[Coco] Will this build-your-own s-video board work for CoCo 3?

[Rick Taylor]

So how would one go about getting one of those scan doubler boxes?

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:43 PM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 10:37:11 PM Blake Patterson did opine:
>
>> I recently acquired a CoCo 3 and want s-video (or component) output.
>>
>> I saw this a while ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDP8cvIXtFY
>>
>> Will the mentioned Neobitz board work if I wire the Coco 3 to it?
>>
>> http://neobitz.com/Pages/Mods/SystemMods.aspx
>>
> 10 years ago, when decent NTSC monitors were still occasionally available,
> this board may have been usable.
>
> However, finding a monitor that can accept NTSC signals, either as
> composite (spit) or RGB is today strictly a stumble over, pay your money,
> and chances are the capacitors are shot in the scan causing all the smoke
> to be let out 1/2 an hour after you turn it on, or has a bad crt, dim &
> with another image burned into it.
>
> So today, if we need a fresh monitor, we by a cheap LCD, and one of Roy
> Justices scan doubler boxes, which work fairly well.
>
>> Thanks.
>>
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>> bp
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