[Coco] LCD TV with CoCo 3

[Mike Pepe]

> -----Original Message-----
> If it has an rca jack, it probably will work as well as composite ever did on a
> coco3, which means the 80 column screen modes aren't really usable
> because the text is to smeared when its squeezed into NTSC bandwidth
> molds by using composite.
> 
> One should bear in mind too, that even if such a tv/monitor claims a triple
> comb filter, that this feature isn't very helpful for the composite output of
> the coco since it is _not_ color interlaced as a true NTSC signal would be.
> 
> >I will be looking for one that also has a VGA connector, so that
> >someday I could use the RGB to VGA converter with it.
> 
> You would be better off to plan on doing that right up front, the results will
> be much better visually.  I have a 22" Samsung HDTV with a db15 input that
> lost its tuner, but the rest of it still works like brand new.  My milling
> machines control interface is absolutely stunning on a 1680x1050 screen, but
> it won't fit in the monitor cubby hole so I'm stuck with a
> 1280x1024 screen on a 15" crt.  Bummer, but I get used to it.
> 

One of these days I'm going to wrap my head around the problem of the analog RGB to component video conversion. Then you could use the CoCo3 on any HDTV, probably with pretty good results.