Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!LENOIL@MIT-XX.ARPA From: LENOIL@MIT-XX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: c64 monitor Message-ID: <14570@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 13:02:43 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.14570 Posted: Tue Dec 13 13:02:43 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Dec-83 03:31:08 EST Lines: 20 From: Robert S. Lenoil The Commodore monitor will give you much better picture quality than a standard television. Also, current 64's have an 8-pin video connector, providing seperate chrominence and luminence information. Standard monitors can't take advantage of this, but the Commodore monitors have a special 3-plug connector in the back, explicitly for connecting to a 64. Unfortunately, last I've heard, Commodore isn't shipping the 3-plug cables with the monitors, because people with older 64's wouldn't be able to hook them up (mass stupidity, I know). When I last spoke to them, they said that eventually they would ship 3-plug cables with new monitors. The jist of all this is that if you get a Commodore monitor and a 3-plug video cable (assuming your 64 has an 8-pin connector), you will get VASTLY superior video than anything possible with a color TV, or even another monitor. Robert Lenoil (LENOIL@MIT-XX.ARPA) -------