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cokane5227

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Has anyone hooked up their PS2 or Xbox to their LCD? If so how did it work? How was the picture quality? Do you have to have component input on your LCD to get the best image quality? Or will composite / s-video do the job just fine?
 
You mean to a LCD aimed at the Computer Display market?? few of them support anything above 480p (which almost all xbox games use , some ps2 and some gamecube) Now there are mutimeadia LCD displays with componet imputs ,dvi , HMDI and such inputs that will do 480p and 720p (there are only a few super high end LCD's that will do 1080p and i am sure you can't afford them) so no hooking up a LCD to a computer market aimed LCD will only yeild you 480p resolution with a proper converter .. otherwise don't even bother .
 
Yeah, I meant hooking up the consoles to computer LCD as secondary entertainment. I know very well that an HDTV will do better, but was just wondering how well an LCD monitor will do.

And how would you know what I can and cannot afford? I don't think I was disrespectful in my original post in any ways. :confused: Thanks.
 
the 2405FPW supports 1080P, basicly the games don't look to their fullest because the monitors res is way higher then the output of any of the systems, I personally feel gamecube looks the best for some reason... HDTVs don't currently support 1080P, and when they're released, they'll cost 5-6 grand, just depends on what you want, I'd wait for the next gens to come out to use them on LCD though
 
http://hypothermia.gamershardware.com/articles/projects/x2vga.html

x2vga.jpg


X2VGA...best thing going. This picture is from 2 years ago, but it is easily the best thing out there, I still use mine a lot.


http://www.x2vga.com/
 
I'm thinking about getting a Gamecube and playing it on my 2005fpw... I see that it has component and S-video in. Would it look like crap due to the aspect ratio / signal converstion circuitry?

I'm going to be getting a TV next month, (just a regular TV nothing fancy) so if it looks like crap I may just use it on that. But... if a crummy lo-res TV can support a console, why couldn't a flat panel with the proper inputs?
 
I just got my 1905FP, and I was very disappointed to see that it only had the VGA and DVI inputs. Does anyone have any experience with this and playing console games?
 
try this
http://www.vdigi.com/
this is made to accept any progresive component input (xbox, some gc and ps2 games) and it does an excellent job. it will also pass 480p, 720p, and 1080i if your monitor supports them. i use this with my xbox, ps2 and gamecube and have not had 1 issue yet.
it also has a vga passthrough

here's a pic
vdz3.jpg
 
Thanks. I should know, but I don't: What resolutions are the equivalent of the different HD formats? For example, is 480p 1280x1024?
 
My GameCube looks decent when hooked up via component to my 2405FPW... but it doesn't look nearly as good as it looks on our 32" CRT HDTV.

I'm not sure exactly why the CRT looks so much better, for some reason the jaggies stand out horribly on the LCD... and it just doesn't have the same vibrant look. I must say I was a bit disapointed when I tried it out, but fortunately I can still use the TV for my console gaming.

Perhaps other people have had different experiences.
 
not 100% sure, but
480p=640x480 non-interlaced
720p=1280x720 non-interlaced
1080i=1920x1080 interlaced
1080p=1920x1080 non-interlaced
 
Thanks guys very useful information. It's gonna be fun to try this out, not expecting it to work very well but I have to try it.
 
Sorry Cokane didn't mean to insult .. just that the 1080p Samsung LCD i know of is 46 inch one that goes for about 50,000 dollars ..if you can afford it more power to ya but i suspect that since you asked in your first post about putting it on a computer monitor based LCD that you don't have 50 G's laying around :D
 
Godmachine said:
Sorry Cokane didn't mean to insult .. just that the 1080p Samsung LCD i know of is 46 inch one that goes for about 50,000 dollars ..if you can afford it more power to ya but i suspect that since you asked in your first post about putting it on a computer monitor based LCD that you don't have 50 G's laying around :D
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It's okay I didn't know what you were talking about.
Yuck, I'm gonna need to do some very bad things before I can spent that much money for an LCD. :D :p
 
For this generation of games, except for some Xbox games at 720p and and Gran Turismo 3 at 1080i on the PS2 most of our games run at 480p which is very low for your high resolution PC monitors, so you technically arent getting the most out of it.

If you put those games on a regular TV which does 480i which most games are optimized for right now, that resolution will generally look better on a nice CRT than on a very high resolution monitor like the 1905/2005/2405 flat panels.

Adding an HDTV CRT to the mix will definitely give you better picture overall on anything right now, because CRT's still display the truest range of colors and blacks than any LCD, or microdisplay on the market right now.

The reason we see the jaggies is because we are technically running the game display at a much lower resolution than our computer monitors would like. You can also chock it up to lower dot pitch on flat panels vs HDTV CRT's as well.

You do gain some valuable options like widescreen support with no letterboxing on your widescreen flatpanels, and you are also future proofed for future generations of consoles as long as that panel will do 720p or above. I believe that you have to move up to the 2405 to gain true 1080 support as someone previously mentioned (1920x1080i/p)

I game all my consoles on a Samsung 22" multimedia display. It's technically a 720p HDTV, but due to having DVI I can run my PC on it, and I do. I've found that I really don't mind games that natively support 480p widescreen, but the few that run in 720p really wow me, and I'm very excited to see what the next generation can do with native HD support.

I personally think that my display is more vibrant than on my 32" non HD sony in the living room, but some games like the original Halo and other non widescreen games tend to look better even on the analog TV with component inputs. I can vouch for the jaggie complaint though, it can be awful on certain games. Halo 2 comes directly to mind.

I find that anything on the PS2, Xbox or Gamecube that doesn't support 480p (or above) and widescreen looks like absolute ass on this monitor. To date the only thing that looked awesome for me on PS2 was God of War.

To answer the OP question about the 1905 flat panel and playing games on it, you should be just fine with a good Component to vga/dvi adapter. Haven't seen a Component==> DVI yet, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere. Stay away from composite/S-video to VGA apapters, you are almost guaranteed to hate the image depending on your taste in video quality.
 
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