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

[Richard E. Crisilip]

On Tuesday 08 March 2011 22:43:52 gene heskett 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > bp
I absolutely concur with Gene on this advise. I have two of those boxes and 
they are worth their wieght in gold.