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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64 Ghosting
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:15:32 GMT
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- tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy) wrote:
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- >Benjamin Kenobi (fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
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- >: I read some time ago about the CyberVision 64 "ghosting" that occurs when you
- >: have say a white background and a single vertical black line. I have seen
- >: this effect on my card also. What happens is there is a "ghost" line faintly
- >: visible to the right of the black line. Most of the time I don't even notice
- >: this, but lately when using ShapeShifter it has bugged me some. Someone said
- >: that this was caused by some kind of "under-damping" of the signal, and this
- >: makes sense. There is an abrupt change (from black to white) and then a damped
- >: oscillation which causes the ghosting. I am wondering if there is a circuit
- >: that I can buy/build which I can put between my graphics card and monitor which
- >: will eliminate the ghosting. Maybe some kind of filter or something.
-
- >: Anyone know?
-
- >I've been working on a solution to this. Right now, I'm thinking the
- >best solution would be to connect three large resistors, one between
- >each color signal and ground. This would slow down the transitions.
- >The hard part is picking the right resistance. Slowing it down too
- >much will make it over damped (same problem, but with a different
- >color ghost). You also have to make sure you don't change the
- >magnitude of the final signal (or you won't ever get "white" again --
- >just light gray).
-
- >I'll post a solution as soon as I come up with one. (Not that I want
- >to discourage anyone else from trying also :) The more people
- >working on it, the better!)
-
- >Tom Kennedy
-
- Have you tried the pull up resistors on the Video Input. There are
- jumpers to set this near the Input connector.
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