VGA Converter Boxes - Revision history

Joseph.Wharfe at 17:59, 7 August 2019

2019-08-07T17:59:47Z

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	Driven by the steadily worsening condition of the [[Cub Conversion]] monitors, and having failed to find an affordable source of working colour video monitors (most professional monitors being very expensive unless they were broke or nearly so, and cheap CCTV monitors being mostly black and white), more ideas were needed to achieve a monitor rack upgrade.		Driven by the steadily worsening condition of the [[Cub Conversion]] monitors, and having failed to find an affordable source of working colour video monitors (most professional monitors being very expensive unless they were broke or nearly so, and cheap CCTV monitors being mostly black and white), more ideas were needed to achieve a monitor rack upgrade.

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	In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and it had advantages, including being smaller and having slightly more conveniently located ports. After finding no major difference in quality, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements blagged, this was not a problem.		In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and it had advantages, including being smaller and having slightly more conveniently located ports. After finding no major difference in quality, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements blagged, this was not a problem.

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Dummy User: add to category

2008-03-08T20:13:00Z

add to category

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	In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and it had advantages, including being smaller and having slightly more conveniently located ports. After finding no major difference in quality, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements blagged, this was not a problem.		In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and it had advantages, including being smaller and having slightly more conveniently located ports. After finding no major difference in quality, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements blagged, this was not a problem.

			[[Category: Equipment]]

Sprow: Hertz hurts

2007-06-08T07:44:49Z

Hertz hurts

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	Driven by the steadily worsening condition of the [[Cub Conversion]] monitors, and having failed to find an affordable source of working colour video monitors (most professional monitors being very expensive unless they were broke or nearly so, and cheap CCTV monitors being mostly black and white), more ideas were needed to achieve a monitor rack upgrade.		Driven by the steadily worsening condition of the [[Cub Conversion]] monitors, and having failed to find an affordable source of working colour video monitors (most professional monitors being very expensive unless they were broke or nearly so, and cheap CCTV monitors being mostly black and white), more ideas were needed to achieve a monitor rack upgrade.

	The prospects for "doing another cub job" seemed pretty poor, as VGA computer monitors need a higher scan rate (minimum ~~60HZ~~) and have different picture sizes. Inventing an adaptor circuit seemed pretty much impossible, and Google didn't have any answers either. [[Richard Ash]] was convinced he had seen such a device in use during his gap year, so the idea was rattled around quite a lot. With the massive switch to flat screens, 14" and 15" CRT monitors became available on the second hand market very widely, and essentially zero cost. Whilst the build quality of these was no better than of the Cubs, the supply showed no signs of drying up, so replacements could always be found, providing the conversion wasn't too firmly attached to the monitors. It now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future.		The prospects for "doing another cub job" seemed pretty poor, as VGA computer monitors need a higher scan rate (minimum 60Hz) and have different picture sizes. Inventing an adaptor circuit seemed pretty much impossible, and Google didn't have any answers either. [[Richard Ash]] was convinced he had seen such a device in use during his gap year, so the idea was rattled around quite a lot. With the massive switch to flat screens, 14" and 15" CRT monitors became available on the second hand market very widely, and essentially zero cost. Whilst the build quality of these was no better than of the Cubs, the supply showed no signs of drying up, so replacements could always be found, providing the conversion wasn't too firmly attached to the monitors. It now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future.

	In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and it had advantages, including being smaller and having slightly more conveniently located ports. After finding no major difference in quality, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements ~~bragged~~, this was not a problem.		In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and it had advantages, including being smaller and having slightly more conveniently located ports. After finding no major difference in quality, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements blagged, this was not a problem.

