[OT] Monitor recommendations with a wide hsync range

[David Timms]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2008 03:11, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>> Is there any other way to make a square fit to a circle? Here RGB signal
>>> is a requirement --- s-video, composite and similar stuff are out of the
>>> picture, unfortunately.
>> One of the guys on the coco list is making a scan doubler that takes RGB at
>> NTSC scan rates, and doubles the data rate, then doubles the line to be fed
>> to a vga monitor.  It works quite well on my coco3.  I have no idea if it
>> could be used on a PAL system or not.
>>
>> Email: RJRTTY at aol.com
> 
> Thanks for the pointer. I've heard of these scan doublers, it seems that such 
> a device is an interface for precisely this purpose. But I don't know can it  
> be bought in a store (or on the net somewhere) or it just exists as a 
> solder-it-yourself kit...
You can get commercial ones from various audiovisual equipment 
manufacturers such as extron, altinex {maybe}, scan-do, sony {not sure 
if the one I'm thinking of is still available}. Scalers would tend to 
have extra capabilities you might not need.

DaveT.