[Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer, the CoCo-X

[Frank Pittel]

Hany onto that monitor!! It is a rare bird indeed. I've been to Fry's,
Microcenter, Bestbuy (boo), Walmart, etc and checked the inputs of all
their TVs and monitors and didn't find a single model that had all three!

The Other Frank


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:33:43PM -0400, James Hrubik wrote:
> My Samsung Syncmaster XL2370HD has VGAm DVI, HDMI, composite, and
> component inputs.  Its a TV tuner, but I use it as a 23"/1920x1080
> monitor for my Mac Mini.  Got it at Sam's Club several years ago,
> but I haven't seen any lately with the same array of inputs.
> 
> On Mar 20, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> 
> >Last fall when I got my raspberry PI I noticed a few things about
> >hdmi, dvi and vga.
> >
> >The first is that (at the time at least) is that most if not all
> >TVs and monitors have
> >a vga input. Interestingly enough monitors normally have both vga
> >and dvi and I didn't see
> >a single one with hdmi. At the same time TVs (monitor with a tuner
> >these days) have vga and
> >hdmi but no dvi. Also the "cheap" hdmi to dvi converters are
> >actually expensive! Another
> >interesting thing I discoverd is that not all converters work with
> >all monitors and some
> >monitors don't work with hdmi converted to dvi period!
> >
> >I hope I'm wrong about the inputs on the monitors and tvs and
> >would love a display with
> >one each of vga, dvi, hdmi! I'm not holding my breath though
> >
> >I agree that in the long run vga is a dead end.
> >
> >The Other Frank
> >
> 
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