Hi folks, So, my 'new' monitor arrives today, beautifully packed and I wasted no time in testing all ports; should've brought home the monitor tester I have at work since it can generate Weird Frequencies, in fact I'll take the screen in tomorrow and hook it up.
Anyhoo, all good apart from s-video which I can't test without something that outputs s-video. I know the Commodore 64 does but I haven't made up a cable for that yet, another thing on the TUIT list. Composite tested courtesy of an original Playstation and Raspberry Pi. Then I remembered that I've composite modded a Sinclair Spectrum and a ZX81 and I get no picture at all with those, like the signal is too weak for the monitor to pick up. Said pair of machines work fine on my 2008-era LCD TV though so does anyone know what the difference might be? Just because I could I hooked the Spectrum up to an Apple ][ Monitor and that works fine - http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/IMG_8839.JPG Are there variations to the PAL Composite standard? -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection? ------ Forwarded Message From: Adrian Graham <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 22:52:48 +0100 To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Conversation: Best LCDs for retrocomputing - Was: Re: New *square* 1:1 26.5" LCD monitor 1920x1920 Subject: Re: Best LCDs for retrocomputing - Was: Re: New *square* 1:1 26.5" LCD monitor 1920x1920 On 16/05/2016 20:13, "Ian Finder" <[email protected]> wrote: > I dunno if it's relevant or not, but my go-to LCD for retro stuff is the > Dell 2007FP- > There was a panel lottery, some are TN, some IPS. Both are solid. > > They are 4:3, 1600x1200 native. > > They have DVI, VGA, Composite and S-Video inputs, and very stellar scalers. In fact there was one available for ukp35 so it's now mine. I remember these monitors from a few years ago at a customer that specialised in video for aeroplanes, I used one not quite daily but remember being irked at the time that it was several button presses needed to get from VGA to DVI input, hahaha. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection? ------ End of Forwarded Message
