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The CED Magic site has some nice documentation and pictures of the first generation components.
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If that's the case I recommend you find a mid-80s Sony KV-20/25XBR or KX-19/2501. Those models have a "multi-input" connector that can be configured for analog RGB. I believe the pinout should be available from sources like pinouts dot ru, and the connector can be scavenged from a PC floppy drive cable.
I used to work as a co-op for IBM in the 90s, and at one point I got VGA RGB video to display on a KX-2501 they had lying around, using a video driver that output video with NTSC timing. |
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Some RCA sets of that era had RGB inputs, but they were only 1 bit TTL level input signal. Idea was that "Teletext" was expected to be the "next big thing" and that an RCA set top box (which never happened) was to receive, decode and feed RGB TTL signals into the set.
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I was not aware of RCA's teletext experiments, although if you say the set-top boxes that were supposed to decode the signals never materialized, then I guess their system never even came close to getting off the ground. Teletext may be a dead issue today because of Internet-connectable Blu-ray players, smart TVs that also have Internet connectivity, and other devices that connect to the World-Wide Web, including smartphones, tablets, et al. I think teletext, had it materialized, would have been a one-way system for the dissemination of news, weather, and sports updates, financial news, etc., not unlike today's MSNBC, et al. on cable TV.
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Did Curtis Mathes have a rebranded set up that was the Dimensia under the CM label?
I once saw a CM console set with the exact multi input/output connectors as the Dimensia series inclucing the SCART, and the epay auction site frequently has CM component audio pieces from that era that are remarkably similiar to the Dimensia component audio systems. |
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Teletext seems like it would have been awesome. Shame it was never implemented in the US
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So my Scart cable for SNES arrived. I hooked it up, set the TV to input 3 and it does display audio and sound from the SNES console.
However, it doesn't really look any better over the composite input. I understand that SCART can display composite also, but there is no way to tell if you are using RGB or Composite video? |
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that is a 1989 model it was made in the 32 week of 88
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Actually I have a question about this. So who actually made this set? Is it a Thomson since RCA sold out in 1986??? It's not a true RCA then.
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