For sale: Japanese LCD screen
30 July 2002, 04:37 PM
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Right, I've given up. I bought this from Ronnie and haven't had chance to get it fully working yet. If someone else fancies a challenge...
It's an EPSON in-car TV screen. I've powered it up, got it displaying a black and white picture... I suspect it needs an NTSC input and I've only tried PAL. It's definitely a colour screen, as if you power it up with the handbrake safety cable left unearthed you get yellow text on blue background saying "For safety reasons we cannot show you a picture". (In Japanese)
I even tracked down the remote from Japan (thanks AJBaseBloke!) so you can switch between TV, navigation IN and video IN.
35 quid.
Nick.
It's an EPSON in-car TV screen. I've powered it up, got it displaying a black and white picture... I suspect it needs an NTSC input and I've only tried PAL. It's definitely a colour screen, as if you power it up with the handbrake safety cable left unearthed you get yellow text on blue background saying "For safety reasons we cannot show you a picture". (In Japanese)
I even tracked down the remote from Japan (thanks AJBaseBloke!) so you can switch between TV, navigation IN and video IN.
35 quid.
Nick.
30 July 2002, 07:37 PM
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Nick - I'm impressed you know the Japanese for "safety reasons" 
I take it the system doesn't have a component (RGB) input for video in? The only thing I can think of is you might be able to get a cheap PAL TV tuner that could output RGB and send that across. Once it's in RGB, in theory the colour isn't encoded, so should be no PAL/NTSC (or even SECAM) issues.
I take it the system doesn't have a component (RGB) input for video in? The only thing I can think of is you might be able to get a cheap PAL TV tuner that could output RGB and send that across. Once it's in RGB, in theory the colour isn't encoded, so should be no PAL/NTSC (or even SECAM) issues.
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Now I know how that went
Too bad Chiark - I believe that one of the converters that were/maybe still are used in multi-system VCRs from the likes of Hitachi may help (to play PAL tapes on NTSC TVs - I used to have one). I think Panasonic made one too. Someone told me that a little black box could be bought that did the same thing...
Hope this helps.
Too bad Chiark - I believe that one of the converters that were/maybe still are used in multi-system VCRs from the likes of Hitachi may help (to play PAL tapes on NTSC TVs - I used to have one). I think Panasonic made one too. Someone told me that a little black box could be bought that did the same thing...
Hope this helps.
03 August 2002, 03:51 PM
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Back in the mists of time, when I first bought this of Ronnie, a chap called colin asked me to let him know if I ever wanted to get rid. So he's now got it. Sorry Christian, he had first call from waaaaay back and I forgot. Oops.
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