CRT madness!

o1s1n wrote: »

Also meant to say, that cable will get you the best RGB picture you can.

However, if you're eager to get it tested now, your monitor more than likely has a composite input too. All you need is one cable for that.

It's really simple actually, just connect a composite video cable out of a console into one of these and that'll go right into the BNC composite input on the monitor.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BNC-Plug-to-Phono-Socket-Adapter-Gold-Plated-Composite-Video-Cable-to-CCTV/383002811809?hash=item592cbf1da1:g:TfAAAOSw8iJeKiCM

I actually have a bag of them if you want one.

If you spare a few i'd be much obliged

i just get black and white on the PC engine, no manuals out there tbh but looks good, the RGB works fine so I assume it has colour, i'll try the saturn next these are all Japanese btw

I have the cable oisin recommended there is no colour options

tried the JP saturn which is the same the rgb changes colours lovely, ithink its the BNC connections

safetyboy wrote: »

tried the JP saturn which is the same the rgb changes colours lovely, ithink its the BNC connections

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safetyboy wrote: »

tried the JP saturn which is the same the rgb changes colours lovely, ithink its the BNC connections

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Esel wrote: »

Question for you CRT fans - what is a 32" Trinitron worth?

Wide-screen? Not a lot unfortunately. People can't give them away. They're not desirable for retro games as older consoles tend to use 4:3.

Speaking of ratios...

Picked up a Dell 2001FP LCD monitor on Adverts (he's got a second one for sale as well), its a 20" 4:3 but supports 15KHz and 31KHz inputs.
Primarily got it for use with my Amiga and Archimedes computers as they do switch between 15K and 31K depending on what resolution and screen mode you're in. But it should work with consoles as well, interesting to see how it scales 240p input..

was offered one two weeks ago... noooo thank you

o1s1n wrote: »

29 inch 4:3 trini will have a smaller footprint and will give a bigger picture than a 32 inch widescreen from what I remember.

2 inches bigger in fact..

http://screen-size.info/

No colour

o1s1n wrote: »

That's mad. So a 32 inch widescreen at 4:3 is only really giving you a 27 inch 4:3 picture?



So you have all the RGB BNC cables (and the Sync cable) going into the correct BNC inputs?

Have you got RGB selected correctly as the input? You need to have Ex Sync pressed too. (that might be on the pull out drawer)

cant find the manual online its a bvm2015p

pic is over 4meg ffs

Upload it here and then post a link

https://imgbb.com/

If you can upload a picture of the drawer buttons and pots that would help too.

Did you press the External Sync button?

Here's where it is on my 2016p

Hard to see from the pics but it doesn't look like any of inputs are RGB ?

geotrig wrote: »

2nd bank of inputs look like they might be rgb but very hard tell from any off the pics

Yeah the back is the exact same as mine, that's an RGB input board in the middle.

Safetyboy - are you connecting the RGB cables up to the middle board?

There's a sync BNC input that you also have to connect on the back.

The picture looks good and synched though. I've a feeling it's to do with the actual button configuration on the drawer. (Might not have RGB and sync selected)

Yep that's right. The first row are all composite only, not RGB.

The composite board in that monitor doesn't support NTSC 60hz signals (you need to buy a separate board for that) - only PAL 50hz.

If you send an NTSC 60hz Japanese signal to a PAL 50hz only input board like you are doing, you'll get black and white. So that explains what you are seeing.

Connect the RGB cables up to the middle board. You'll see the letters R, G & B beside each BNC connector.

There are two connectors per RGB colour. Use the top one for each. (The bottom one sends video out so you can loop it on to another monitor)

Then make sure the Sync cable is also connected to the Sync BNC input. (Fairly sure that's on the first composite board and you already have it plugged in)

Once you have all of that connected, make sure to press the RGB button on the pull out drawer (it's under the 'INPUT SELECT' bank of switches on the top right of the drawer)

Took a few attempts to write that out without it sounding like gibberish

It's annoying that some earlier professional monitors don't support both NTSC and PAL signals over composite. The later ones do.

Although it's probably for the best in this case, as if it did then it would have given a colour picture and Safetyboy would have been accidentally using composite forever. :eek:

Here's the manual for the BVM 2016P which I have. Looking at yours, they're almost identical, just have different controls on the pull out board.

https://cdn.retrorgb.com/assets/monitormanual/Sony_BVM_1916_and_BVM_2016P.pdf

BrownFinger wrote: »

Like the lad on reddit that had his monitor plugged into his mobo instead of his gfx card for 3 years and couldn't figure out why his pc was ****

Did that seriously happen? Hahaha ah jaysus!

its going in the bin unless fixed in 1 day