Date   : Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:37:40 +0100
From   : dominic@... (Dominic Beesley)
Subject: OT was Re: UM1233 TV modulators...

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From: "Francis Devereux" <francis@...>
To: "'bbc-micro List'" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] OT was Re: UM1233 TV modulators...


> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:26:57PM +0200, Anders Carlsson wrote:
>> Pete Turnbull wrote:
>>
>> > Normally the signal is indeed monochrome,
>>
>> Is there a good reason why this is the case? Is the video signal inside 
>> the
[snip]
>
> The green-screen monochrome monitors that I have seen used the composite
> connector which would support your idea that the colour burst was not
> included to improve the quality of the monochrome signal.  I don't know 
> how
> much difference it would make though.
[snip]

It can make a fair difference especially to MODE 0 / 3, I quite often flip 
the lid and turn colour off whilst coding and put it back when playing 
games...Though the serious coding machines all run off the RGB rather than 
Composite

Dom