Sony PVM Series Monitor Questions..

[mike boss]

Something tells me you guys are %100 on the money with respects to trying the RGB connection. However myself I would have no idea as to who to fabricate this cable.
I will however see if I can locally source it and give it a shot.

Im happy with the image I get now,but I know its way lacking.

[mike boss]

I just wanted to add I appreciate all the input and advice you guys gave me.
I thank you all very much.
I'm very much new to this hobby and often find I second guess myself.
Its a major reason as to why some of my projects have stalled, however Im forever gaining confidence in this hobby. My PVM monitor was an example of that. On the norm I would have never opened it up. But upon doing so I was able to use some logic and figure out a possible resolution. It would not have been without the help of you guys and the reassurance I found. So again thanks. I really like being involved in a community of people with like interests.

[Ummon]

Hacking a cable is basically doing what the manufacturers do in the first place: they solder wires to a connector interface. In this case you get a DB25 that fits the jack on your monitor; leaving a little slack on the connector side, you cut the DB15 off one side of a VGA cable; you open up that side to see the wiring connections and match that with a VGA pinout you find online; then you solder the corresponding wires of the cable to the DB25 connector per the instructions in my thread linked by Zebidee.

[mike boss]

I'd love to see how good these cables could look, I can tell that the s-video is not providing me with the optimum picture. BUT BUT BUT I won't complain, its playable. That onto itself is massive.

MAME is done as I noted prior : http://www.mymissiontomame.blogspot.com/ (THANKS!)
I will at some point see if locally someone can help me with these cables.
But for now I'll settle with the s-video.

[Zebidee]

Why not ask Ummon to do the cable for you? He has the experience now. I'm sure that you guys could come to some mutually acceptable arrangement.

[Jack Burton]

If you're uncomfortable soldering a cable to a db25 connector this may be a good alternative:

http://cgi.ebay.com/DB25-Female-Signals-Breakout-Board-parallel-port_W0QQitemZ300351882760QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45ee5e0608

combined with one of these:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10212&cs_id=1021201&p_id=1591&seq=1&format=2
You won't have to buy it from monoprice.  You can probably go to your local used computer parts store and pick one up for a dollar or so.

[Ummon]

That's a damn good idea, Jack.



<later>

....wait a minute. If you're gonna chop a cable an all, you might as well solder it. But at the very least, I doubt that PCB unit is heavy enough to worry about needing to relieve any physical stress on the monitor input.