[Coco] Using my Coco on VGA monitor alternative?

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

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From: Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk>
> wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
> > Should work no problem. Plan to try it soon with the Hauppauge PVR-150 
> > I bought last Friday, once I've got the bugs worked out on dumping a 
> > few thousand hours of videotape to disk on one of my Linux boxen. The 
> > Coco 1/2/3s I've plugged into the televisions through VCRs for years, 
> > but this tuner card does have a composite jack.
> >
> If it's anything like the Hauppauge PVR-250 (I think that's the one I 
> have, it has onboard mpeg2 encoding), then that won't be suitable
> because there is a noticable delay between the input at the card and the 
> output on the screen. This delay doesn't matter when watching TV on the 
> card, but matters when typing, because the characters appear on the 
> screen lagging behind when you hit the keys, it's like the old days on a 
> slow modem connection :( This would of course make playing games on such 
> a setup almost impossible.

When just watching, seems to be no delay.  Delay for buffering and encoding kicks in when recording.  I suspect keystrokes will transfer immediately as I am not going to try recording a(nother) failure at Dungeons of Daggorath.  I'll know after the weekend unless La Esposa drags me down to the Balloon Festival.
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