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Scored a free 32" Trinitron, need help getting PC display to it!
RyoriNoTetsujin:
Hey folks,
Ok, so it's been a long while since I dealt with analog anything, but I couldn't let this slip by! ;D
A guy in my neighborhood gave away this 32" Sony Trinitron XBR (Model:KV32XBR200) for free because he was moving and didn't want to deal with it. Can't say I blame him, damn thing weighs 175 lbs. As y'all know, I don't have a lot of space myself, but the gf and I are also thinking of moving to a bigger space in spring/summer - so I'm getting ahead of the game, so to speak!
Here's the facts:
TV has composite, S-Video, and Component (YPbPr) inputs, and according to this Wikipedia article, is up to 480i compatible. (I assume that's over the component inputs.)
PC has VGA, DVI and HDMI output options (from Intel HD3000 built-in graphics on the i5-2500K CPU I have). No room for discreet GPU.
What's the best (and cheapest, if possible) way of getting PC display on this TV if I want to use the component inputs?
I'm guessing a transcoder of some kind is in order, but I've never dealt with those. Found this HDMI-to-component one: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/770115-REG/KanexPro_HDRGBRL_HDMI_to_Component_Converter.html -- which I could go buy tomorrow at the actual store. Seems overpriced, but hey if I can get it tomorrow...
Also, let's say I do buy that converter above: does that mean that I would somehow need to set my HDMI output on the PC to 640x480 for it to display properly on the TV? Am I understanding that correctly? (... because ... that's gonna be a problem in Win7, isn't it?)
I may just buy an easy/cheap VGA-to-Svideo adapter off Monoprice and call it good. It's only going to be used for MAME and console emulators, so I don't really need the top end of this TV's resolution - but I want it if I can get it, and spend less than $100 to do so.
EDIT: If you can't see it, picture is a PS2 hooked up via component.
Felsir:
I think that component is going to be a problem. The signal produced by the PC and that converter will be higher than 480i (and indeed I was not able to switch my win7 to 640x480).
DeLuSioNal29:
You need to check out this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,121491.msg1288804.html#msg1288804
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RyoriNoTetsujin:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on January 06, 2013, 08:23:00 pm ---You need to check out this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,121491.msg1288804.html#msg1288804
--- End quote ---
I had just started reading that thread actually (thanks for the heads up!), but there's a lot of data in there to sort through and absorb. That said, you have helped me to clarify some things for myself; I'm not really concerned about getting true arcade resolutions on this monitor, and I definitely don't want to mess around with Soft15kHz -- never mind that I can't find a single thing that says the i5's GPU supports it anyway.
I've Googled a crude way to get Win 7 into 640x480 and found this. If I can get that to display properly on the TV with that converter, that'd be an ok start. Or am I still missing something from the thread? Like I said, I haven't read all the way through it...
The more I think about it, the more I feel like it'd be cheaper and easier for me in the short term to just drop down to S-video for these purposes, especially since I'm not shooting for native res...
Either way, I'm locked into (and very happy with) my current PC hardware setup, so any solution has to come from something modular, outside the system.
Any more thoughts? I'll keep slogging through that thread...
RyoriNoTetsujin:
Hmm... reading. It's good for you. ;D
640x480 VGA does NOT equal 480i, even with a converter. Got that.
This looks promising: http://video-123.com/pctocomponent.html <-- Price isn't bad, either. Anybody ever ordered from them?
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