Adding an RGB input to a cheap generic NTSC TV

Have you guys seen this?

http://133fsb.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/adding-an-rgb-input-to-a-cheap-generic-ntsc-tv/#more-123

 

I found that very interesting, thanks.

 

That is very awesome... but I'd just pay for someone to do it for me... as per Assembler...electrocution. It's so not me.

 

Very useful if you ve got someone who's been into CRT servicing etc, but for the average Joe it's death by a great many volts.

 

The whole death thing aside, it seems like a lot of work to do to get RGB displaying on a cheapo 14" Chinese CRT that precisely no one would use as their gaming TV. The guy's definitely got skill though.

 

Well, I think the point would be to put it in a nice 25" - 29" machine. But hey, I've been lving in relatively small places for years, so I won't knock on anyone trying to save space.

 

That is a dream come true for us stuck in shitty NTSC land. That guy really does have some good skill. Adding that mod to a nice 24 inch screen would be fantastic for retro gaming.

 

What are you talking about, dude? You may be a few thousand kilometers away from your home empire, but there are quite a few 15khz RGB solutions in Japan... Most of them are cheap as well. I've had 3 different RGB monitors over 25"... ranging from 9,000 to 83,000 (the last one was a new, never-used arcade monitor stuck in a well-constructed boss, so I had to pay up).

 

LOL kind of ironic that everyones after rgb tv's as i couldn't even give my old 14" sony trinitron crt away & that had wonderful rgb as standard. In the end i threw it out as it was taking up too much space.

 

we're a minority.

Gamers are a niche in TVs, and use who want crts are a small fraction.

 

Any good links for a quality cheap RGB (21pin in) monitor or TV ? The ones on Yahoo are always broken in one way or another or in really bad shape.

 

I'm already hoarding RGB monitors for when I don't live in Europe any more. So far I got 2x 14" RGB monitors, 1x 27" Sony studio CRT (pvm) and 1x Sony Trinitron 25" or so. America must be living hell for RGB fans lol.

But a cheapo 14" RGB monitor can't be that expensive to import. I use it all the time for my Saturn and Mega Drive, brilliant picture and comfortably big if you're sitting right in front of it (like a PC screen, or an arcade machine).

 

I live in the US. I wanted RGB. I bought a Sony PVM (19") for 80$ including shipping. It sure was hard with all the mouse clicking involved. Seriously the hardest thing was lifting the son of a bitch and getting it out of the foam encasing it in the shipping box. The monitor weighs like 90lbs or so, and its bulky. Though on the bright side it has handles on each side.

I will say that I like the idea of a consumer TV having RGB input. But it's not just having the RGB input you want, but you also want a high quality picture tube. I haven't spent a long time looking at various CRTs to try to compare but I'm sure some are better than others. It just really is a shame, that even now no one bothers making a good quality CRT with all the inputs you'd want, including SCART RGB.

 

LG's CRT HD line is probably as close as you'll get. Mine has every input you can think of there's even a vga in for something though there's no way to get to it through the menus.

 

No one makes CRTs anymore fullstop...

You could probably go to a hard off and get a good Sony 26" Trinitron TV with a "Game" port for about 9000yen or so. I could go to at least a dozen stores near where I was and find them in at least a third of them easily.

As the guy says, a lot of TVs do not have isolation transformers in them so if you do this wrong then you risk sending high voltage into your console and watching bits of it explode...

 

@ASSEMbler: The ones that go for $80 or less tend to be small, and the shipping is still really expensive. I was lucky enough to get a 12" PVM for about $30, and the seller was close enough that I was able to do a local pickup. I think I was rather lucky, though. Mine isn't in perfect shape (glass is missing and there's a small scratch on the screen) and it's pretty small, but for occasionally playing arcade games it's works fine.

@Mottzilla: $80 for a 19" PVM including shipping sounds like a really good deal to me.

@GodofHardcore: How does lower-resolution stuff (like Genesis, SNES, etc.) look on it? Is it upscaled or is it displayed in its native resolution? I have Daewoo 27" CRT TV that's pretty nice. It doesn't have RGB, unfortunately, but it does have component and s-video. The picture on it is pretty good - the best I've seen on a CRT. It's also flat, instead of curved.

 

What about importing one from Europe?

 

You'll pay more for the postage than the set is worth.