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- LC III, Cent 660AV, Quad 840AV: No Sync on Green Supt (8/93)
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- Article Created: 26 August 1993
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- TOPIC -----------------------------------------------------------
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- Why was is there no Sync on Green capability in the Macintosh LC III,
- Centris 660AV, and Quadra 840AV?
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- DISCUSSION ------------------------------------------------------
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- "Sync on green" refers to the practice of sending the video synchronization
- signal along with the green color signal. Previously released Macintosh
- models with built-in video have supported sync on green.
-
- Sync on green was not included in the Macintosh LC III, Centris 660AV, and
- Quadra 840AV for the following reasons:
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- 1) Many users have had problems with sync on green when hooking up third-
- party monitors - mainly multi-frequency displays from the PC world.
- Since these displays are increasingly being used with Macintosh, the
- lack of sync on green increasing the number and compatibility of
- displays available.
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- 2) The current popular video standards: VGA and VESA, dictate using
- separate sync signals, not sync on the green video.
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- 3) No currently available Apple monitors support sync on green.
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- 4) The new monitors with power-saving modes (monitors which can be
- put to sleep, this consuming less energy) typically use the separate
- sync lines to signal the monitor to enter a low power state. Since
- separate sync lines run to the monitor anyway, sync on green does not
- make sense.
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- 5) The ability to strip sync off the green video adds cost and complexity
- to a monitor.
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- Problems and Solutions:
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- 1) The monitor will not work without sync on green. Unfortunately, there
- is very little you can do about this problem. This seems to affect only
- one or two major Macintosh display manufacturers, and affects only some of
- their displays.
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- 2) The monitor cable or cable adapter doesn't pass the separate sync lines
- to the monitor. This is easily fixed by replacing/altering the cable or
- adapter.
-
- PLEASE NOTE: One of the main reasons cables and adapters don't pass
- through the separate sync lines is because sync on green is there in the
- first place. Since the sync signal on green video cause some monitors to
- display a greenish tint when they see (and therefore use) the separate
- sync signals, simply not passing the separate sync signals to the monitor
- cures the problem. This workaround will fix the problem on a majority of
- the monitors available.
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- Copyright 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
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