[Coco] S-video Prospects...

[Chris Hawks]

---Reply to mail from John Kowalski about [Coco] S-video Prospects...

> Hi Everybody,
> 
> Well, I went and ordered a sample of the AD724 chip and just finished wiring
> the sucker up to the CoCo's RGB video.
> 
> And...  it works.

    Darn! I was going to do that.  Ahhh, I still will.

> I haven't gone as far as comparing the output against my old RGB-to-SVideo
> converter, but so far it looks pretty decent, although probably not quite as
> pristine as from my old converter.
> 80 columns looks fine and is perfectly legible.  If anyone is interested, I
> might try taking some more photos of the video output to give people an idea
> of the quality.

    I would! Also a couple of photos of the board. Your parts list is a
little different from the data sheet. How about a schematic??

---End reply

Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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