[Coco] S-video Prospects...

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 20:46, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 06:59 PM 1/26/2006, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>This is the first I have heard about "A missing HSYNC", I never have
>> seen it.
>>
>>As others clearly know about it, I must be lucky.
>>
>>I wonder if my TV (and other top of the line sets) keep a oscillator
>> running and then phase lock it or similar when the source HSYNC
>> arrives.
>>
>>Gene, perhaps you can educate me on this.
>>
>>Stephen H. Fischer
>
>No, there's no missing HSYNC on the CoCo 3.  What was being said is
> that a device that attempts to correct the CoCo 3's bad HSYNC timing
> of the GIME chip would have to use a scheme that introduces a delay
> in the HSYNC so that the whole screen will be moved over to the right
> a tad.  As it is, some TVs chop off the leftmost text column, usually
> 1 or 2 characters.
>
Humm, IIRC seeing a coco3 in the store that did that, and you could fix 
it by cycling the power switch a few times.  But I never had one of 
mine do that.

>--
>Roger Taylor

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