[Coco] CoCo 2 to HDMI/LCD Monitor

[Robert Emery]

You should be using a TV rather than a monitor. Most will have composite,,
component, S, RF and HDMI inputs, so you don't need a converter.
 If you want HDMI out of your CoCo 2, look up AC's 8bit Zone on YT. Works
great!

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 8:55 AM M. David Johnson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Thank you, Frank -
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> Unfortunately, the circuit diagrams (or pictures ??) don't seem to have
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> it through the email gauntlet unscathed.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> On Behalf Of Francis Swygert via
> Coco
> Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 8:52 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Cc: Francis Swygert <farna at att.net>
> Subject: [Coco] CoCo 2 to HDMI/LCD Monitor
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> On 2/12/2022 6:33 am, M. David Johnson via Coco wrote:
> > On a side note, I was under the impression that the video output on the
> CoCo 2 is straight RF.
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> > I recently picked up an RF-to-HDMI converter to experiment with and, of
> course, the lashup produces no HDMI picture ?
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> > Could anybody point me towards what I'm likely to be missing here?
> I did a little digging. Most of what I found was CoCo3 related. I did find
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> couple composite video circuits for a CoCo2 (different from coCo1!). Use
> this then a composite to HDMI converter.
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