A question about monitors (groan). RGB to Scart to Component to VGA?

[Zac67]

As Franko stated, technically that wouldn't be a problem. Given acceptable quality components you probably wouldn't be able to tell a difference between component (YCbCr) and RGB - the VGA upscaler would probably add some slight blur though.

Additionally, you should check your TV for input compatibility - many accept component or S-Video signals as well. The latter would be very cheap to generate be hooking up an old S-Video genlock to your Miggy and far better than anything composite. May be slightly bulky though with the small 600.

Also, you can try running the RGB signal directly into the VGA input (with a bog standard VGA adapter for AGA machines). Apart from timing these signals are very similar and some flat TVs do accept 15 kHz RGB.

[Zac67]

A genlock is intended for mixing Amiga video with external video (for effects, captioning, ...) and some of them are S-Video capable, not all. Apart from the mixing, they convert the RGB signal and this is what you'd need.

Bought mine a couple of years ago on eBay for <10€, in Germany they're still quite common. E.g. this one is similar to mine and will do. Watch out for NTSC genlocks from the US - composite and S-Video are NOT compatible with PAL.

I used the genlock to generate a quality video signal to connect into a WinTV card in my PC to have the Amiga run in a window.

[Zac67]

Good suggestion - not necessarily cheapier than a bargain genlock but quality hardware for a good price.

@Stephen
The RocTec ones aren't very good and that one doesn't seem to support S-Video. The EV-10 is cheaper still and much better, and there's another Hama 290 on German eBay.