Re: Apple II Digital RGB Card & Sony PVM-14M4U NTSC/PAL Monitor - Works! ... sort of!

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On Jun 10, 12:15 pm, MdntTrain <j...@cimmeri.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 12:46 am, "atfphotogra...@gmail.com"
>
>
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> <atfphotogra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > So I've been fighting away on my IIe to get GEOS to work with an RGB
> > card. It hates the Taxan/Video 7 cards and I haven't been able to try
> > an actual Apple II Digital RGB card because I lacked a monitor.
>
> > I then realized I have film production monitors sitting on my shelf
> > that take every sort of connection you can imagine. This particular
> > monitor is not a new HD model but standard NTSC/PAL 4:3, 16:9, etc. A
> > Sony PVM-14M4U monitor with BNC & svideo ports.
>
> > I found a Apple RGB monitor cable that is the standard Apple RGB
> > connector with four bnc connectors on the other side. When I ran the
> > cable from the Apple Digital RGB card to the monitor and switched it
> > on, whammo! Rock solid image. GEOS works great with the Apple II
> > digital RGB card but not with the Taxan/Video-7 cards.
>
> > On the Apple card it appears as perfect text in double hi-res mode
> > (guessing) while the Taxan makes it look like it's in some sort of low
> > resolution color block mode and you can't ready anything.
>
> > I'm just happy I can use the Apple Digital RGB card now with the Sony
> > PVM-14M4U. Sweet!
>
> > You can find those monitors on ebay but they aren't cheap as they are
> > still in common use for post-production work.
>
> > They are also heavy.
>
> > Best!
>
> > ATF
>
> Would you describe how this works, connecting the digital card
> directly to the analog BNC inputs?   Or how you connected it?   Isn't
> the RGB card putting out R-G-B-I, and the Sony BNCs would be R-G-B-
> Sync?
>
> Thanks,
>  jS

Hello!

ACK! I spoke too soon. I have a perfect image but the colors are off.
Grrrr. So close!

I hooked up the Sony monitor with a 19 pin Apple RGB to four bnc
r,g,b,external sync cable to the Apple Digital RGB card (made by
Video-7 for Apple). When the machine is flipped on the Transwarp logo
comes up looking perfect.

Next the machine pops up the Apple // logo but it's pinkish/red.
However when the software loads (I tried a few titles), I thought the
colors were correct. Turns out I am daft and didn't remember the
proper colors. I tried some old titles like the Newsroom, which I
thought looked fine until I hooked up the composite and they were
wrong.

I took some shots of the cards and the problems with GEOS and the
Taxan/Video-7 cards;

http://www.atfphotography.com/apple_rgb/index.html

Well.. damn!

Sugggestions?

Fun with video.. bleagh!

ATF