I have one of those officially manufactured, first party DC VGA boxes. I've had it for years, and one peculiar thing about it was that the dang thing never worked with my LCD TV as it would display in fine Engrish "not support!" every time I tried. Some time later I got myself a nice gaming projector and it worked like a charm, no issue at all.
Well, as I'm sure has happened to countless others here, it was only a matter of time before I couldn't play DC on a 100' projector without holding my vomit, even with the VGA box rock'n'rollin without issue, the picture still suffered from being so blown up and me not having that much space in my basement to sit further back. So, that ruled out my gaming projector.
Then I got my hands on a Lacie Blue Electron 22 III and I fell in love with it! I even sold off my ROG Swift - I know, what a sucker I am, right? Well the ROG never had any VGA inputs anyway, so it was a win for all retro gamers everywhere - you guys can appreciate that.
Well that ol' VGA port on the Lacie dun didn't like my VGA box none. In fact, that nice Electron Blue was the first monitor to flash me a warning and tell me the DC VGA box was outputting at an unsupported vertical refresh rate of 15khz. I looked at that and went "...huh, wonder what the hell that means." I looked it up.
So, now I see that the Lacie needs a 31khz signal, but my DC VGA box buddy is only outputting 15khz. That's probably why that other LCD TV mentioned earlier, was screaming "Not support!" at me because it only reads a 31khz VGA signal, right? Then I checked the info on my projector while the DC was plugged in and it read "15khz" as the vertical refresh rate. There was my pudding.
Did some internet research that did nothing but give me harebrained ideas and a wasted drive to Radio Shack...but got some good BBQ on the way back.
Now after reading a bunch more, I see that most people are actually trying to get the DC VGA box to output 15khz through mods and what not while I have the opposite problem of trying to output 31khz. According to my 6-hour old knowledge of electricity and such, pins 6 & 7 in the box must be "grounded". Well, I popped that sucker open and there were no parties or horsing around going on - everything was in perfect order.
Now I hear about this one sucker called the Hanzo which seems to be like a dream come true for a poor, downtrodden retro feller like meself. But I know its gonna cost me, and I'll be halfway through Moby Dick before I can buy one, and I want to play Shenmue...NOW!
Anyways, I assume the issue they have is the same as mine: the cable only supports one frequency while their television only reads another, correct?
I may decide to sell it to raise cash for the Hanzo, but wanted to check a few places first.
Thanks!
