On 07-Jul-00, Robin Harbron wrote: > Steve Judd and I are equally excited about finally seeing > our PAL 64's in colour :) > > Nicolas Welte wrote: >> I didn't look at that page yet, but I already have a similar device, and >> it works great with both PAL and NTSC machines. I got it used for DM100, >> it is one of those standalone TV tuner boxes which you can connect to a >> VGA monitor. Since BT848 based TV cards are so popular, nobody wants the >> external ones anymore, but it is fine for me. > > I didn't know that such a thing existed - can you give us the > exact name and model of this device? I'd like to look for one! > > I've been looking into multi-standard televisions for this same > purpose (using PAL devices in colour) for the last little while, > but one of these devices seems both more versatile and more > cost-effective. There are analogue colour standard converters which take a PAL composite signal as input and output an NTSC composite signal. These don't convert the field rate, so the output is "NTSC 50". Assuming you have a TV or monitor which can handle a 50Hz signal, this would be a good option for using a PAL C64 on an NTSC-only monitor. Most Commodore ones would work, 1081, 1084 etc. (A proper 50Hz-to-60Hz standards converter would probably make the image less clear.) I seem to remember them costing US$80 or so at MCM Electronics (http://www.i-mcm.com/). Similar units can convert NTSC to PAL. -- Mark - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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