On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Wayne Rooney wrote: > I saw a circuit once in an electronics magazine for getting the sync off the > green so you could use a standard monitor. It was pretty simple. > > I think Phillips used to do sync-on-green monitors (big heavy 19" ones).
I'm not sure where the manual for our Philips screen is but I think it can handle sync-on-green via the BNC inputs. I'm not that impressed with Sony monitors. Two friends at work both have them; one a 19" and the other a 17". The supplied VGA cables are so bad they couldn't run them beyond about 800x600 without the image smearing. The guy with the 19" got a BNC cable for it and it's tack-sharp now no matter how hard he pushes it. The 17" only has the one input, and the cable is fixed - I told him he should return the monitor. I was amazed that Sony put in all the effort to design a good monitor, only to cripple it with a cheap & nasty VGA cable. I tried the same BNC cable on the Philips 19" here and I could barely tell any difference between the BNC and the supplied VGA cable even at 1600x1200x85Hz which is far beyond where I normally use it. I was expecting a significant difference so I got a bit of a pleasant surprise. Cheers, -- - Dave... http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (somewhat out of date)
