Low-Res LCD Tv/Monitor

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JigsawMan
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Low-Res LCD Tv/Monitor

Post by JigsawMan »

Hi,

What do you think this would look like for PCB gaming?
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/sea ... pNo=201332

It is a 20" LCD TV, 6ms Response time at 640x480 res. do you think that will still give a rather awful blocky look compared to my CRT? Since the baby came along I am trying to take up as little space as possible.

Thx.
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Post by Dave_K. »

There is really now way to know for sure how this LCD is going to accept odd sync rates from a PCB. Some game may work, others may show no picture at all. I see in the specs it has SCART input, but doesn't say if that is via RGB pins or just S-Vid/Composite pins. So you may need an RGB to S-Vid converter like the jrok. The picture will most likely look like crap using the internal 640x480 upscaler...so you'd be better off with something like an XRGB2 to convert and upscale to VGA. Even then, some people have weird LCD's that didn't display a picture if the sync wasn't exactly 60hz.
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http://www.niemandisplays.com/nieman_vi ... ys_010.htm

these guys sell industrial LCD's....if i recall they have a 19in 4:3 that does 15khz low res

very expensive tho....like $1000 iirc
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