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15 years ago
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Info on prices and skillset there, as well as my best examples.
http://h1.ripway.com/ucnux/XuncuFla.....teV2/home.html
http://h1.ripway.com/ucnux/Flash%20.....uncu_flash.htm
Several hours of cleaning, shuffling stuff around, and recycling, just to make room for finally getting to testing if the eletronic cables you rigged together to get your Wii to connect to your monitor (which has HDMI, VGA, and DVI ports, but nothing lower), just to have only the sound work, cuz that was another smaller rig direct to your PC tower, and having it go through your speakers. Well, at least that works, so when I move, what I wanted to do is get a new one (cuz this monitor also has some really fucked-up butoons: not buttons at all, but 'pressure sensitive' spots that're backlit into buttons. The fuckers never register when I fucking press them whycouldn'ttheyjustbeBUTTONS?!
So, the order of quality for media cables, specifically videogame consoles, goes;
*RF Switch (the Coaxial 'cable TV/Antannea' cable, where all audio and video were on the same cable-- I dunno about like like Ataris and before, but it was Standard in the 3rd generation (NES era)
*Then the Composite Cables: yellow for video, and left (white) and right (red) audio channels (if mono audio, then just white). Was standard for quite a few console generations, it's the standard cable that comes with the Wii.
*Then what I think was the biggest leap in quality; S-Video. The audio was still red/white, but the S-Video was like the first dedicated-for-quality video cable (for videogames, anyways. computer monitors had also come a long way from the green phosphorous screens to "decent" (at the time) quality). Also, I never seen SCART, that's only in Europe.
*Component: Red/Blue/Green, with R/W audio still (I have not had the oppertunity to use one of those fancy Digital/Optical audio... thingies).
N'that's what most consoles now have. I think PS3's supposed to have HDMI cables, but they're supposed to be really rare.
Anyways, this monitor, it's all HD/widescreen LCD, really nice, except:
the aforementioned buttons
No other connector type besides HDMI, VGA, and DVI (FYI: I don't know which is "better". ANybody know?)
*Along with that; I can't switch it to 3:4 ratio, for if I somehow was able to hook up, say, my SNES or Dreamcast, it'd be all stretched out.
Really crappy 1-watt speakers that're on the back. I HAD to get some nice desktop speakers, cus it made music suck, and may have been Mono, and their interface is with the cheezy buttons. Having set it's volume to 0, I dunno if that's still using power or not, too.
I still have a cathrode ray tube TV, 14-inch, for several reasons:
combo VCR--- when I got it, DVD wasn't popular/availible/cheap yet and I wanted to watch movies in my own room, and it was easy to record games to show off to friends.
Multiple speakers; STILL has really good sound quality.
And it had Composite jacks. Woulda been nice if it also had S-Video, but not all consoles back then even had cables for S-video.
So, what I plan to do, when I move out is to sell this monitor (since I'm paranoid about scratching it anyways, at least it'll be someone else's responsibility when they come get it), and go shopping for a new monitor when I move in to... wherever. I'm sure I can get one of this (Video) quality much cheaper/easier now, but maybe I'll go for one that's built more for being a TV, so I can switch aspect ratios and connect my older consoles.
But this is kind of an irellivant thing to make such a long journal about at 2AM on a night before classes. ^^;; At least my class today doesn't start untill 1 PM (but may have to take the 11 AM bus, because BUSES FUCKING SUCK.
So, the order of quality for media cables, specifically videogame consoles, goes;
*RF Switch (the Coaxial 'cable TV/Antannea' cable, where all audio and video were on the same cable-- I dunno about like like Ataris and before, but it was Standard in the 3rd generation (NES era)
*Then the Composite Cables: yellow for video, and left (white) and right (red) audio channels (if mono audio, then just white). Was standard for quite a few console generations, it's the standard cable that comes with the Wii.
*Then what I think was the biggest leap in quality; S-Video. The audio was still red/white, but the S-Video was like the first dedicated-for-quality video cable (for videogames, anyways. computer monitors had also come a long way from the green phosphorous screens to "decent" (at the time) quality). Also, I never seen SCART, that's only in Europe.
*Component: Red/Blue/Green, with R/W audio still (I have not had the oppertunity to use one of those fancy Digital/Optical audio... thingies).
N'that's what most consoles now have. I think PS3's supposed to have HDMI cables, but they're supposed to be really rare.
Anyways, this monitor, it's all HD/widescreen LCD, really nice, except:
the aforementioned buttons
No other connector type besides HDMI, VGA, and DVI (FYI: I don't know which is "better". ANybody know?)
*Along with that; I can't switch it to 3:4 ratio, for if I somehow was able to hook up, say, my SNES or Dreamcast, it'd be all stretched out.
Really crappy 1-watt speakers that're on the back. I HAD to get some nice desktop speakers, cus it made music suck, and may have been Mono, and their interface is with the cheezy buttons. Having set it's volume to 0, I dunno if that's still using power or not, too.
I still have a cathrode ray tube TV, 14-inch, for several reasons:
combo VCR--- when I got it, DVD wasn't popular/availible/cheap yet and I wanted to watch movies in my own room, and it was easy to record games to show off to friends.
Multiple speakers; STILL has really good sound quality.
And it had Composite jacks. Woulda been nice if it also had S-Video, but not all consoles back then even had cables for S-video.
So, what I plan to do, when I move out is to sell this monitor (since I'm paranoid about scratching it anyways, at least it'll be someone else's responsibility when they come get it), and go shopping for a new monitor when I move in to... wherever. I'm sure I can get one of this (Video) quality much cheaper/easier now, but maybe I'll go for one that's built more for being a TV, so I can switch aspect ratios and connect my older consoles.
But this is kind of an irellivant thing to make such a long journal about at 2AM on a night before classes. ^^;; At least my class today doesn't start untill 1 PM (but may have to take the 11 AM bus, because BUSES FUCKING SUCK.
