[Coco] Current Status of the "Help Send A Fellow CoCoNut To This Year's CoCoFEST" Campaign

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Sat Feb 14 19:53:58 EST 2015


On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:46 PM, embsys dev <embsysdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah yes, RGB input, sorry. I know, NTSC = Never Twice the Same Color, heh.
> But since the coco3 max resolution is 640x192x4, and 320x192x16 is as good
> "full color" as you can get, I don't see any benefit to using RGB through a
> fancy FPGA scan doubler, no matter how good it is, the source signal is the
> limiting factor.
>

You wouldn't say the source resolution was the limiting factor if you had
ever directly compared the CoCo 3's RGB output to its composite.  I had
a Sony KV1311CR that could switch between the two with the push of a
button, and there was no comparison.  Hugely sharper with the RGB.

Art


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