#Video Dsiplays
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I have a new A500 on order. I the interest of $ and my marital status, I
would like to use a TV for the monitor. Can I purchase a modulator and use
this for a while ? I plan to use an old stereo amp I have to provide a
more realistic sound.
I would appreciate any opinions.
Thanks,
John, Commodore makes an adapter called the A520 which lets you use a TV.
It sells for about 45 bucks, and does a fairly good job. The picture will
never be great, but if you set the prefs to 60 character width the picture
will be more readable. The 520 has both RF and composite output. You could
use the composite with an old C64 monitor, if you have one lying about.
-Jim
If you have a composite input to your TV, you may prefer to get an
'encoder' or even one of the inexpensive 'genlocks' which you could then
use later in your video work.
Victor A. Wagner, Jr.
Vic:
I've been over at my local dealer while he's taken several genlocks and the
C= composite encoder (A520 is it?) and the encoder looks better than most
all the genlocks (including the supergen!) for strictly output (of course
the encoder can't do any of the other stuff that genlocks do!) I'd say the
C= encoder is the way to go.
-Mike Schiller
In sunny Fort Lauderdale
If you get the new `packaged' A-500's, they include an RF modulator, and
some free software to boot!
<David L. Gold>
Splunge Productions
John,
Commodore makes an adapter called the A520, which sells for around $50 that
will do what you ask. If you have a video input to your TV set, you'll get
better results using the video line instead of the modulator. If you do
have a video input, you can also consider an aftermarket device called the
VIP Video Interface (from DigiFex, I think) for around $100. While I don't
believe that it's a modulator, it is supposed to give a better quality
image in composite, and also has S-Video. (This is from memory. Somebody
please correct me if I'm mistaken.)
One caveat – unless you have a _very_ good TV, you'll probably be quite
disappointed in using it in place of an RGB monitor. Consider your own
future plans and whether you might be able to purchase a 1084S monitor for
not much more. There are also some used Amiga RGB monitors available at
reasonable prices from people upgrading to de-interlacers and multi-sync
monitors. One other thought – around here I wouldn't get much time on my
computer if I had to access to the TV set. 😉
Hope this helps, 8)
David
– via Whap!
John:
Another thought, get a Sony XBR series TV (or some of the KV series) that
have both RGB and composite inputs as well as being a TV (the TV part might
keep the wife happy!). I have a KV1311CR here, and it's a great TV
(complete with remote control) and it's RGB & Composite inputs make it into
a monitor better than the standard Amiga monitor!
-Mike Schiller
In sunny Fort Lauderdale