Agafaster wrote:
has anyone tried one of those Avermedia VGA Gamer TV thingies ?
Those AVermedia boxes have been around almost forever, or at least as long as Amiga SD/FF -haven't- been available :-)
I got one at least 6 years ago that accepts S-video & comp video and spits out VGA, which I thought would be my holy grail of 15 KHz horizontal scan elimination. So I connected my best genlocks to the Amiga RGB port to generate the S-video, and the results were poor at best for text display. And the quality of genlock does matter; I have most types ever built, and the S-video output from the cheesey RocGen etc. is almost unreadable.
Then the bad news. The output almost fried my best multisync monitor at the time. I suspect the VGA output was non-spec, and it permanantly screwed the horizontal linearity of the monitor after a short time.
Maybe the currents AVermedia won't cook your monitor, but I don't think they will make even S-video look any better. The only good thing was I only lost about $45, not counting the monitor.
