Whats the difference in the display quality VGA versus composite video?
VGA is certainly sharper, and certainly requires no scan converter. This is good, because in the field, you might not want to set up a scan converter if you are going to be located within 20-25 feet of the prompter location (that is, the camera). And if you do not have a producer, or a director, or a client who wants to see the scrolling text while the scene is being shot, then VGA will work well. Multi-camera setups can be composite video, where you can just loop from one monitor to the next one, even give the script supervisor their own monitor…and if you’re mounting a little prompter on a jib, forget VGA—you can run composite video for 100′ with no problem. Multi-camera systems using VGA monitors require home cable runs to a splitter/amplifier. This works well in smaller studios where the VGA cabling is run to each individual prompter. 5.
