View Full Version : Analog RGB lcd?
guitargary75
10-15-2008, 09:23 PM
I was looking around Best Buy the other day and I saw a LCD monitor that said it had Analog RGB input. The question is, will this work with my modded SNES? I currently use a commodore monitor, but this would be great if it would work. Any thoughts?
mario2butts
10-15-2008, 11:04 PM
Probably not, as pretty much any modern computer monitor can't accept anything lower than a 31khz signal through its VGA input, and your SNES is outputting 15khz. You'd have to use an upscan converter like one of Micomsoft's XRGB units to make it work.
staxx
10-16-2008, 12:56 AM
I have a Samsung SyncMaster 940 MW that has a RGB connector thru SCART. This LCD monitor can accept RGB at 15 khz through the Scart socket. You may wanna list the model then we can easily find out. Though as in a very old thread of mine, LCD gaming for retro consoles don't look all that great though I have yet to try plasma.
GaijinPunch
10-16-2008, 06:13 AM
It can accept 15khz, but upscales it (hence, the nasty picture).
CosmicMonkey
10-16-2008, 06:50 AM
Even if it does accept 15KHz, the picture will be upscaled. Hence it'll look shit and be full of lag. This goes for all LCD/Plasma tellys. The inbuilt scalers are crap and most won't even see a 240p signal. If they do, it'll be treated as 480i.
Basically, if you want to play old school games on new tellys with no lag and an amazing picture, you'll be needing a DVDO EDGE from Anchor Bay Tech. And a spare $800 to pay for it.
Mayhem
10-16-2008, 09:41 AM
Ah thanks for that, I had been wondering why my US SNES lagged so much through RGB on my LCD here. Back to the CRT then!
GaijinPunch
10-16-2008, 08:21 PM
The inbuilt scalers are crap
True. The scalers in the hardware (PS2, for example) are far better. Probably why so many games were shipped w/ 480i... to accomodate new hardware.
and most won't even see a 240p signal.
Any consumer product will see it. But as you stated, it will be upscaled.
Basically, if you want to play old school games on new tellys with no lag and an amazing picture, you'll be needing a DVDO EDGE from Anchor Bay Tech. And a spare $800 to pay for it.
If you're going to dish out that kind of dough, just get an RGB CRT. Yeah, theyr'e big. But nobody here seems to be afriad of having large, bulky, woman-repellant items.