[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 71, Issue 27

[David Grimmel]

I've tried hooking my coco3 to an LCD 17" PC monitor (ViewEra Brand) that also had composite inputs and like you (Nick), didnt care for the upscaling quality. Looks like crap in my opinion, because the native was 1280x1024 and it had to upscale from 640. The composite input looked even worse than the RBG (I'm also using Roy J's converter box) when trying to play games with artifacting. I'm sure it had nothing to do with Roy's box. So I went back to an old used Packard Bell 15" SVGA monitor and cheap Durabrand 13" Color tv for artifacting. It takes up more room but I get the best of both worlds and hands down, the 15" CRT looks worlds better than when I tried to hook it up to a 17" LCD. You can probably find a cheap SVGA monitor at goodwill for $5-15 bucks. Probably a cheap 13" color tv will be there too. I bet a bunch of un-informed people are ditching perfectly good tv's with tuners thinking they cant use them anymore because of the digital conversion. 

 

Dave G

 

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> Message: 15
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:47:15 +1000
> From: Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
> Subject: [Coco] Artifacting on LCD?
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> Clarification from my last post....
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> I should have mentioned that I was referring to a standard PC LCD 
> monitor using the VGA inputs.
> 
> The "TV compatible" LCD's with composite input should produce artifacting.
> 
> If you are using a CoCo3, why would you use anything but the RGB outputs?
> 
> Has anyone compare a composite input LCD, VGA input LCD (using a 
> scandoubler) and a CRT monitor running RGB (Amiga 1084 preferably) 
> running off a CoCo3?
> 
> I suspect they will find that the CRT gives the best overall picture. 
> Anyone got first hand answers?
> 
> Nick