Rotatable Monitor for Consoles?

Halloween Jack · Post by **Halloween Jack** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:46 pm

Hi Guys,

Having read the other posts around Tate mode for PC based hardware and graphics cards, I'm yet to spot any information on rotatable monitors for consoles.

Does anyone know of a rotatable monitor with RGB SCART, AV and S-Video input?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Halloween Jack

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:02 pm

A regular TV works just fine. For RGB goodness, I think the majority of people here (excluding those in Europe of course) use Commodore 1084s's or 1080's. And then there are always the monitors in cabs.

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:28 pm

mannerbot wrote:For RGB goodness, I think the majority of people here (excluding those in Europe of course) use Commodore 1084s's or 1080's.

Now now, make no hasty judgements.

I have a Philips CM8533 as a dedicated TATE monitor and I know few other of our european members have 1084's doing the same thing.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:04 pm

I'm using a Commodore 1702, was previously on a borrowed 1701.
No RGB input on either of them, but the S-video is still lovely!

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:50 pm

I'm using a Dell 2405FPW 24" widescreen TFT monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200 and component, composite, vga, dvi-d and s-vhs input for my vertical shmupping. Had to buy an extra wallmount to get it to rotate the right way though.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:40 pm

Don't the games look like poop on the 2405FPW?

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:51 pm

No I can't say they do, the monitor has very good interpolarisation or whatever it's called.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:39 am

Would it be too much trouble for you to take a picture? I'd like to see it if the picture's actually halfway decent; I tried connecting a GameCube to my 2001FP and it looked atrocious (I used the composite cables, but there's no way S-video could have saved the picture).

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:10 am

I'll try and borrow a camera and take some pics.
It could take a few days though but I will post them here when I got them.

Halloween Jack · Post by **Halloween Jack** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:44 pm

Thanks for your views guys. Looking forward to seeing MichaelM's piccies.

Cheers
Halloween Jack

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:50 pm

I made a little site to host the pics.
You can find them here :

http://members.home.nl/thingstodo/

I took the ingame pictures while the game was in motion so it looks a little bit washy but it should give you an idea of how it looks.

I'm completely happy with it.
Actually this is also my first time having a display I can use to play vertical shmups. In the past I only played yoko style so only that fact is for me a big plus even if the image quality isn't as perfect as can be.

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:12 am

Yes, they are fairly common.

The Blast City monitor. 29" CRT 15kHz (RGB) to 31kHz (VGA) (auto switch), 110V power, fully rotatable. Too bad they only accept RGB and VGA.

It should suit all your gamming needs, you can connect your MegaDrive, PC-Engine, Saturn, DreamCast, PS1, PS2, GameCube, X-Box, JAMMA boards and Personal Computer to it.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:36 am

Yeah, it looks pretty much like what I'd expect it to. Still, great monitor.

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:26 pm

mannerbot wrote:Yeah, it looks pretty much like what I'd expect it to. Still, great monitor.

So you think it looks like poop or better ?

Halloween Jack · Post by **Halloween Jack** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:15 pm

Looks really impressive MichaelM, thanks very much for sharing the images with us.

Halloween Jack

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:07 pm

Haha well the pictures aren't that high resolution, but they appear to be leaning towards the poop side. But the 2405FPW is still a nice monitor.

I'd imagine the XBox doesn't look too shabby on it though.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:07 pm

Michaelm wrote:I'm using a Dell 2405FPW 24" widescreen TFT monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200 and component, composite, vga, dvi-d and s-vhs input for my vertical shmupping. Had to buy an extra wallmount to get it to rotate the right way though.

So you don't notice that the games are slightly squished because of the widescreen format? When rotated your monitor is now 9:16 aspect ratio, and these games were developed for 3:4 aspect ratio.

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:14 pm

@mannerbot: If you click on the pics you get bigger ones. Then click on them again to make them "unfit" the screen.

@Dave_K.: Well I do notice that it isn't exactly the right resolution but I still think it looks nice enough. Maybe the fact that I have never seen those games for real on a real monitor helps me liking it ?

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:19 pm

Yep, I know that you can click on the thumbnails to get bigger pictures. Garegga looks about as bad as I could have imagined, sadly. And Iky is most definitely best viewed on a CRT.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:20 pm

Although, playing pixelated games in tate is always better than yoko.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:27 am

Finally took my 1702 home.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/i ... 051007.jpg
This is fed in through S-video, although the photo wasn't taken with the TV as the main focus.

Really, Commodore monitors give great picture quality and construction that can't be matched by anything else in the price range (i.e. dirt cheap)

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:33 am

iatneH wrote:Really, Commodore monitors give great picture quality and construction that can't be matched by anything else in the price range (i.e. dirt cheap)

Agreed.

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:57 pm

Damnit guys, you make me spend money