bob@agora.UUCP (Robert Lucas) (07/22/89)
Has anyone had experience in using large screen (27") televisions with direct video inputs as display devices for PC's? I am working on a project that requires 40 char/line output on ganged monitors. I purchased a Cyber Research 320X200 video output card and tried it on a 27' Sylvania monitor, but the characters seem to have poor color convergence and a fuzzy/streaky appearance. Are there any fairly low cost driver cards out there that will produce reasonable output on a TV/monitor, or are the monitors simply too brain-dead to reproduce the image...... Thanks in advance for any help..... Bob ============================================================================= | bob@agora | Knowledge is the key, but | | ...tektronix!tessi!agora!bob | you must first find the lock. | =============================================================================
emmonsl@csusac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons) (07/23/89)
In article <1547@agora.UUCP>, bob@agora.UUCP (Robert Lucas) writes: > Has anyone had experience in using large screen (27") televisions > with direct video inputs as display devices for PC's? Yes..we often convert CGA, EGA, and VGA output to NTSC for display on projection TVs and other NTSC devices. > I am working on a project that requires 40 char/line output on > ganged monitors. I purchased a Cyber Research 320X200 video output > card and tried it on a 27' Sylvania monitor, but the characters seem > to have poor color convergence and a fuzzy/streaky appearance. As we aren't using converter cards, but scan converter frames, I can only speculate that the problem is with your scan converter card, and not the monitor (they cannot be brain dead...as they have no brain to qualify themselves as such). Did you: 1> Make sure that bridged video loops through the monitor are terminated with a 75ohm terminator? 2> Make sure that the scan card is compatable with the graphics card output format? (i.e. a CGA scan converter won't work with an EGA or VGA card, except in CGA mode, because the scanning frequency is _much_ different). This doesn't generally account for the type of problem you have encountered, but it has been known to happen. Hope it helps in some way... lse "No sig's enough sig for me"