Article View: bit.listserv.coco
Article #171Re: The Best Monitor for a CoCo 3 is a TV. (Really!)
From: Rogelio Perea
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:39
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:39
32 lines
2025 bytes
2025 bytes
"Stephen H. Fischer" wrote, among other things: > Now for the non-believers. > > I have taken some digital photos of several CoCo 3 generated screens. > > Taking digital photos off a TV screen has problems that are not visible to > an human eye looking at the screen. > > The raster lines appear to be too prominent. In normal viewing you will > want > to be farther from the TV due to its larger size. > > There is interference that shows up on some of the photos. Again I say > that > a human looking at the screen will not observe this. > > I suggest that you download the Index first Wow... been looking for an alternative to the Tandy CM-8 and the Magnavox CM515 monitors for a long while, anxiously waiting for the scan converter being worked on to be able to use VGA monitors with the CoCo 3, but your solution is something I can start to tinker with almost right away now :-) This proves that the CoCo comunity is composed of quite an inventive group of people! Great article Stephen! -=[ Rogelio ]=-
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<vbFAe.4064$IU1.1534@fe11.lga>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!hw-filter.lga!fe11.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mailReferences:
<1fqAe.2007$dU3.1269@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 110568,1fdc165cec3e2409 X-Google-Attributes: gid110568,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!hw-filter.lga!fe11.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.coco References: <1fqAe.2007$dU3.1269@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> Subject: Re: The Best Monitor for a CoCo 3 is a TV. (Really!) Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: <vbFAe.4064$IU1.1534@fe11.lga> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:39:31 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.85.211.101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net X-Trace: fe11.lga 1121132379 67.85.211.101 (Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:39:39 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:39:39 MST Organization: Optimum Online