Can an Amiga display HDTV resolutions and out put to component video?

[carls]

Yikes, no SCART in North America? That was completely new to me... SCART is very common on TVs in Sweden nowadays.

About the 1084 SCART thing, is the picture quality on those monitors better, worse or the same as on the ones with other connectors? IIRC my old 1084 had a 9-pin connector but I might be wrong here...

[aardvark]

I think that governments in Europe mandated that the companies making TV/video monitors had to have Scart connectors, but in the US companies hate to be told to do anything by the government  :-)

Might have something to do with the lower resolutions of NTSC monitors. RGB connectors on expensive TVs disappeared after S-video conectors came out. My XBR Sony has RGB but no S-video :-(  

The transcoder solution looks like it would work with 4000, 3000, and maybe 1200s, but not a CDTV,600 or 500.  You can get VGA boards for the 2000, so that would work.

[DonnyEMU]

My well thought out Amiga 1000 still has a port where you plug a RF modulator into. It seems to be the same separated composite port that fits a C=64 128 video cable. In it you can plug in a cable designed for a 1702 monitor that has separated chroma and luma (hey just like S-VIDEO before it came out but different size connector)..

Someone used to make a cable that plugged in that did 64/128/a1000 to SVIDEO direct using that same port.. Also someone made a composite/S-video adapter for the RGB port that was broadcast quality for cheap. I remember that in toaster world magazine.

Hope that helps some..

[iamaboringperson]

DonnyEMU wrote:
My well thought out Amiga 1000 still has a port where you plug a RF modulator into. It seems to be the same separated composite port that fits a C=64 128 video cable. In it you can plug in a cable designed for a 1702 monitor that has separated chroma and luma (hey just like S-VIDEO before it came out but different size connector)..

Someone used to make a cable that plugged in that did 64/128/a1000 to SVIDEO direct using that same port.. Also someone made a composite/S-video adapter for the RGB port that was broadcast quality for cheap. I remember that in toaster world magazine.

Hope that helps some..

I'm not 100% sure, but I have one of those cables(not an A1000 computer however), and from memory it wouldn't work with my c64.
I don't think the pinouts are the same. :-)

[olegil]

@carls:

SCART is just the connector. The picture quality comes from the cable, not the connector.

Mine is _crisp_, though. Really excellent picture ;-)

[lempkee]

1084s has a 9pin , 1084 has scart ..

though there was mixed versions also.

ie you could find a 1084s with scart

commodore was good at making diffrent standards without saying so..

and the winner is thoose who have the 1084s with scart..


cheers

[carls]

@olegil
Ok, I thought that SCART cables were of lesser quality than the 9-pin connectors. My bad :-)

@lempkee
Yeah, now that you say so it was a 1084s I had. That explains it.