[Coco] What are you using for your CoCo 1/2 display

[Aaron Wolfe]

I think they are all based around the same Chinese chips, like the cheap
chinese Android TV boxes that are everywhere lately.

The quality of the picture probably has a lot to do with the supporting
electronics, and those probably vary from one vendor to the next.  If
anyone is considering one of these and doesn't want to risk the $20, might
want to try and find some reviews and make sure it does support the mode(s)
you want.

Fwiw, the model I have does let you toggle between NTSC, a few types of
PAL, and some other things I assume are Chinese or something.  It does not
have a language choice that I could find, though I might have just missed
it.  Since I only use it for retro computers, all I've done is fine tune
around the low vhf channels.  Its labeled "TV-BOX HD+" and looks a lot like
the one in that eBay listing except the case is white.  Same layout of
connectors and super cheap remote though.
On Nov 25, 2014 10:28 PM, "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 25, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am not recommending that particular model or seller.  The one I have
> had
> > great results with is quite similar but does have the appropriate
> > connectors.
>
> One of the other things I didn’t like about the one I got from Amazon was
> that since it was a “US model” they had locked out the ability to let it do
> PAL and it was restricted to NTSC. It was clearly some Chinese made device
> that they were selling in many markets and they would only swap firmware.
>
> > All the menus were in Chinese so not sure if it was a “US" version,
> > but setting the frequency and selecting inputs was simple enough.
>
> On the cheap composite/s-video to VGA converter I have, one of the menus
> has a language choice.
>
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