A520 S-Video thru cheapo VGA TV tuner

Total cost of this scandoubler:
$4 for A520 hack
$30 for seconhanded Hercules Smart TV
= $34 !

And now some piccies (click to zoom)

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monoscope 640x480x16 cols hires laced
There are glitches on high frequencies

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Monoscope close-up

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...and another monoscope close-up

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Workbench on my A600.
please note im using 640x480
and thus overscan is cropped
resolution 800x600 and higher
is badly resized and blurred :(

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Close-up on Hippoplayer
and mouse pointer

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Putty titlescreen, cropped
but looks fantastic for that price

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Putty ingame, very good picture,
sharp and vibrant colors
needs a lot of twiddling :)

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Putty closeup
minor blue bleeding, but you dont
want to see composite video in comparison :)

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also red bleeding is low due to smaller saturation :)

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high detail, Belinea 17" trinitron screen

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blue pixels, closeup

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red pixels, closeup

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75Hz RGB in all glory for $34 :)))

Amiga video out sharpness
(stay ~1m off the screen for best result)




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Composite
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S-video
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RGB