[slinkelist] RF remote mouse

[Jonathan Scott]

I'm getting confused - when I went to school, NTSC only included about
500-odd scan lines. How then can it display any better vertical resolution
than this?
 
Thanks
 
Jonathan.

-----Original Message-----
From: skurzet [mailto:skurzet@uswest.net]
Sent: 16 December 1999 13:45
To: Tom Hammond-Doel
Cc: slinkelist@nirvis.com
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] RF remote mouse


An honest 5 MHz video bandwidth TV should do a good job with a 1024X768 scan
conversion to NTSC particularly when feeding demodulated video into the line
input rather than going through the tuner.  The converter and quality of the
2.4GHz modulator are another matter.  Newer video cards like the ATI convert
a max of 800X600  and that may not show sufficient detail.  I like to run my
Windows at 1280X1024, large font, so I can have a lot of info on screen
without so much scrolling, but a converter to handle that would be a budget
buster.
 
Anyhow, I only need to go about 15 feet and one wall, so the RF link ought
to be pretty tight.  Based on the replies I have seen so far, I,m leaning
hard toward the IR keyboard (with integral mouse) rather than just the RF
mouse.  Also, I think that I will use the 300MHz band IR extender for the
keyboard and use the 2.4 GHz to feed the PC video/audio to the TV.
 
Stan 
 
 
- Original Message ----- 

From: Tom Hammond-Doel <mailto:tom.hammond-doel@vixel.com>  
To: skurzet <mailto:skurzet@uswest.net>  
Cc: slinkelist@nirvis.com <mailto:slinkelist@nirvis.com>  
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] RF remote mouse

Yep.  Not too impressed.  I had to set the monitor to 480x600 just to get
adequate resolution.  Others may have had better luck, or my TV is simply
too old.  The range they claim is also suspect.  If you don't have that far
to go (on the order of 30-40') it might be OK.  The remote mouse has even
less range capabilities.  Check out an earlier blurb about the X10 remote
mouse. 

skurzet wrote: 


Troops: Possible answer to the out-of-sight hardware control predicament.
Stumbled over an X-10 blurb http://www.x10.com/products/offer60.htm
<http://www.x10.com/products/offer60.htm>   for an RF remote mouse and 2.4
GHz A/V sender/receiver intended to control a PC DVD player and send the
pix/sound to a tv via RF.  Price is $70. It occurs to me that this would be
a super way to control Slink-e  when the PC is in a remote location.  The
X-10 RF mouse should control the PC.  A 1024X768 or better composite NTSC
output video adapter or scan converter should send a good  PC screen to the
local TV or video monitor along with the PC's sounds using the DVD A/V
sending facility. Has anyone tried this? Stan