Pinnacle of Tube television for old games playing

You can't go wrong with a PVM. One suggestion though; if you're gonna get a PVM, try to get a relatively new one. Even the really old ones are still good, but ones from the late 90s onwards had a much sharper, brighter picture.

 

Not to go off topic too much but my place is err??? God knows with the stupid Japanese LDK system. Let's just say that upstairs it has 3 bed rooms and my games room plus toilet. Downstairs there's a livingroom, kitchen, tatami room, toilet, wash room leading on to the bathroom. Take a look at this page to get an idea of the house size from the neighbours places - http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4761&page=73

Yakumo

 

My monitor came today.

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If only I had my ton of money and my own mansion.. I'd be snatching these left and right.

 

Nice, a classic Amiga monitor. I used to use one of them back in the day for Mega Drive gaming until I got a quality TV.

 

Nice. Makes me wish I had Radiant Silvergun.

 

It's crack in Shmup form

 

Made a quick vid to show the image quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkLDR9rxmq8&feature=channel_video_title

Watch @ 720p.

 

Nice. Swap tricking it, I see. How big is that monitor? Looks like it'd be easily tate-able.

 

Nice video, wish I had a model 1

 

It's only a 13" screen, so yes! :thumbsup:

 

That is nice, yep! The 1081 had a RGB SCART connector on the back, didn't it? I wish my 1085S-D2 had one; that's only got a 9-pin D-SUB one for RGB plus composite inputs on there.

 

Yup! direct SCART. You have an adaptor for your 1085S-D2?

 

Nope, sadly not, but it's possible to wire one up then? If so, I guess I'll look up the pinouts and so on and ask a mate to solder one together (because I'm not good with that stuff at all~)

 

It is possible, you may need a sync splitter though.

I just tated my Commodore and wow..

 

I live in a mansion. No, really, I do.

 

PVM-2730QM Gotchas.

Well I'm finally a member of the Sony PVM Club. Won a PVM-2730QM on Ebay for $21. Freight for it cost $120. I saw it on Ebay with only 30 mins remaining so I had to think quick and had no real time for research. Because I bought this fairly uneducated and inexperienced I would like to point out a few things for the other newbies that I had difficulty with or was surprised with regarding this model.

You get very few inputs. Basically you get 1x SCART, and 2x Composite. Not normal composite by the way, the older BNC connector. So if you want to use the more modern RCA connector that every game console seems to use you will need a little $2 RCA to BNC adapter. I believe this model is suposed to have S-Video (it is pictured in the booklet that came with the monitor) but mine is lacking it completely. It also has two essentially useless inputs. 9 Pin RGB and VTR both of which aren't suitable for gaming.

Because Composite video quality is fairly poor you are only left with the option of SCART. A scart connector can carry many different signal types but of course you want the best which is RGB scart. Because scart is not common here, my receiver does not support it and only has HDMI and Component out so I was planning to use a Component to scart adapter. I bought this $10 adapter on ebay.



And it is completely WORTHLESS. After doing some proper research that I should have done before buying it, it turns out you cannot do the colorspace conversion necessary with just a cheap little adapter. You need a transcoder which is far more that just a cable or adapter and far more expensive. Can someone explain why they even sell this shit?



I find the picture quality hard to explain with words. Pictured is just composite image, I couldn't get a real nice photo. It certainly does have a different look to a regular consumer television. This model also includes 2x 15 watt speakers which are not pictured (I took mine off as I run the sound through my receiver). But for TV speakers they are actually pretty decent, better than what comes with 95% of TV's these days. There are also knobs on the back which can be used to adjust bass and treble.

Im currently waiting on Xbox and PS2 scart cables to arrive. Hopefully they will display a more stable and sharp picture. The moral of the story is buy a PVM or even better BVM, but do your research first:nod:

 

All you need to do is get some SCART cables. Then you'll get true RGB.

 

The US models don't have Scart. Get a 25-pin DIN connector and hack up a 25-pin DIN to 21-pin RGB (if you have J-consoles) and a Euro Scart if you have Euro consoles. Then just by the corresponding cables... usually 1st party. Bob's your uncle.

There's a REALLY old thread started by me in Off Topic about these things and is a decent source... there are better if you search, I'm sure, but that's one to start.

 

US models of the consoles, you mean? There's no need to hack anything, the other end of the SCART cable for PS2 and Xbox is a normal connector for those systems.