[Wear-Hard] re: RE: VGA to NTSC conversion

[Justin Shands]

Which brings me to my next question... if I output VGA at 640x480, and this
box converts it to NTSC... does it show up properly on the display even
though it's a 300x225 display? Does the NTSC format scale in this fashion?
Or do I need to output the VGA at 300x225(in which case I would need a scan
converter which supported this mode)?

Thanks for the tips so far, I should have planned this out more before
purchasing, but I was excited about the spy car displays being in stock.

 - Justin

On 10/2/07, Daniel Tso <dan at tsolab.org> wrote:
>
> Justin Shands wrote:
> > *>Daniel Tso wrote:*
> >  >I used to get these small VGA->NTSC converters for $40 that worked
> >  >perfectly fine... not sure if you think they'd be costing a lot
> more...
> >
> > Any current examples? The closest I can find is eBay, and even those
> > seem to be in the 60-80 dollar range, for brands that seem shady and
> > bulky units.
>
> Its unlikely that I can now get those same units, but I do see on ebay
> a few in the $40 range, including one that is powered from the keyboard
> socket (5V, just like the previous units I had ... I built a PS/2 to
> USB cable to power the unit from USB), and another $40 unit that is
> more flexible in its input (it can apparently accept up to XGA video
> input):
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AITech-Web-Cable-PC-VGA-to-NTSC-TV-Scan-Converter_W0QQitemZ200157314682QQihZ010QQcategoryZ3666QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Laptop-Mac-PC-VGA-to-TV-S-Video-Converter-1024x768-NTSC_W0QQitemZ190158694559QQihZ009QQcategoryZ3759QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I just bought one of the latter ones to see how well it works...
> doesn't hurt to have more of these around... :-) (I had 5 of the
> previous ones, which I used with the old Albatech Personal Monitors
> HMD's... worked pretty well)...
>
>
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