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mtxblau - Dec 2, 2003

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  Ape Jan 11, 2004
i use vga for dvd and computer games

gotta use s-video and plain video for most stuff, although i do have a vga box for my dreamcast.

i need to order the component to vga adapter from infocus' website, so i can use a digital cable box w/ progressive scan, that'd be sweet (my reception looks like crap... with regular analog cable). eventually my cable company will offer hdtv (hopefully).

edit: oh, the bulb is $299, it does last 4000 hours though (i'm only up to around 275 after a few months)

 croft Jan 11, 2004
Hi Ape / scared rabbit.

Cool posts .

I do have an xobox running on a freinds Sharp projector.

We compared RGB and component cable and on his set up Component rocked :yum.

Soul Calibar 2 was a different game,Colour depth and detail were exemplary .

We then upgraded all dvd players cables to component and it did just the trick

A freind named Col who is real good at modding made his own arcade lead and psu for a Neo geo 1 slot machine.

He runs the one slot on a Sony 28 inch tv and doesnt need an arcade device to run anything .

The cable he made had the audio lead taken out from it,Aswell as the video cable.

The qulaity of image from a 1 slot Neo geo in this comfiguration is simply stagering. .

The infocus unit sounds great Ape,I did see exactly the item that you are after on Ebay last week.

Will have a browse this morning and se if there are some more and report back,

Thankyou,

Ian.

 Ape Jan 11, 2004
theyre like $10 on infocus' website. i'm just too lazy to order one, since i haven't got the digital cable tuner yet (they only gave us 2 and they're in other rooms).

 Scared0o0Rabbit Jan 11, 2004
most projectors support hdtv, the xbox iirc does not support progessive rgb ( read vga ) output without using a hacked bios, it does however output progessive component. That would be why the xbox looked better using component.


  
	
	

		
		

			so i can use a digital cable box w/ progressive scan, that'd be sweet (my reception looks like crap with regular analog cable). eventually my cable company will offer hdtv (hopefully).


progessive and hdtv mean the same thing, if your digital cable box isn't outputing hdtv signals, then it isn't outputing progessive signals.

480p = 640x480 30khz, which is progressive/hdtv

480i = 640x480 15khz, what most tv's use.

 Zziggy00 Jan 11, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by MTXBlau@Jan 10, 2004 @ 05:53 PM



 Zig, that's a great setup there, for a fantastic price. How much are the bulbs for that projector, by the way?


on ebay I can get em for the Dukane projector for like $3-10 bucks a bulb running at about 50-75 hours each...

I put my ATI TV Wonder VE card in the pc so that i could hook TV up to it...it's not a very good tuner card so it doesn't really look that good (plus the fact that the quality is downgraded any way by using the projector...

So my end result is:

GOOD:

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- Price

- Size

- Quality of MAME/DVD/DivX/Mpeg...

BAD:

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- Not good if there is much light

- Bulky equipment

- Not (very) good while using my crappy TV capture card.

 Gallstaff Jan 11, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Ape@Jan 11, 2004 @ 01:26 AM



 i use vga for dvd and computer games 



gotta use s-video and plain video for most stuff, although i do have a vga box for my dreamcast.



i need to order the component to vga adapter from infocus' website, so i can use a digital cable box w/ progressive scan, that'd be sweet (my reception looks like crap... with regular analog cable). eventually my cable company will offer hdtv (hopefully).



edit: oh, the bulb is $299, it does last 4000 hours though (i'm only up to around 275 after a few months)


I was sure they cut that scene from T2 out on the USA version...

 Ape Jan 12, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Scared0o0Rabbit+Jan 11, 2004 @ 07:51 PM-->
QUOTE(Scared0o0Rabbit @ Jan 11, 2004 @ 07:51 PM)
progessive and hdtv mean the same thing, if your digital cable box isn't outputing hdtv signals, then it isn't outputing progessive signals.



480p = 640x480 30khz, which is progressive/hdtv



480i = 640x480 15khz, what most tv's use.[/b]



well by hdtv i meant 576p/720p/1080i, most places call 480p edtv. i don't care wtf it's considered technically, it's gonna be much nicer than this ass-looking signal i have atm