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- From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
- Subject: Re: NTSC sync rate questions
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <fXQx2bD@quack.sac.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:55:35 GMT
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- In article <fXQx2bD@quack.sac.ca.us> mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) writes:
- >I have an NEC 5FG. It is a multisync RGB monitor. I also have the CPU
- >boards for an arcade video game. It has NTSC timed analog RGB output.
- >I want to know if the two will be compatable. I suspect they will, but
- >I am confused:
- >
- >It's my understanding that the vertical retrace rate of NTSC is 60 Hz,
- >and that it is interlaced, yielding 30 pictures per second. But the
- >monitor says 55-90 Hz vertical sync rate. That sounds compatable
- >to me.
-
- Yes that's fine.
-
- >It's my understanding that the horizontal retrace rate of NTSC is
- >14 kHz.
-
- It's 15.734 KHz.
-
- >The monitor says that its acceptable range is 27-79 kHz.
- >Now 14 x 2 is 28, but am I reading too much into that coincidence?
-
- Yup. It's not going to work. There is something to the coincidence though:
- 640x480 VGA is what NTSC would be like if it didn't have interlace. I.E.,
- same verticle rate, double horizontal rate.
-
- Now if you had an analog CGA compatible monitor, you could do it.
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