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How to use SCART for our hobby
apfelanni:
todays test subject : philips 25pt4513 02 , chassis md1.2 , mf date around 1998-99.
pro : good picture , nice colors , sharpness and geometry ,a solid chassis ( and tube, the philips eak may be the best european lowres tubes u can get ) , displays nearly any resolution of the hacked catalyst pack .
cons : massive 2 part + breakout pcbs chassis , servicemode accessible via service remote or shorting 2 servicepins on the chassis ( grundig is more the idiotproof osd type and contains smaller , but maybe cheaper chassis ) . shots taken with 49 euro cam , so they are not 100 % accurate :)
Paradroid:
Damn that looks good! Thanks for the report! Those images look fantastic. Great colors and the focus seems to go all the way to the edges. Very nice!
I wish that I could find a Phillips like that... Australians have heaps of Sonys and Phillips going in the trash but most are the yellow/red/white RCA variety with no SCART ports. :(
apfelanni:
today i did some more testing with the nokia test program . i noticed there are a few lines on the top missing . i only did some rough testing ingame mame yesterday and idiot me screwed the tv back together , so i cant reach the service pins anymore. i was afraid the tube getting necked . next time i de-torx the case its gonna end up replacing the samsung weiya in my ok baby cab . i also ordered a substitute tv dealer service remote for 20 euro . for the original philips remote they ask around 100 euro , so that wasnt an option . i tried to take a snap of the windows interlaced desktop , but realized the cam shows some missing lines the eye wont even notice. but i would say the interlaced 640x480 output is sharper than most of the cheap china brand naomi vga screens i had running in progressive mode ( not to mention theire geometry faults) . the used mamescart cable isnt of the best quality . i took a cable of a broken pc monitor , twisted the sync and bridged pin 20 to 16 for rgb toggle. all my better cables are cabbed or given to friends with zero soldering skills . i hope the mamescart cable soldering is soon coming to an end and the slg engineering crew is presenting a pcb for plug and play. i would prefer to spend the saved time playing my cabs than inhaling lead nebula ..
Zebidee:
@apfelanni
Those screenshots look great! Very nice.
Calamity:
@apfelanni,
If you're using the modded ATI drivers, try recalculating the modelines increasing the vertical back porch, that might solve your missing lines at the top issue.