Monitor Solutions

[danwinslow]

I am trying to find a VGA monitor that can be used with my Mega STE. I have a special cable from best electronics that converts the 13 pin DIN from the Mega to VGA. That seems to work fine for mono output, but the color output horizontal scan rate is around 15khz, which is out of range for all of my monitors. So...I am looking for a currently produced monitor that has a horizontal frequency low of 15khz...or some suggestions as to how to locate a used monitor that has that HF scan rate ( besides ebay )..*OR* an answer to this question :

 

I know about VGA upscan converters...I know these take composite/RGB and upscan it to standard VGA...but can they be used to 'upscan' the horizontal frequency? The one I have has a VGA input, but I kind of thought maybe that was just a passthrough, but now I am wondering if it could double the horizontal frequency scan rate on the way through.

[belboz]

http://www.microvitec.co.uk/ Makes a monitor that should support the color resolutions. No idea on price.

 

You can actually find monitors capable of handling the 15kHz hor sync rate. Do a google search, many are quite expensive though. Seems like many are targeted to the medical field.

 

Most of those converters you are referring to have the vga input as a passthrough so you can still use an SVGA source on your monitor (typically your PC) besides having the ability to convert composite and or s-video to SVGA.