Re: Component Video (Re: Monitors)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Supertimer wrote:

>"Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=53&products_id=639&PHPSESSID=9d064
>>fbf4cc8ebc0ce641bdbf4d4cad8
>>
>>$70 is still a lot considering that Radio Shack used to sell an RF modulator
>>for $20 that will do the same thing, it just requires a +12 VDC source.
>>Similarly, a person could just route the composite signal to the video input
>>port of a VCR.
>>
>>I'm interested in trying to preserve the "crispness" of an RGB setup, and I
>>find that a good LCD monitor doesn't produce nearly as much eye strain after
>>many hours of use as a traditional monitors.
>
>You are right.  To use IIGS software, you need RGB.
>The composite video output is too fuzzy to read.
>
>Even S-Video is not quite up to the task.  There was
>a device called the Video Turtle that converted the
>RGB output to S-Video.  IIGS software was actually
>usable on a TV with S-Video with this device but it
>still lacked crispness of RGB.
>
>Now that the future is obviously HDTV and pretty
>much all televisions in the next few years will have
>component video input, it seems obvious that a
>IIGS RGB to component video converter is the
>answer because component video is still 15kHz
>but has the sharpness of the IIGS RGB.

I agree.  And it should be doable with a simple analog
matrixing/buffering circuit.

-michael

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