On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:39:59 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> in addition, anyone who doesn't have
>> these connectors (both in Europe and North America) will never
>> try to install one, unless we already are technician types who have
>> experience inside TV sets......I think you can rest easy....we
>> have heard your warning, and (you will notice that I echo your
>> warning at this top, I did not discount it) no one will carelessly
>> do this......
> When you mentioned europe/US you seemed to forget Middle east.
> I'm very intrested in trying to do this.. I dont know much in
> electronics.. and that plug doesnt exist in Israeli TV sets.
> (though its still PAL. We got the Antenne plug.).
> Any idea on what I should try to do? ..or should I just drop
> the idea and get one of those expensive VGA-to-TV commercial
> convertors? (which seems to work only with Windows. Thats what
> they all state on the box, anyway.)
> I think that I should mention again that I have what seems to be
> a cable with one of its ends is a stereo A/V plugs, and in the other
> side a SCART plug. Since my television has a stereo A/V plugs
> in addition to the PAL antenne plug, is it a good chance to add
> "SCART support" to my TV using this cable? or should I still
> try to buy a commercial thing? :)
Or ........that A/V plug set is exactly what I was talking about as
"north american" setup.....FYI, the Video input to your set will
accept a VGA-type signal...a VGA-type signal is similar to a standard
Video signal.....the differences are in the Horizontal and Vertical
Scan frequencies....to get these frequencies to match your TV set
frequencies, the Video Card driver is written to poke the proper
values into the Video Card registers, and then the Video Card will
output the frequencies that your TV set reads.....that is what the
DOS techniques all do.....upwards from DOS (Win, OS2, etc), you
could do the same, but writing the drivers is much more difficult.
You MUST ensure, that your load back your proper Computer Monitor
drivers whenever you switch back to that, because driving a Monitor
with the wrong frequencies can burn it up......
gregy
BTW....the standard VGA-to-TV adaptors work differently, and are
now selling for under $100.....
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