[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?