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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: VGA presentation on a TV
Message-ID: <14504.272d707c@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 19:22:20 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
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Hello,
Does anyone know if there is a TV that can be hooked up to a VGA output?
Or is there some type of converter-device that will convert a VGA signal
so that one can use a regular TV as its output?
What we are trying to achive is to display a VGA (or EGA) screen on a TV.
I know that by doing this (if possible in the first place) one would
loose some resolution, but that is not important since we are not trying
to use it for wordprocessing. Instead we need to give a computer
presentation to a room-size audience, and we would like to display
the computer-generated outputs large enough so that everyone in the
room can see it. A 14" VGA monitor is just too small. So we are
trying to use a larger display-device in the range of 30", and the only
thing that comes near that size is a TV screen (we were unsuccessful in
finding a VGA monitor of that size).
 
We already try to use those devices that one can put on top of a
over-head-projector and display the computer output on a wall screen.
But we find them to be too fuzzy and not sharp enough; the room had
to be darken quite a bit before a good enough display could be achived.
 
So at the moment we are stuck in doing it by slides and/or lengthy handouts.
Or use a Commodore 64 (an 8-bit computer designed to be used with a TV);
but we need a software that will allow us to draw graphs and charts
and fancy text-scrolls, and present them in a slide-show manner. Is there
such software for the C64?
 
 
Any help will be appreciated.
 
Sincerely,
Scott K. Stephen