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From: agollum@engr.uky.edu (David Herron aka Admiral Gollum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Tuner for Monitor
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Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 15:05:03 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 15:05:03 1987
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In article <464@rover.UUCP> mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth) writes:
>>In article <3561@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, rre@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Velveteen Rabbit Corps) writes:
>> [He's looking for a tuner for his monitor]
>> 
>There has been a lot of netnoise concerning "tuners" that can be connected to
>the Amiga monitors.  Most of the recommendations that I have seen relate to
>RF to RF types of boxes.  These will not work with the Amiga RGB/Composite
>Monitor (1080?), as there is no way that these cheap little cable boxes produce
>a composite video (or, drool, RGB) output.  The output from the VCR is a
>composite video output, no RF involved.  There are RF to composite boxes 
>available, but one needs to be careful about getting the right thing.  These
>tend to be known as component TV, and are generally not as inexpensive as the
>cable converters.
>
>Mark Huth - I speak for myself

Don't listen to this man.

These doohickeys being discussed *do* put out composite video (I believe
I've seen ads for RGB versions as well)--what good would a tv tuner
be if it emitted an RF signal?  You'd need a tv to watch it!

I saw the one Service Merchandise carries (and which someone else already
mentioned)--they had it hooked to a Commodore 1902 monitor--don't remember
if it was composite or RGB.

Mr. Huth may simply be mistaken in his terminology, but *every* VCR I hav
seen emits both RF and composite video--RF through the VHF antenna-out
jacks (the way you'd attach it to a TV set), and composite through the
RCA jacks (the way you'd atttach it to a monitor or another TV).

You don't have to buy an explicitly-marketed "component TV" tuner, though
they'll work too.

Kenneth Herron