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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wmu-coyote!22black
- From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
- Subject: Re: does this device exist?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.193743.7172@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
- References: <BxAwIG.1KL@fc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:37:43 GMT
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- koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
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- >Up until 2 weeks ago, I had been using the old (1084??) monitor that had
- >come with my 1000 in 1985. Then I upgraded to a 1960 monitor, which,
- >needless to say, looks _vastly_ better. (I think it is a 0.28 dot
- >pitch monitor. Don't know what the old one was).
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- >So I'm much much happier with this new monitor, but there is just one
- >feature of my old monitor that I miss. The old C= monitor had both RGB
- >and composite video inputs. The new one lacks composite video inputs.
- >I liked the video input because then I could use the same monitor as a
- >TV set by attaching it to my VCR.
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- >Does anyone know of a source for a device which will accept composite
- >video and put out analog RGB? I know there are expensive graphics cards
- >from GVP that do video in a window, but I want something very cheap.
- >Hopefully < $100. I also want to buy one, not build one. I have plans
- >for such a thing, but A) it depends on a Motorola part which doesn't
- >seem to be available any more, B) it depends on being able to make or
- >obtain a custom PCB for it, and C) it would take me longer to make and
- >debug than I want to spend. So I'd like to buy one. Does such a thing
- >exist, and can I get one for between $50 and $100? If so, from where?
-
- Well Any genlock should work. Just bring up a black screen on your amiga,
- and you will be able just amiga m to it. Of course they are like $200.
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- Martin
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