>>I have a dock with a monitor port. Here's the situation I'd like some
>>advice on: I'd like to have the slides appear on the duo screen AND a
>>television monitor via co-ax cable. Anyone know of a cheap adapter that
>>will allow this? Anyone willing to rent me one for the month of January?
>>Sell one? Know of what I should be looking for on ebay?
>
>TVator is one name, there are probably others on the market. I used
>one on a duo dock to output to a TV and it should do the trick for
>you. Accepts a VGA output and turns it into TV. Don't have it anymore,
>sorry. BTW if you see on on eBay, it's cross platform.
This is one strategy (attach an NTSC convertor to the Mac monitor output).
Since we're talking about a Duo, another is to use a Powerlink Presentor
minidock and connect it directly to a TV or VCR's video in RCA jack (not
coax - well, you can use a coax RCA cable, but the Presentor comes with its
own cable, which you should use). These were cleared out on onsale.com a
few years ago, and you should be able to get one fairly cheaply these days
(certainly under $100 US). The dock actually does a very good job of a
viewable 640x480x8-bit TV display, with some hardware convolution to reduce
flicker and increase text readability. Results with the VGA convertors
vary, but they won't generally be any better than the Presentor, and may be
more expensive. I think the Presentor may even be able to do PAL for
displays outside North America (I'm not certain of this, though, and no
longer have the manual to check).
There are also NuBus cards that produce an NTSC display, but I expect
they'd be seriously rare and expensive.
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