Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!cord!nsw
From: nsw@cord.UUCP (N Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Monitors
Message-ID: <535@cord.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 17:40:10 GMT
References: <4009@husc6.harvard.edu> <10356@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (59455-N Weinstock)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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In article <10356@ut-sally.UUCP> bryan@mothra.cs.utexas.edu writes:
>In article <4009@husc6.harvard.edu> may@husc7.UUCP (may) writes:
>=-
>=-I need a new monitor for my Amiga.  I've heard a couple of comments
>=-recently, concerning the Sony (SPD-1302?) and a couple of the other 
>=-monitors that were mentioned in the Byte article.  One thing I'd
>=-like to have in a monitor is that it could double as a color TV.
>=-Does the Sony or any of the others do this?
>=-
>	Any monitor that has a composite video input can be used as a TV, as
>long as you have a composite video source.  Most VCRs provide a composite
>output.  Note that this is not the same as a normal RF (regular TV antenna or
>cable TV) signal.  Maybe there are such things as RF->composite converters(?)
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wouldn't such a device simply be a TV tuner?  DAK used to advertise a tuner
box which was expressly intended to allow you to use your composite monitor
as a TV.  But now, in the days of component TV, wouldn't it be possible to buy
a component tuner (no idea how much these cost) and plug it into your monitor?
I haven't looked into this, but it seems feasible.  Anyone know what kind of 
output component tuners produce?  Whatever it is, it must be compatible with
at least *one* of the multitude of input options on the new "multifrequency"
(thanks, Bryan) monitors.

Comments, anyone?

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