Hey folks. Silly question here but I hope someone can help me out a little…I have access to a really, really nice component video monitor. Looks like a standard NTSC TV but it has no tuner, just component, composite, and SVideo. I see there’s some adapters to convert the arcade signal to VGA and to composite/svideo but nothing for component, but there’s a converter to convert component to VGA. Could I just go directly to the composite inputs? What about if I were to get one of those arcade to VGA converters and slap a composite cable on the VGA port?
I think this is what you are looking for
I saw this on Paradise arcade.
http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/55-153-large/cga-vga-hd-video-converter.jpg
http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/video-converters-and-tools/55-cga-vga-hd-video-converter.html
Look into a JROK or NeoBitz, they’re basically the standard RGB to NTSC encoders for the past 10+ years. IIRC the JROK is more compatible with more PCBs out-of-the-box, but both could benefit from a sync cleaner.
Also there’s a circuit out there to do RGB to YPbPr with discrete components, I think a friend of mine has the schematic, I can ask him for it sometime.
You could get one of these.
So I take it then that going from jamma directly to component is a no-go?
Jamma is RGBs, component is something else (colour difference or whatever, point is it’s not straight red/green/blue), so no it doesn’t work just like that, you’ll need to transcode. I recommend a sync-cleaner and a component neobitz.
Very close, component (and s-video) is split into Lumina (B&W brightness) and Chroma (color information).
VGA and Scart carry over RGB values
Jamma is also RGB as far as video goes, it runs on older CGA or EGA video. As VGA made CGA and EGA obsolete, at the same time DVI made VGA obsolete.