[Coco] Re: CoCo to SVGA converter?

[Roger Taylor]

Does it accept RF 3/4 in?  This will allow a CoCo 1 or 2 to use it, 
too.  The unit looks just right in size.  The price is steep, though.  $179 
is what I see on their site.  Ouch.






At 07:27 AM 10/28/2004, you wrote:
>Hey Roger.
>
>If you can afford it, the device you want is the XRGB-2 Plus. It is
>expensive ($200) but I feel worth the money.
>If this device was just "OK" at its current cost I would say so. The XRGB-2
>Plus is probably the BEST way to display CoCo.
>
>Roy Justus came up with a design to combine the syncs from the CoCo to
>something the XRGB-2 likes. The quality of his work is excellent.
>
>You can see the device putting CoCo on a NEC XV15 monitor at my web page:
>http://www.geocities.com/chazbeenhad/coco
>
>I just replace my monitor with a 19" Princeton. It absolutely blows me away.
>CoCo never looked so good. Check it out here:
>http://69.3.33.239:8081/files/coco3w19.jpg
>
>I have found in all my playing / testing with the XRGB-2 Plus that the 87
>gime and 86 gime chips display differently. It is my feeling that this will
>be seen with any upscan device used with cocos to a vga monitor. I don't
>want to go into detail in this message, but lets just say the 86 gime
>displays a better picture.
>
>I'd be happy to answer any questions on the device. I can take pictures or
>whatever anyone wants. I know its on the expensive side, so if people want
>to know anything specific, I would be happy to help.
>
>Charlie
>
>"Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote in
>message news:6.1.1.1.0.20041027160506.01eac4f0 at pop.bayou.com...
> > 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.
> >
> > We've got everything we thought could never be done, but nothing to
> > preserve our video.  That is, if your CM-8 or other RGB monitor fails and
> > you have trouble finding something else compatible, you're CoCo system is
> > basically rendered useless.  Besides, most CoCo users have never really
> > seen a crisp clean video signal.
> >
> > I set my flat panel monitor on top of my original gray CoCo 1 just to see
> > how it looks, and it looks GREAT.  Talk about retrofitting!  I quickly
> > imagined what it would be like to have some of my custom programs built
> > into ROM Paks, and the system would only consist of the CoCo, the flat
> > panel, and the ROM Pak.  *VERY* compact, and very appealing.
> >
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