Canopus ADVC110 to Computer Monitor–is it possible?

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Petteruto] “Can I replace the TV with a computer monitor? If so how would I do this?”

I assume you are doing this because you want to color correct SD footage. In this case, a computer monitor based on non-CRT technology won’t give you the luminance range that you need (true blacks and whites). You really should use a proper SD broadcast monitor or get a TV that has composite or S-Video inputs.

If you really want to do this, you would need a computer monitor that accepted analog input since the ADVC110 is an analog device (component, S-Video, or composite). Those computer monitors that do can usually double as a TV if you plug a cable box into them.

I don’t see what added value using a computer monitor would bring you for SD footage. You are probably not getting clean output because you’re using composite out (yellow cable). Switch to using component out (red, green, blue) or S-Video out will improve your output significantly.

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

Thanks for the info John. Since the Canopus ADVC110 does not have RGB outputs I guess I could try the S-video and see what happens.

Thanks
Dave P.

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[John Rofrano]

Yea. S-Video should make some improvement.

~jr

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