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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Uses of a 1080 monitor
Message-ID: <7100.AA7100@heimat>
Date: 22 Feb 89 23:31:42 GMT
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[ Do you feed the boogie man? Then why do you feed the line eater? ]

In Message <1992@pur-phy>, murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes:

>Last night, I was trying to hook up a VCR to my 1080 monitor.  Being ignorant
>of possible problems, (I want to use the VCR to watch television and movies)
>I disconnected all computer related paraphenalia from the monitor.  Changing
>the mode to video composite and hooking up the cables from the VCR to 1080,
>Viola I can watch TV again.  

  Boy thats alot of work, I hope the show was worth it ;-)

>   My questions are these, when I have the computer hooked up and running,
>can I change the mode to composite video and watch the tube if I'm waiting
>for something to happen on the Amiga?  Do I need to have the cable from the
>Amiga disconnected to safely watch my favorite movie rental?  What is the 
>easiest (read least expensive) way to record composite color video out 
>from the Amiga if I'm running a simulation or something?  

  Just stick the ol video from that VCR in the "video in" port! No need to
  disconnect anything. I have heimat connected via the 9-pin port and BERKS
  AMIGA BBS connected via the "video in" port. That way I can just flip a
  switch and see whats going on where. plus if there is that really good
  show on tv (like Dr Who -or- the Yankees ;-), I have a genlock installed
  in heimat so I can watch tv while I work. Or is that through my work....

  Ive been using a genlock to watch tv & work since the beta models for the
  1000 were available. Only thing I miss with the 2000 genlock is the ability
  to merge audio. So like me you may need a switchbox or second amp. for the
  audio from that vcr.

  Sneakers

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Dan "Sneakers" Schein          {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
Sneakers Computing
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