cjl@tucc.UUCP (06/06/83)
I am in the market for a color monitor (composite NTSC) for my
Apple II, but to keep harmony with the Mrs. I would like to
find an affordable unit that also functions as a TV. What
sets (13-19") are any of you familiar with and which ones do
you reccomend? Please mail your responses and I will recap.
Thanks in Advance,
Charles J. Lord
Cary, NC
(...!decvax!duke!unc!tucc!cjl)newman@utcsrgv.UUCP (Ken Newman) (06/08/83)
While we're on the subject of monitors, I would like to know if anyone has heard of a good quality tv tuner add-on for a NTSC composite colour monitor, i.e. that would do the reverse thing - let you use your high-res monitor as a tv (instead of your tv as a low-res monitor!). I seem to recall Pioneer made such a unit. Ken Newman decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!newman
ron%brl-bmd@sri-unix.UUCP (06/10/83)
From: Ron Natalie <ron@brl-bmd> If you mean by hi-res what Apple programmers call hires (which merely means you bypass the RF section and go straight to a standard TV video section) any number of people provide such a beast (Sony, Pioneer, RCA...) as part of the latest Component Video craze. Another good idea would be to go out and by a VTR. Setting the thing up to record from it's tuner (although the tape may be pause) usually yields the tuner video out the back. Our Hi-res is 1024 line RGB graphics. In addtion...has anyone out there made use of the RGB inputs on the Sony Profeel yet? Anyone open it up and remove the damn Schmidt trigger gates on the inputs and try analog? -Ron
HASTINGS%cmu-cs-c@sri-unix.UUCP (06/11/83)
From: Gene Hastings <HASTINGS@cmu-cs-c> The devive you want is called a "Monitor/Receiver". A few manufacturers sell such (Sony, Panasonic, RCA) usually as part of an industrial or educational product line. There are other firms that specialize in taking a consumer TV receiver and modifying it to have video and audio in and out (also providing isolation in the case of receivers [like Sony] that do not use a transformer in their power supply). A couple such firms are Videotek and Amtron. The modification adds roughly $200 to the price. An alternate idea is "component TV", the most familiar version of which is the Sony Profeel, which has separately packaged CRT and tuner, and the tuner usually has provision for choosing between several video and RF sources. Others in the market include Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Zenith, and NEC. As of the previous generation of receivers, the Sonys had the best reproduction (sharpness, Color rendition and saturation) and were the most often chosen for modification. I haven't seen enough of the latest to see if Sony has been surpassed for overall performance. Gene Hastings <HASTINGS@CMU-CS-C>, <HASTINGS@CMU-RI-LEG>, ..!research!cmu-vlsi!hastings -------