Retro monitor - For all of the things

[Cheeko]

 

Couldn’t decide which thread would be best to post it in so figured it was worth its own. Makes so much sense!

£250 for 19”

Kickstarter

[Protocol Penguin]

Looks an absolute waste of cash aimed at the gullible. You don’t even get the display panel for that £250!

 

edit: that linked-to YouTube channel pushed crypto in his latest offering, FWIW.

Edited January 8 by Protocol Penguin

[MikeJ]

14 minutes ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Looks an absolute waste of cash aimed at the gullible. You don’t even get the display panel for that £250!

 

edit: that linked-to YouTube channel pushed crypto in his latest offering, FWIW.

 

I agree, it's a plastic box with a generic panel and controller in it (that you have to pay extra for later on) that looks like an LCD from the early 2000s. The "pods" are stuff like a GBS8220 with GBS-Control screwed to some plastic that have to be wired up in some way yet to be demonstrated (the backplane included in photos is not included and is "in development").

[Cheeko]

Yeah you’re right, looking at it you’re ending up paying £500 for an actual useable thing, ffs. How are they raising so much on Kickstarter!? There has to be a better alternative?

[MikeJ]

My alternative is a Dell P1917S that I paid £30 for off ebay (and actually does 15khz over VGA unlike theirs), a GBS8200+GBS-Control and some velcro. Total cost around £100, or £200 if you buy a new rather than second hand monitor.

[spanky debrest]

High input lag + wrong aspect ratio = hard nope.

[MikeJ]

I've followed the development of this closely as there is no really good solution for a small LCD monitor for use with old computers and consoles, and it's about as close as you will get form factor wise short of getting someone to make 4:3 20" or smaller LCD panels again (if you read the comments on the video you will see the majority of people assume square-ish monitor = 4:3 so that may not matter much). It's just an awful lot of money for a load of off the shelf components bunged into a plastic shell and has many questions over the usability (what is the power on experience like? Will everything work via the OSD or will I need an army of remotes and mobile apps to use anything other than built in connectivity? etc).

 

I have a general feeling that a lot of people are going to be disappointed when 1. They get an invoice for £180 in April to pay for the panel and 2. They receive it and can't connect a SCART/s-video cable to it because they didn't spend an additional £100 on a module that accepts it. There is plenty of time between now and shipping dates however so we will see I suppose.

[ucci]

The fella behind it seemed alright when I met him at an amiga meeting in Swindon. 

 

His products are defo not crap quality at least. They raised over £370k! Mental. 

[cubik]

I can't comment on the performance but that's some seriously ugly design work.

Imagine having a carefully curated collection of some of the finest pieces of consumer electronics ever created and then hooking them up to that fugly shite.

[ucci]

Should have included a native 480p panel in there too for the AV nerds to geek out on. Imagine connecting up a prog scan dvd player to it, all your DVD collection instantly in high def again.