IPS retro styled monitor

[IronGiant]

Stumbled across this today and thought it would be of interest to some here. It's a Kickstarter for a retro styled IPS monitor with a plethora of potential inputs, here's the page on it:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ch ... w-systems/

and also a YouTube vid which has a lot more info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKQhCGUHWc

The Kickstarter's goal needs to be reached by 18th of this month (8 PM UK time).

Anyhow, hope it's not deemed 'off topic' or spammy, just looked pretty nice to me and wanted to make others aware as it will fall into the field of interest for many here.

[Lander]

Conceptually it's cute, but the chassis bulk, built-in speakers and color palette aren't the aspects of a CRT I'd seek to replicate. Why trade off all that only be stuck with a 19in LCD?

I suppose you could fit a low-latency HDR panel to claw back some of the advantages, but I'd want to go all the way if I were committing to maintaining an old micro or similar real-hardware retro setup.

I do like the modularity for input and panel choice though, that gives it far more long-term legs than locking the user to fixed hardware.

[fernan1234]

I suppose you could fit a low-latency HDR panel to claw back some of the advantages

Yep, at this point IMO a proper HDR display is essential for acceptable CRT simulation. And not talking about so-called HDR support with ~400 nits max, but at least 1000 nits sustained full screen to be able to make full scanlines and BFI not become a hard tradeoff.

[orange808]

Someone will like it. Should be durable. If you don't know what the display output or chassis should look like, it should be satisfying. I'm sure this will fine for hipster millennials looking for a something durable and easy.

Good durability and less eye strain than a CRT, but I would never ever go back to Amiga for anything work/productivity related, so these are very tardy. Would have been great back in the day for work.

[spmbx]

Props to them for clearly describing this is in no way supposed to replicate the look of a crt picture itself. The base thing doesnt even include a panel, thats up to you.

[IronGiant]

They made the goal so that's great news.

[Lander]

Yep, at this point IMO a proper HDR display is essential for acceptable CRT simulation. And not talking about so-called HDR support with ~400 nits max, but at least 1000 nits sustained full screen to be able to make full scanlines and BFI not become a hard tradeoff.

So far I've gotten by with 4K SDR crt-royale - my monitor is only 400nit, but the state of color management on linux is such a mess right now that I couldn't leverage that anyway

Hoping we'll see a full HDR Gigabyte M32U equivalent and properly hammered-out software side within five-ish years, if not sooner.

[IronGiant]

Additional bit of info - there's now a £100 'Festive Placeholder Deposit' pledge option (this was added because of the time of year and people being a bit stretched on the financial front).

[Dochartaigh]

I'm all sorts of confused about this. I like that it's going to have a built-in scaler for 15khz (and/or supplemented? by the modules on the back you can put a GBS-C into or whatnot?)... but that's about it. Also, did I miss it? He never seems to mention the resolution of the panel itself? (LOTS to read though, but searching for "resolution" and "Pixels" comes up with no hits...)

I also hate the aspect ratio. Every single CRT I've ever owned from arcade cabs, to consumer sets (back to mid-80's), BVM and PVM's, presentation monitors, video wall monitors, PC CRT monitors... every single one I've owned (probably 150ish) was 4:3 ratio... He seems to justify that by talking about really old PAL stuff? Which with a quick google seems that the BBC switched to 4:3 ALL the way back in 1950!!!

Honestly, if I was ever to buy a brand-new 4:3ish ratio set, I would buy this bad boy, turn it sideways and emulate (emulate because I don't think any scaler for consoles can get close to 2880 x 2560).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XT ... X0DER&th=1

[Taiyaki]

Great project. Would have loved a high resolution panel that could simulate low res pixels through video options like how the Analog Pocket does for Gameboy and Gamegear games.

[ldeveraux]

I would do this if I had any confidence in Kickstarter, which I haven't in many years. Oh well.