Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isc-br!jimc
From: jimc@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: RGB monitor stuff
Message-ID: <2880@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM>
Date: 2 Jul 90 20:26:27 GMT
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In article <17660080@hpfcdj.HP.COM> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
>...the video, as most commercially-available monitors expect RS-343 levels -
>which give 1V p-p on green and about 0.7V p-p on red and blue.

To clarify, the 1V on green is because RS-343 specifies sync on green.
The green _video_ signal is (more or less) the same amplitude as red or
blue, namely 0.7V p-p, the sync level is about 0.3V negative w.r.t. black.
If the monitor has separate sync, then green should only need 0.7V p-p.