Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!onfcanim!dave
From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: A golden opportunity
Message-ID: <16094@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 04:17:10 GMT
References: <1411@maccs.McMaster.CA> <2011@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Distribution: can
Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal
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In article <2011@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
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>There already exists a quite extensible standard for video, namely
>auto-sync RGB.  The core of any HDTV system should be an auto-sync RGB
>monitor (capable of the resolutions and scan rates we're talking here, as
>a minimum) such as are now sold (for around $1000) for computers.

There is a problem here though - HDTV doesn't use the 1.33 aspect ratio
of NTSC, and of virtually all currently-available RGB monitors.  It's
1.66, or 1.78, or something like that (the Japanese standard, at least,
changed sometime in mid-stream).

Also, do any of the $1000 monitors in existence do 60-70 KHz horizontal
sweep?  I doubt it.  The cheap multisync monitors are designed for PCs
and run at 30 KHz or so, but I want 70 KHz for a real graphics workstation
(1280 x 1024 non-interlaced).  This could handle HDTV non-interlaced too.

I do agree that RGB should be the tuner-VCR-monitor interconnection
standard though.  Also get rid of those awful RCA phono plugs and
F-connectors for video cables, and spend a few dollars on real BNC or
TNC connectors.  Who in their right mind would design a connector for
shielded cable where the signal conductor connects before the ground?