[Coco] Modern display options for CoCo2?

[Jeff Whitehall]

I use the CoCoVGA on my CoCo2, but if you don't want to modify your CoCo,
you may want to consider an RF to VGA converter. I have one for my CoCo 1
('E' motherboard). A quick search of eBay and I found this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NTSC-PAL-RF-Coax-CATV-To-VGA-Video-Audio-Demodulator-TV-Tuner/121516306902?hash=item1c4aefb1d6:g:GYEAAOSwdpxdn7gY
I can't make a recommendation either way on something I've never tested but
it looks like it would work.

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 8:27 PM Steve Strowbridge <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is no stock RCA/Composite out on most of the US CoCo's save for an
> educational model.
> The RF out is an RCA connector that combines audio and video.
> You can get a Coax-F connector to RCA adapter that would screw on the the
> coaxial/cable TV input if your TV and use the standard RCA/RF cable from
> the RF out of your CoCo to the TV tuner in of your TV, even modern ones.
> Switch the CoCo selector to channel 3 or 4 and then change to or tune-in
> that channel on your TV.
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> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 6:59 PM Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > 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?
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