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What a deal on a secondary lcd display!!!
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Circo:
I thought "composite video ready" meant that it would have a hookup built in.... The data sheet doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me  nor did I look at it all that closely.:dizzy:.  I just read the description, looked at the price and said buy buy buy! 

Does that mean that it will be just as easy "hard" to hook this straight into vga as it would composite?  If so that may even work out better in the long run as I would be able to get the most out of the 640x480 resolution.

arcadepcnut:
now I know why its 40$.
Looks like there is no inverter. Its a screen and only a screen. I could be wrong but is not a lcd monitor without an inverter is just an lcd panel like it is described.
Its like a arcade monitor tube with no board. You will have to match a specific inverter to power this thing.

FWIW. Last Dell laptop I repaired, that went white screen, the LCD inverter was almost as much as the entire screen. I bought the entire screen with inverter and the whole laptop lcd exterior caseing as well. Two screws and a plug and they were back going.
this might be a headache. Anyways report back for us.
richms:
Well, since its a cold cathode backlight, try an inverter for a case-mod CCFL light perhaps? Authough those inverters are prone to blowing up.
shardian:
There is an led modification for the ps1 lcd. It may be applicable to this lcd.

And for the record, the ps1 lcd is a 5" diagonal screen with approx. 320x240 resolution. Overall though, the sony ps1 screen is a very durable and high quality screen. I swear you could run it over with your car and it would still work. I have dropped mine several times, and even fried it once. Luckily, there is a fuse to bypass and it was good as new.

For what you are planning to do, I would recommend the ps1 lcd, if you can find one anymore. They are getting hard to find...good thing I have one up for sale... >:D
Lilwolf:
Couldn't you use a card with TV out to this pretty easy though? 

I'm still hoping that secondary LCD's become standard in (some) cabinets... Mainly because I would love to see some good frontends working entirely through a secondary screen...  Like have a game always running... but you can select the next game... then hit launch and it will terminate the current game, and start running the next... I think it would be great!  Especially if you could get mp3 controls in it... so you can select a song to play without quiting the game.
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