Thread: Anything wrong with this TFT?

$169 for a 6.8" is awesome. only thing that had me was the "Video input via BNC jack". how would you hook that up to a normal pc?

So your saying that If i buy this unit, i will get a BNC/VGA 15 pin cable that i can plug into any video card and get a picture? without using a TV out card?
I live in australia and we dont have NTSC we have PAL, so you can see why i wish to use this one.

Nope , wouldn't work, those cables have rgb and sync out , this screen is voor composite video only....(i.e. camcorder)(videorecorder on the scart-out side.. etc)
Here in the Netherlands we also have PAL.

Originally posted by stimps:
<STRONG>So your saying that If i buy this unit, i will get a BNC/VGA 15 pin cable that i can plug into any video card and get a picture? without using a TV out card?
I live in australia and we dont have NTSC we have PAL, so you can see why i wish to use this one.

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[ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Frag_lag ]

Originally posted by stimps:
<STRONG>So your saying that If i buy this unit, i will get a BNC/VGA 15 pin cable that i can plug into any video card and get a picture? without using a TV out card?
I live in australia and we dont have NTSC we have PAL, so you can see why i wish to use this one.

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most video cards with tv out can put out an ntsc signal. sometimes with a little hardware changes (jumpers or remove cristal) or sometimes even in the software. so that shouldt be the problem

will this work with NTSC then? im really thinking about getting this but it sounds like this is a bad solution from the mixed answers i am seeing.

personally a 6.8" via a TV signal is going to be fuzzy and small, not the best for what you'll want to do with it. If it was just for winamp and movies, sure, but if you want GPS you're going to want something bigger than that (and also you'll need it to be easy to read).

Just my $0.03

First email them and ask if the video input method is RGB, NTSC, PAL, or else....
if it's NTSC i think this is one great deal. and you CAN do GPS with a NTSC screen. I have 6.8" also and I run all of the above ( mp3, gps, dvd, divx) and at a resolution of 800X600. I can't read everything but being the experienced microsh#t user I am... i just know by heart. hehe..

If you tight on cash go for it. Otherwise go for VGA. If it's RGB you still gonna have trouble trying to do vga to rgb. It's not as easy at it sounds.
good luck and keep us posted.