Date   : Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:40:39 +0100
From   : faz@... (neil f)
Subject: Monitors

Hey Daniel, I use a Samsung LCD too. 

Mine is a 17" 172MP, which also has picture-in-picture and a TV tuner built
in. I find the p-i-p is great for use with a beeb connected to the
comp-video input (I haven't tried the s-video input yet) - everything is
perfectly readable in the small frame tucked into the corner of the screen.
As I also use a 4-way KVM switch, I can flick between a PC, Iyonix and RISC
PC at press of a button. Additionally, I can flick between viewing TV
channels or the beeb in the small p-i-p frame too.

-Neil F.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bbc-micro-bounces+faz=nildram.co.uk@... 
> [mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+faz=nildram.co.uk@...
] On Behalf Of D.G. van der Pol
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:04 PM
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Monitors
> 
> I have quite a lot computers which rely on lowscan monitors 
> or televisions. As a lot of my monitors from Philips broke 
> down on me with a big flame from the HT transformer, I 
> decided to buy a LCD television/VGA monitor with both 
> composite and RGB inputs.
> My Samsung SM910MP is great, playing with my BBC and have 
> Picture in Picture to watch TV!
> This should take me another 10 years until I have to find 
> another solution for the defective monitors.
> Good luck!
> 
> Dani?l G.
> 
> 
> Op 3-apr-2008, om 15:56 heeft francis@... het volgende 
> geschreven:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> What are you guys using for BBC monitors these days?
> >
> > I'm using an Acorn AKF18 (14" multisync monitor supplied with some  
> > 32-bit Acorns), and a cable that I made with resistors on the R,G,  
> > and B lines and with the BBC's Csync output wired to Hsync on the  
> > monitor (possibly with a resistor, I can't remember).
> >
> > I'm sure the AKF18 won't last forever, so what I'd ideally like is  
> > a scan-converter type piece of hardware that upscaled to  
> > 1280x1024.  Because 1280x1024 is a multiple of 640x256 and the  
> > other beeb resolutions there'd be no blurring when displaying this  
> > on a 1280x1024 LCD (and it'd also look nice on CRTs).   
> > Unfortunately I'm not really a hardware person so I have no idea  
> > how difficult it would be to make such a piece of hardware.
> >
> >> I'm looking to hook it up to a 1084s. My choices are to clip the  
> >> RGB and
> >> feed the analogue input, or feed the digital input. But I still  
> >> have to
> >> generate H/V sync from the sync output of the BBC... anyone  
> >> already doing
> >> this out of interest?
> >
> > I think that you can get seperate H and V sync signals from the  
> > pins of one of the chips inside a BBC, but as others have 
> mentioned  
> > feeding a 1084s with Csync you won't need them.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Francis
> >
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