Good Composite->VGA converters for classic computers (& video games...)

[Eric J Korpela]

> All this talk about the Apple II composite video, and yet I swear I had at
> least one or two composite capture cards that could sync to it and grab it
> just fine... Iomega Buz perhaps?  I have captured video as proof on a CDROM
> so maybe that's a solution -- a brooktree or similar cheap capture card,
> displaying the results realtime on a VGA monitor?

I missed much of the earlier discussion.  I haven't had a problem
display Apple II composite with cheap (cheese block style) video->vga
converters.  Of course the color artifacts (colors on the left and
right edges of 40 column characters) are awful, the same way they were
awful on a real composite display.  It's amazing how we just accepted
them back in the day.  "Wow! it's color!"

The larger problem is how awful 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 output
from all these various converters look when scaled to 1680x1050 on a
22" LCD.  Ones that can output 1680x1050p directly are still well
outside my price range and since they're made for TV even they don't
have thresholded edge sharpening.

Eric