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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: how about cga monitors as tv sets?
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Date: 16 May 89 19:42:30 GMT
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In article <22044@srcsip.UUCP> hadden@ella.SRC.Honeywell.COM (George D. Hadden) writes:
<is this possible?
<
<why would anyone want to do this?  well, i used to have a commodore 64
<with a color monitor.  i bought a tv-tuner so that i could use it as a
<tv.  i then gave the computer and monitor to my daughter to use at
<school.  she didn't want the tuner.  now i have a toshiba 1100+ and a
<cga monitor and would like them to play together.  do adapters for
<this exist?

CGA monitors are digital and TV is an analog medium, which makes them
mutually exclusive.  If you want to watch TV with a maximum is 16 colors,
so be it.

The only computer monitor that can be used as a TV monitor is an analog one,
like VGA monitors (EGA is also digital, but 64 colors).  To use a VGA monitor,
the monitor MUST have a composite video input or you MUST have a NTSC to
RGBrgb converter.

In other words, no, you can't use your CGA monitor as a TV monitor.
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