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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: how about cga monitors as tv sets?
Message-ID: <1920@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 19:29:46 GMT
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In article <1915@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<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.

It has come to my attention that there are some CGA monitors with composite
video input and well as the DB-9 TTL input.  OK, so I have never seen one.
So, a clarification is needed, since the poster didn't say if it had a
composite video input or not.  I suspect not, since the poster would have
seen the connecter and tried the tuner with it.

If your CGA monitor only has the DB-9 connector, it is a digital monitor
only and cannot be used with analog video information.  If the CGA monitor
has the DB-9 and RCA composite video connectors, hook up the tuner to the
RCA connector and set a switch someplace for that input and you will be in
business.

Sorry about the confusion, but I really do suspect that because the original
poster only saw a DB-9 connector, the question got asked of the net.
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