What I am discovering, after buying quite a few monitors and TVs, is that the "standards" used, apparently aren't actually standard...
And I can't work out specifically whats going on....
My latest discovery, is that a Dell 2007fp 4:3 monitor, that features svideo and composite.
Excellent!
Except, they won't accept the output from a Sega Mega Drive, in either s video, or composite, it also doesn't work with the composite signal from an AT Games "Mega Drive" hand held console, nor a cheapo Chinese game console.... It will however accept the signal from a plug and play Tetris game... why?
Its not the sync frequency, they're all 15.7khz, and I've measured this! It will most likely also accept the composite signal from newer consoles, such as the Nintendo GameCube, also 15.7khz...
I started investigating this more, in relation to the RGB scart to YUV/component adapters, and some people having them simply not work, and the reasoning people gave, was that the TV couldn't accept the 15.7khz on the component inputs, or, that it didn't like the bi level sync from the RGB signal...
But this isn't the case, because once again, I have known 15.7khz sources, that simply don't work on the component input, then others that do! Or I can plug a 15.7khz composite signal directly into the components "green" connector, and have it display an image, from some sources... but then not others....
So, why?! whats going on? how is svideo and composite a standard, that apparently some people didn't follow as a standard? :hammer:
