Re: video in on Dock1

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From: Angus F. Hewlett (afh1_at_ukc.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 04 1997 - 15:53:38 EDT


No, it looks like a VGA connector - 3-layer D-type connector - with some
of the pins blanked out. The manual says:
"The video-in connector (15 pin) is used to view images of multimedia on
the TFT LCD of the computer".

Which doesn't tell me what sort of input it expects.

Thanks anyway,
Angus.

Joshua Hosseinof wrote:
>
> Video-in connector? Does it look like a 3 pin mini-din connector? if so
> then it is video input from a tv source only anad it is only for the 755cd
> 760cd,ed and xd models. It's used for videeo capture.
>
> On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, A.F.Hewlett wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have a dock-1 with a video-in connector on it. Can I plug the output
> > from another computer's VGA or SVGA card in and use the Thinkpad's screen
> > (640x480 10.5" TFT on TP755c) as the display for this other machine? If
> > so, where do I get the lead and what happens if I accidentally
> > 'over-drive' the LCD - i.e. try and force it to run at a higher resolution
> > than it is capable of e.g. 800x600?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Angus.
> >
> >
> >


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