[Coco] Modern display options for CoCo2?

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Sat Nov 9 19:17:42 EST 2019


On Saturday 09 November 2019 18:59:32 Rich Carreiro wrote:

> > On Nov 9, 2019, at 18:30, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> >> On Saturday 09 November 2019 17:21:41 Rich Carreiro wrote:
> >>
> >> I was wondering what the options are for connecting a CoCo2 to a
> >> modern TV or monitor. At least in the US, haven’t TVs dropped
> >> analog tuners, making it impossible to (directly) input the channel
> >> 3/channel 4 signal that comes out of a CoCo2?
> >
> > Most modern tv's expect to see a dvd player plugged into one of the
> > rca style connectors even if they are the latest whizbang digital
> > tv's.
>
> I’m not following you. Those RCA connectors on the TV are expecting
> composite video, not video modulated onto old analog VHF channel
> 3 or 4, which is what the CoCo2 puts out, right?
>
In that case, select the off air r59 connector to feed the coco to it.
>> Rich Carreiro


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