     Television technology hasn't really changed for decades. I found 
> it kind of assuming that a set of antique encyclopedia's my family
> has from the early 1950's, contains information on CRT technology 
> that is *still* current today, in 1997. Some things have improved, 
> but the technology overall remains relatively the same. It is about
> time a change occurred. :)

I thought all this was *supposed* to change within a year's time with
HDTV?!  And the TV stations are already preparing for the change which
will cost mucho megabucks worth of new equipment for them.  With new
sets priced at $7,000.00, however, I'll stay behind for QUITE a while
and just add the new decoder box for HDTV to my current, 2-year-old set.

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