PSOne LCD

[Howard]

These are selling for ~£40 on eBay and I've seen on Bit Tech people hvae modded these into cases....

It's SERIOUSLY tempting... Considering it takes normal VGA or Composite video!!

Anyone actually done this?

Any opinions or comments on the idea?

[Clstrphbc_donut]

i got a comment, if you pull it off, tell me how i want one too!

[da_ging]

ive followed the stuff over at bit-tech aswell and its a tempting mod although i would only use the composite as i doubt i could be bothered to mess around wiring up the vga

ive also noticed the there are some sub £50 gamecube screens which may be better quality but i dont know owt about connecting them up ,may be worth looking at them also

[Theo]

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59230

£50 inc on ebuyer if you've got a shiny free delivery token. Would probably work out to a similar price if you add the auctioners P&P.

I considered doing it myself, but I can't be bothered at the moment. I don't really need one, tbh.

They're nice, though.

[da_ging]

£50 inc on ebuyer

they were £35 then some ppl bought them probably all bit-tech'ers and then they put the price up

[Theo]

Yeah, I got the link from Bit-tech too.. original price was £40 inc, iirc

-edit: I tell a lie, it was £35

[Knoxville]

Nice idea, would be good for putting on the front of a shuttle and watching divx's through off my composite output, hmmmmmmm if only i'd got the cash..........

[Moby-Dick]

seen a couple of car pc's using these

[SilentDeath]

£37.50 in game if you know someone that works there
Heres mine:

and it does look a LOT better in real life. ffs the crappy webcam has even made the sides look curved!
Problem is while its VGA compatable, the refresh rate and timings are far too low for windows, so you HAVE to run powerstrip to set up the screen. Needs to be ran eaach time you start pc, but once set you can exit and hte screen will stay.
fonts below 12 get hard to read. My winamp playlist is hard to erad, but i can ust make out each track name, but thats about the smallest font you want to use.

Composite video gives crappy quality, so im told. I cba to test it because it only has the crappy 3.5mm socket not the standard RCA socket which composite usually uses.

[Applecrusher]

so what cord does this connect to the PC with???
A pic will help my understanding....

[SilentDeath]

VGA. Well not a cord as such, you need to do some soldering.
You only need to solder the RGB, CSYNC, RGB ground and a few other pins. Also you need 3x75ohm resistors or the graphics card wont detect the monitor (not needed with single output cards).
Nvidia cards also need a CSYNC generator becuase it only outputs H and V syncs... Power is from the 7.5v brick or you can build a regulator circuit to get it from your psu.

The MAIN problem with this is that windows has crappy suppport for multiple displays, for example playing cs on one moves everything thats on the other halfway back onto the main one, ontop of cs, making it hard to play

[daz_uk30]

ive got a pcone screen in the front of my case, its plugged into the TV-out on my gfx card using an S-video to composite adaptor that came with the gfx card, easy and it works great !

[da_ging]

u got any pics daz_uk30 that show off the image quality? whats the lowest font size you can read with it on composite?

[daz_uk30]

ill try & get some tomorrow

*edit* im using the screen with samurize at the minute with fonts set quite large, TV & winamp visuals look fine too

[SilentDeath]

VGA is very easy to mod (if any one wants one modded to vga with alu bezel I could do it quite easly)
Composite has much worse quality i found on mine, with VGA 12 is the best/lowest font, but down to 8 is readable. I think i could get better if I played with timings more.

In my pic above the winamp playlist is readable (but a bit too small for my liking), and you can see how small the text is there

[daz_uk30]

ok heres some pics using composite, sorry they are crap but i cant seem to get a decent pic without those weird grip lines appearing, the screen really does look much better