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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: questions about Commodore monitors
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 17:34:35 EST
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> From: "ROBERTS, JOHN" <roberts@nbs-vms.ARPA>
> 
> 
> (1) I would be interested in having a monitor connected both to
> an Amiga (RGB) and to the composite video output of a VCR, so I
> could use it both as a computer display and as a high-quality
> television monitor. Is it possible to do this with a standard
> Amiga monitor? Would the Amiga monitor have a noticeably shorter
> lifetime than a typical television set?
>
An nice solution to the above question is the Sony KV1311. It has 
RGB, and composite video inputs. It also provides TV and composite
video out (but no it does not try to convert RGB to composite video
out) It works equally well as a VCR monitor, Amiga Monitor, and 
standalone TV. 

--Chuck
 
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