[Coco] Using my Coco on VGA monitor alternative?

[Derek]

>From what I have researched the delay can happen when recording, not suring straight playback. Some of the software that comes with the cards allows you to adjust the time shift to synch the write times to your HD and the broadcast. I found a Phillips chip set based card on e-bay that has good reviews I won and sent for it. I have a spare 160GB HD that I can use to record football games (Go Seahawks!) as well as using the card for my vintage systems. 





wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote: 


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From: Phill Harvey-Smith 
> 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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