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Connecting PS2 To Hantarex Polo 33" Monitor

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MonMotha:
Well, if you want 100% plug and play, then yeah, that converter should work.  It's totally unnecessary in terms of function, but it'll work.  You could use it on other consoles, too.  My only concern would be that the conversion appears to be digital.  It may lag.  It's also almost guaranteed to use 4:2:2, which results in a (normally unnoticed) blurring of the color (but not brightness) information.

Beware the cost of Uniarcade.  Paying them is quite a hassle (you can either wire them money or use Western Union - neither is free), and shipping is high since it's coming from China.  Decent folks otherwise, though.  Quality is highly variable on some products.  They also messed up one of my orders and would not correct it, leaving me with about $100 worth of useless merchandise.

Japedo:
Thanks for the input, I would rather use a tried and true method than use something that "might" work "okay."  The goal is for it to work properly, no lag and looks great.  Cost and work are secondary, I would rather put in the extra wiring work or purchase the more expensive component if it is going to work better. 

As a heads up I was going to use hacked controllers (probably purchase from Haruman) for the encoding.  Wire up to the control panel using molex connectors, so I could "quick disconnect" to switch from jamma to the PS2.  I was going to do the same molex connector "quick disconnect" idea at the output of the jamma harness that goes to the video signal.

After doing a bit more research, I found this monitor/speaker adapter from Ultrimarc

http://www.ultimarc.com/psx.html
You have to scroll down a little



Also this Jpac adapter


Does anyone have feedback on these items.

Thanks again for the help

brad808:
+1 on what MonMotha said.

I've connected ps2 to my old driving cab monitor using this. Dead simple to make and super cheap. Worked great.

http://pc2jamma.mameworld.info/images/vidcirc.gif

SNAAKE:
oh totally forgot about ultimarc. u should get that instead.

I used the xbox version with an arcade monitor before and it looked great. didn't notice any lag. CRT monitors aren't supposed to lag either way.

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