duerksen@bsu-cs.UUCP (Joel L. Duerksen) (04/02/89)
Does anyone know of a small, and hopefully inexpensive piece of hardware
for converting NTSC video to Analog RGB? What I am hoping to do is
to utilize this expensive Apple RGB monitor for more than just my computer
graphics. With the right converter I should be able to use it as a TV
when hooked to the NTSC output on a VCR. Could someone please send me the
address of a company which makes a converter of this sort. Thanks in advance.
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Joel Duerksen UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!duerksenmyers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) (04/05/89)
>Does anyone know of a small, and hopefully inexpensive piece of hardware >for converting NTSC video to Analog RGB? What I am hoping to do is >to utilize this expensive Apple RGB monitor for more than just my computer >graphics. With the right converter I should be able to use it as a TV >when hooked to the NTSC output on a VCR. Could someone please send me the >address of a company which makes a converter of this sort. Thanks in advance. There are several ICs intended for the consumer electronics industry which do exactly this; the Motorola TDA3330 in their Linear and Interface Databook comes to mind as one example. However, you must realize that "NTSC" video also implies a certain timing - that used by standard television, which is basically 60 Hz interlaced vertical, 15.734 kHz horizontal. If your RGB monitor cannot accept this timing, and I suspect that it will not, then simply converting the NTSC video to RGB signals won't buy you anything. Bob Myers KC0EW HP Graphics Tech. Div.| Opinions expressed here are not Ft. Collins, Colorado | those of my employer or any other {the known universe}!hplabs!hpfcla!myers | sentient life-form on this planet.