[Coco] Bad news, good news...

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

The CoCo 3 S-Video pictures I took are still on ftp--maltedmedia.com.

ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/CC3/Monitors/Svideo/P0001803.jpg

Is the 80 Column "White on Blue" Program Listing Sample.

My Digital camera showed the white letters too bright compared to what my
human eye observed.

Except for the TV screen being much larger than a monitor so you have to
step back, the 80 column display is just fine.

I would rate the CoCo 3 S-Video on my TV "better" for gaming than
program development due to its larger size.

I think that the analog AD72x chip does a better job than John's home brewed
method.:D

Stephen H. Fischer


> I agree; if the quality was good enough for WIDTH80, it'd be good enough
> for me; and an S-Video converter could possibly bring a higher number of
> quality "monitors" (like my 27" Sony Wega) to the table than a VGA
> upconverter.
>
> 27" worth of Rogue... Mmmmm... "What To-Do list, honey? I've not seen
> one... Honest!!!" ;^>
>
> Laterz,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger

John Kowalski wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If anyone wants to look at a comparison between the regular composite
> video, S-video and RGB; I took some photos and put them online:
>
> http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/graphics/svideo.jpg
>
> There are four samples of the same 80 column display running on the same
> monitor, but using different video sources:
>
> top/left - U.S. CoCo3 composite video
> top/right - European CoCo3 composite video
> bottom/left - S-Video (generated from the RGB video)
> bottom/right - CoCo3 RGB video
>
> The S-Video looks very nice.  Not quite as perfect as RGB, but much,
> *MUCH* better than the U.S. CoCo3's regular composite video.
>
>                                         John Kowalski (Sock Master)
>
> http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/