[Coco] Bad news, good news...

[Robert Gault]

Boisy Pitre wrote:

> 

> On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:01 PM, John Kowalski wrote:

> 

>> Hi everyone,

>>

>> If anyone wants to look at a comparison between the regular  composite 

>> video,

>> S-video and RGB; I took some photos and put them online:

>>

>> http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/graphics/svideo.jpg

>>

>> There are four samples of the same 80 column display running on the  same

>> monitor, but using different video sources:

>>

>> top/left - U.S. CoCo3 composite video

>> top/right - European CoCo3 composite video

>> bottom/left - S-Video (generated from the RGB video)

>> bottom/right - CoCo3 RGB video

>>

>> The S-Video looks very nice.  Not quite as perfect as RGB, but  much, 

>> *MUCH*

>> better than the U.S. CoCo3's regular composite video.

> 

> 

> No joke!  How did you do the S-Video conversion?

> 

> I still think S-Video would be a cool video option for the CoCo 3.   The 

> pictures show that it is quite nice!

> 

>>                                          John Kowalski (Sock Master)

>>                                          http://www.axess.com/ 

>> twilight/sock/

>>

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And what monitor usable with a Coco has composite, S-video, and RGB inputs?

What happens if you run an artifact program through S-video? Is it just 
like RGB in that you just see black and white?