800*480 5in Ebay screens?

[lyberty5]

Lately I've been looking at 5in ebay screens on ebay, and I've stumbled upon a few that specified that they were 800*480 and NOT 480*272 (they sometimes made it the whole title)

exemple : http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Inch-Great-Co ... 5d46d2a636


I'm wondering about those, since they look exactly like the others from the pictures.. I doubt that they are that much better for the same price. I'd like to try both but I don't know if my budget will allow it.

If I have more info I'll surely post it here


Also to all you NTSC peeps that enjoy VGA, I found this reasonably priced VGA/Composite 800*480 screen that looks a bit more believable.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-5-0-inch-800x ... 461642c7de

I might even end up bying those ^^

 

[Diminuendo]

love it if someone can confirm whether the VGA screen can handle interlaced

 

[lyberty5]

*Can'tSayThisOnTV* it, I bought the supposedly "high def" composite screen, i'll hook it up to my wii and we'll see if I can get some actual 480p action. Whoch would be cool since those screens require minimal work.

 

[hailrazer]

You can't get 480p through composite.

You have to use VGA, Component or HDMI/DVI

 

[lyberty5]

I guess I got confused by my wii settings saying I was outputting 480p. Thanks.
Even though, the "normal" definition of those screens can't display all of the 360p image.

But obviously I don't really believe they'll have such a definition. We'll see in a month.

 

[lyberty5]

Ok so I recieved the screen and from the box to the actual casing they like to remind you that this is supposed to be 800*480

It seems as though they didn't lie. However since there's no other way to connect it than composite, the picture quality isn't that great. But as for actual definition I think they didn't lie, it looks pretty good to my uneducated eye.

However I haven't had experience with 5" screens of any kind (except the psone screens) so maybe someone would like to correct me on that using the non-resized picture below :

http://nsa20.casimages.com/img/2014/01/ ... 318447.jpg

It even has a possibility to switch between 4 and 16:9 which is nice.
The only big problem so far is that (as you'll see in the picture), the image is off by half a centimeter to the right, which is pretty disapointing, and this only happends in PAL 60Hz (480i according to the wii)
However in PAL 50Hz, there's no problem.. That's kind of a disapointement, does anyone know of a way to fix that ?

All things considered, I don't think those screens are worth double the price of other ebay 5" screens, but that was to be expected...

 

[grossaffe]

The only big problem so far is that (as you'll see in the picture), the image is off by half a centimeter to the right, which is pretty disapointing, and this only happends in PAL 60Hz (480i according to the wii)
However in PAL 50Hz, there's no problem.. That's kind of a disapointement, does anyone know of a way to fix that ?

I don't know about the screen itself, but can't you go into the wii's settings and center the picture that way?

 

[lyberty5]

The picture above is with the screen recentered through the wii settings, as you said..

It only goes like one or two mm max..

 

[lyberty5]

I'm sorry to post once more but I just wanted to conlude this topic saying that I was able to compare these to another 400*240 screen.

Turns out those are the real deal, only composite though, but you don't loose one pixel of the image.

 

[alinktothenes]

I can say from experience that these don't work with snes genesis or nes. Using it for a gc portable though and I think it looks nice.