Re: Market improving for monitors?

2018-12-07 Thread Ethan via cctalk
10ms-30ms of latency in most cases. One frame time at 60fps is 16ms, so if you wait for each picture to be completely scanned in over HDMI before you start scanning it out to the glass then that's going to set your minimum latency. And obviously if the input frame rate is less than 60fps it's

Re: Market improving for monitors?

2018-12-07 Thread Phil Blundell via cctalk
On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > Does a plain LCD panel have delay?  If not, what about a TV used as a > monitor? Depends what you mean by a "plain LCD panel". If you mean the glass itself, no, they generally scan synchronously to the input signal and don't have

Re: Market improving for monitors?

2018-12-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Dec 7, 2018, at 2:06 PM, Ethan via cctalk wrote: > >> On a recent Reddit thread someone claimed that old PC monitors >> and tube TVs are rising in popularity and price due to retro gamers. >> Is this true? > > SOME TVs. Not every TV. The gamers want the pro broadcast video monitors that

Re: Market improving for monitors?

2018-12-07 Thread Ethan via cctalk
If you want to avoid shipping you see if there's a vintage arcade game group in your area and see what they are looking for. Most people seem to be replacing tubes with equivalent size panels, though. BLASPHEMY! N! There are no LCDs that are 4:3 above 21". Not 25", not 27/29" models. The

Re: Market improving for monitors?

2018-12-07 Thread Ethan via cctalk
On a recent Reddit thread someone claimed that old PC monitors and tube TVs are rising in popularity and price due to retro gamers. Is this true? SOME TVs. Not every TV. The gamers want the pro broadcast video monitors that have RGB inputs. Sony PVM and the like. Search ebay for Sony PVM RGB

Re: Market improving for monitors?

2018-12-07 Thread Eric Korpela via cctalk
If you want to avoid shipping you see if there's a vintage arcade game group in your area and see what they are looking for. Most people seem to be replacing tubes with equivalent size panels, though. On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 10:01 AM John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > On a recent Reddit thread

Re: Market improving for monitors?

2018-12-07 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
then theres those of us that take old tvs and make walls of tvs to display games or animations at parties and such On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:01 PM John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > On a recent Reddit thread someone claimed that old PC monitors > and tube TVs are rising in popularity and price