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Re: IIgs RGB to YPbPr Component experiment



BLuRry wrote:
\> I'm planning two VGA upconverter tests: one using the Aussie's
Highway

SCART RGB->VGA converter (more sophisticated than the earlier #41 board
I first reported about elsewhere here); and another using the Averlogic
chipsets.


I'm a total luddite when it comes to TTL and analog circuitry, but
would anything here be of any use?

http://www.analog.com/en/content/0,2886,761%255F798%255F26308,00.html

Close, but no cigar.  ;-(

Their analog chips (AD722, etc) actually have what is needed inside,
but they don't output component, but instead modulate it onto a
chroma subcarrier for S-Video (or composite) out.

I guess that just the buffers and matrix are too simple to merit a
chip in AD's eyes.  (Or, more likely, the market was too small.)

Still, it's a shame that they didn't provide a way to simply bypass
the modulator and use the three output drivers for component.  ;-)

-michael

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