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subcriminal:

Is it hard to find a TV with a SCART socket in the States? It's the best method to turn a TV into an arcade monitor if you can get hold of one. You just wire a VGA cable to a SCART plug and plug it into an ArcadeVGA card.

rubberpoultry:

Until I started visiting this board I'd never heard of SCART. I don't think that's common here at all.

I bought a Radeon 9600 and a DVI to component dongle to go in that way. I've read all sorts of posts about scaling and overscan issues. That's why I'm unsure on which TV to buy. A lot of posts with solutions to the overscan problem are using TVs no longer on the market.

TOK:


--- Quote from: subcriminal on December 04, 2006, 12:27:58 pm ---Is it hard to find a TV with a SCART socket in the States? It's the best method to turn a TV into an arcade monitor if you can get hold of one. You just wire a VGA cable to a SCART plug and plug it into an ArcadeVGA card.

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Since it originated in France, its our duty as Americans to reject SCART whether its good or not.  >:D

Just kidding.

The US is a hodge-podge of assorted inputs, but DVI and HDMI are pretty much becoming the standard. The thing is, everyone is going to flat panel monitors so CRTs aren't really getting much limelight so they're saddled with component inputs at best. They work and produce a good image, it's just more work to get them going.


TOK:


--- Quote from: rubberpoultry on December 04, 2006, 12:34:50 pm ---Until I started visiting this board I'd never heard of SCART. I don't think that's common here at all.

I bought a Radeon 9600 and a DVI to component dongle to go in that way. I've read all sorts of posts about scaling and overscan issues. That's why I'm unsure on which TV to buy. A lot of posts with solutions to the overscan problem are using TVs no longer on the market.

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I don't think any TV you buy is going to make it easier. Component inputs in general don't scale right to 640x480 regardless of the type or age of the TV. You're just going to need some tool to set your resolution to avoid the overscan/cropping. Since you're using the ATI card, I can tell you for a fact that the MaLa front end supports inputting custom resolutions and the ATI can handle them. Set your display in MaLa to 640x432 and you won't need any other helper apps or configuring.

Other front ends may also be capable of this, but I've only done it with MaLa.


subcriminal:


--- Quote ---They work and produce a good image
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TFT's? For reading the interweb maybe but destroy arcade game emulation.

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