[Coco] CoCo to SVGA converter?

[Roger Taylor]

At 05:37 PM 10/27/2004, you wrote:


>On Oct 27, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:

>

>>Has anyone created a converter for the CoCo for connecting SVGA and flat 

>>panel monitors?

>>

>>Mark, if you're reading this.. I really think a universal CoCo video 

>>converter would be the ultimate CoCo upgrade.  A device that could 

>>convert the RF Out, Video Out, or RGB Out into the SVGA format would be 

>>one of the best things a CoCo could ever have.

>

>There are plenty of relatively inexpensive ($50 or so) solutions for 

>composite NTSC2 to VGA out there, though really you aren't going to get a 

>better picture than you will from the composite input of a good TV that 

>way.  The information for the really nice picture simply isn't present in 

>such a signal and the RF signal is even worse.  As for the RGB out 

>solutions for this too exist, but they are generally much more expensive 

>($150-$200).


Sounds reasonable considering that the old CoCo monitors are gonna crap out 
one day soon.  I am willing to live with the same fuzzy video that we've 
always had, if that's the only way to convert to SVGA.  I think the RGB 
port could be upconverted, though?


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Roger Taylor