Dummy User: A little more on why the cheaper boxes were chosen

2007-05-13T18:53:55Z

A little more on why the cheaper boxes were chosen

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	The prospects for "doing another cub job" seemed pretty poor, as VGA computer monitors need a higher scan rate (minimum 60HZ) and have different picture sizes. Inventing an adaptor circuit seemed pretty much impossible, and Google didn't have any answers either. [[Richard Ash]] was convinced he had seen such a device in use during his gap year, so the idea was rattled around quite a lot. With the massive switch to flat screens, 14" and 15" CRT monitors became available on the second hand market very widely, and essentially zero cost. Whilst the build quality of these was no better than of the Cubs, the supply showed no signs of drying up, so replacements could always be found, providing the conversion wasn't too firmly attached to the monitors. It now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future.		The prospects for "doing another cub job" seemed pretty poor, as VGA computer monitors need a higher scan rate (minimum 60HZ) and have different picture sizes. Inventing an adaptor circuit seemed pretty much impossible, and Google didn't have any answers either. [[Richard Ash]] was convinced he had seen such a device in use during his gap year, so the idea was rattled around quite a lot. With the massive switch to flat screens, 14" and 15" CRT monitors became available on the second hand market very widely, and essentially zero cost. Whilst the build quality of these was no better than of the Cubs, the supply showed no signs of drying up, so replacements could always be found, providing the conversion wasn't too firmly attached to the monitors. It now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future.

	In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and ~~after {{unsure\|ascertaining that they were of the same~~ quality}}, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements bragged, this was not a problem.		In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and it had advantages, including being smaller and having slightly more conveniently located ports. After finding no major difference in quality, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements bragged, this was not a problem.

Dummy User: We didn't buy 8 more of the original devices, we bought 8 of the cheaper ones.. didnt we?

2007-05-06T17:02:47Z

We didn't buy 8 more of the original devices, we bought 8 of the cheaper ones.. didnt we?

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	The prospects for "doing another cub job" seemed pretty poor, as VGA computer monitors need a higher scan rate (minimum 60HZ) and have different picture sizes. Inventing an adaptor circuit seemed pretty much impossible, and Google didn't have any answers either. [[Richard Ash]] was convinced he had seen such a device in use during his gap year, so the idea was rattled around quite a lot. With the massive switch to flat screens, 14" and 15" CRT monitors became available on the second hand market very widely, and essentially zero cost. Whilst the build quality of these was no better than of the Cubs, the supply showed no signs of drying up, so replacements could always be found, providing the conversion wasn't too firmly attached to the monitors. It now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future.		The prospects for "doing another cub job" seemed pretty poor, as VGA computer monitors need a higher scan rate (minimum 60HZ) and have different picture sizes. Inventing an adaptor circuit seemed pretty much impossible, and Google didn't have any answers either. [[Richard Ash]] was convinced he had seen such a device in use during his gap year, so the idea was rattled around quite a lot. With the massive switch to flat screens, 14" and 15" CRT monitors became available on the second hand market very widely, and essentially zero cost. Whilst the build quality of these was no better than of the Cubs, the supply showed no signs of drying up, so replacements could always be found, providing the conversion wasn't too firmly attached to the monitors. It now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future.

	In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A ~~further~~ 8 were ~~then~~ bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements bragged, this was not a problem.		In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A cheaper alternative was discovered, and after {{unsure\|ascertaining that they were of the same quality}}, 8 of the cheaper boxes were bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements bragged, this was not a problem.

Dummy User: about the story of the VGA converters

2007-05-05T19:22:47Z

about the story of the VGA converters

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Driven by the steadily worsening condition of the [[Cub Conversion]] monitors, and having failed to find an affordable source of working colour video monitors (most professional monitors being very expensive unless they were broke or nearly so, and cheap CCTV monitors being mostly black and white), more ideas were needed to achieve a monitor rack upgrade.

The prospects for "doing another cub job" seemed pretty poor, as VGA computer monitors need a higher scan rate (minimum 60HZ) and have different picture sizes. Inventing an adaptor circuit seemed pretty much impossible, and Google didn't have any answers either. [[Richard Ash]] was convinced he had seen such a device in use during his gap year, so the idea was rattled around quite a lot. With the massive switch to flat screens, 14" and 15" CRT monitors became available on the second hand market very widely, and essentially zero cost. Whilst the build quality of these was no better than of the Cubs, the supply showed no signs of drying up, so replacements could always be found, providing the conversion wasn't too firmly attached to the monitors. It now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future.

In 2005 a suitable device was finally located, and a unit bought as a test. This proved to be a great success, giving much better picture quality than many of the Cubs they replaced. A further 8 were then bought to enable the worse half of the Cubs on the monitor rack to be retired from October 2006, and the remainder the following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and reliable brightness and colour, provided that the monitor itself works. Once a few of the worst VGA monitors had been disposed of and replacements bragged, this was not a problem.