CGA monitor on eBay

[Jules Richardson]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 08:16 +0200, Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:04 +0100, Stan Barr wrote:
> > > Most UK televisions outside the really, *really* budget level have RGB 
> > > inputs, and have had for about 15 years...
> > 
> > The tv in my den here (UK) is a *real* budget 14-inch one, it has SCART
> > and composite video in.  The black and white 5-inch portable I bought
> > last year (to run my ZX-81) cost about 25 pounds ($45) - that has
> > composite video in.
> Yeah, but likely the RGB in isn't wired. Pretty much every TV made in
> Europe since some time in the 80s has had SCART, but the RGB signal is
> probably a fairly new thing.

Surely it's easier to provide RGB inputs than composite though - to do
RGB (and seperate sync inputs) isn't it almost as simple as feeding the
signals into the right point of the existing TV circuitry, whereas to
cope with composite you'd need circuitry to split the signals out at
extra cost?

You could well be right though - I'm almost certain that my Domesday
setup (which only does video overlay on RGB outputs) wouldn't work with
my cheap 14" TV via the SCART connector when I tried it.

cheers

Jules