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  • Testing HP821634 A Video Interface

    From John Quirke@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 11 09:12:42 2021
    Hi, years ago, I bought a HP821634A video interface from the USA well, I've never used it and I want to sell it. So, I've tried testing it. So, I hooked it up to a TV and no joy. I then looked further (back page of the manual!) and found out that one
    needs a HP 82163B for the UK and that will only work with a monitor!!! 8-(

    So, am I wasting my time with this and should really get it recycled? Or, is there some adapter that I can get to hook the composite output up to a modern monitor? Any thoughts/advice will be much appreciated.

    John

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  • From Raymond Wiker@21:1/5 to John Quirke on Sat Sep 11 20:21:01 2021
    John Quirke <johnquirke1000@gmail.com> writes:

    Hi, years ago, I bought a HP821634A video interface from the USA well,
    I've never used it and I want to sell it. So, I've tried testing
    it. So, I hooked it up to a TV and no joy. I then looked further (back
    page of the manual!) and found out that one needs a HP 82163B for the
    UK and that will only work with a monitor!!! 8-(

    So, am I wasting my time with this and should really get it recycled?
    Or, is there some adapter that I can get to hook the composite output
    up to a modern monitor? Any thoughts/advice will be much appreciated.

    John

    I've had reasonably good results with the composite input on some
    not-so-recent Dell monitors, specifically 2005FPW and (possibly with
    slightly worse results) 2007FPW. There are also fairly cheap converters available, for converting composite video to HDMI. Any of these should
    have no problem with your video interface, even though it was built for
    US standards.

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