Dar'o What do you mean by old-ish? I have a bunch of CRTs at my house I use VGA on all my monitors. I don't see a big difference between my laptop and my desktop's image quality.
I bought an old portable dvd player back in like 2013 to do exactly this... only problem is, i didn't know how. I'm just now getting back into tinkering and saw this.... this is fantastic!!!
I love, love, love that you posted this!!!! I just bought a Vialta VF-100G Digital Picture Frame for $2 from a local second hand store. It has a 6.8" TFT LCD that uses the exact same Sharp IR3Y29B chip. You just made hacking it super easy, thanks.
What kind of educational experience do you have if you don't mind me asking? I'm currently a third year computer engineering student and I find your videos fascinating.
Hey there, I am a huge fan of your videos! I just want to let you know that I used your raspberry pi game boy tutorials along with your other videos in order to build my brother a retropi game boy for Christmas. it turned out perfectly and I feel as though I've learned so much. Thank you so much for your videos, this is easily some of the best content on youtube.
Love the video - the Goodmans GCE5006DVD uses the exact same circuit boards. I followed your wiring guide and spliced on a video input but kept the casing intact. Very cool
After i watch this video i found my old portable dvd. That was a sign. I took it apart but i found easier way to plug an external signal. The screen was connected by a 5 pin plug witch 2 pins was video signal and the other two was for TFT light power. I took of the screen and simply cut the wires, then do video and power plug and it works as a portable monitor. I do everything in my way but the idea was Yours ant thanks for that.
ironscull Oh. I have a Memorex MM-8500. I don't know that much about circuits, but I do know how to use a screwdriver, so I took it apart an found out what SoC it had and removed the DVD reader. I want to put the RPi Zero in the empty space and power it using what was for the DVD drive, but if I were to replace the battery - I think it's completely dead - and get an new charger - lost it so many years ago and turned it on with out the Pi, would it overload the PSU?
Great video, love the ideas for retro tech. I'm looking to ad an LCD to the case of my ps4, ideally wired directly to the ps4 so the HDMI port is free for my primary tv. I even thought of adding a crt viewfinder instead, but thats a whole other level of geekery.
My mom gave me a old one of these and she said it stopped working after it made a loud pop and smoke and I watched one of your videos the said “Before you throw away a TVs check the board” so I did and I saw one of the capacitor Popped and I fixed it and it work so thank you for your videos
You make it look so easy, I def learned something. Here's a project I wanna see done... Take the screen from a MacBook Air and turn it into a slick portable monitor keeping the Aluminum chassis it is housed in.
This is gave me a great idea to use a banana pi for a lcd I took out of a laptop we were throwing away. It'd make a cool signage device or portable player. Thanks for the idea GreatScott! !
Fantastic, i found your channel while investigating ambilights for my RPi. looked through your other videos, found this and you have solved a problem ive had for sometime.i wanted to strip out a Mustek portable dvd and drop the RPi in the case, got stuck at the video inputs as i didnt want to use the socket the same as you lol!!. it has a different main board but the screen driver is exactly the same as yours, "Warm up the iron honey, we got solderin to do....."
Over 3 years later and I would like to see you use it to make a portable RetroPie gaming machine. I know there are videos and guides all over the internet for it but I did like your take on the Gameboy RetroPie and would love to see what you would do for this project. Also, awesome videos back then and still going strong! Hope to see videos of you for a long time!
I have a portable DVD player from 2006. (Element Electronics PDZ-081E). I bought it on eBay, and I listened to a CD. Also watched a movie or two on it. Yes it is compatible with CDs.
Many cheap portable DVD players have LCD screen with only video signal feed. Very simple to use it as monitor for composite signal. The resolution is mostly around 320x240 / 480x240 and not always 800x480. 800x480 is much better picture, but hard to find with only video input. There are less portable players for it. They might use RGB or digital video in (LVDS signal is used in high resolution LCD screens)
I love your videos you are obviously very very knowledgable in Electronics and computer electronics too. I have no idea what you are talking about when you commentate ( not your English that is fantastic) but about the electronics ha ha ha . I wish I did . Thank you. Baz
I found your channel just a couple of weeks ago when i found your ambilight clone projekt. I really like your videos, they are very well done!! And i'm looking forward to watch all of them. :) Videos like this is awesome!! Thank you for your work!!!!
Impeccable timing for me, I just started on the exact same project right when your video came out, but had no idea what I was doing. Found your video and now I have a clue! :D I've run into a snag however, I'll look again but the past few times I've looked I can really only find one major chip, the MT1389QE. I couldn't find a datasheet for that exact chip, but found one for MT1389 so I'm hoping it's the same. My problem is I can't find a "video_in" like you (lucky!), and am having a hard time figuring out what all the letters mean to try to find video in. I couldn't find a service manual for the dvd player (Philips PET7402), but found a service manual for other DVD players (Philips DVP4050 and DVP720SA) that use the MT1389QE to try to figure out which pin to use and I'm still lost. Any suggestions?
You are a true genius and are awesome you have shown me most of the things I now know about electronics I should have subscribed much longer you are just a GreatScott!
Hi Scott! Here is a suggestion, please show how we can use logic boards and power boards from a different monitor to fix a broken one! I've got a 25" monitor Hanns G, model HSG1064 which has a logic board and a power board that keep failing. The screen however works fine and the quality of the screen is pretty good. I've kept it in the hope that one day I would learn how to properly transplant a power board and a logic board to make use of the screen. If you don't make a video about this but know of any resources or have some piece of advice please share it with me as a reply to this comment. Thank you very much and keep up the amazing videos!
I still watch vhs dvd and bluray. The greatest actor who every lived was humphrey bogart, and I have a large collection his films and also basil rathbone as sherlock holmes. No format is truly dead, just sleeping
Hey man....so yeah i was searching online for a nice hack to my old 05 philips dvd player...this is great work man...your a genius that knows how to find the correct ic information and searching pathways...excellent work...you did all the hard work for me...i have a small request...can you make it work with fpv? Should be as simple as plugging in input at this point i belive...i really am consolidating as much resources ive had for ages to manufacture my own fpv rc all in one transmitter...you know them all in one transmitters can run 500 upwards to thousands for the agricultural ones🥴i just need one to boast🤣
I am always disappointed to throw away perfectly good components. Consequently I look for things to build using some or most of them. I even try inventing things, some of those stories are very sad. Excellent presentation. They cal me the "Doodeldog" because in early school I would insist on doodeling objects that could work instead of listening to the lesson. I was still a great student, My real name is Don. Cheers!
just google the part number followed by datasheet, you will get all available info about the chip, and even info about other versions of the chip, sometimes you get a basic schematic for the more simple chips
Your videos are so helpful could you do a video of connecting the disk drive to the Arduino board or whatever board type that is through the pins so you can use disks drive
Took me forever but u can buy a usb to av adapter with software for converting vhs to digital format’ vhs ribbons will go bad over time and deteriorate and like u had a boat load of old family home videos’ the sucky part is u have to sit there and watch the whole thing as it records then hit stop when it’s done etc but in the end so worth it now those memories are mp4 and digital can put on sd card thumb drive etc make a dvd from files etc’ think my vhs to dvd converter was like $13 on eBay this was a few years ago prolly $20 now with everything going up’ but so worth the pay off cause vhs will go bad even just airing unused and those memories r gone for ever something to think about hope it helps bud
@@joshymcdaniel9233 thanks for the information l. I'll definitely look for this adapter. But sadly my VHS player broke I hope I'll find a good one somewhere. But yeah I have some old VHS tapes and the quality of those are really bad hopefully with a new player I can record those old memories.
GreatScott! It just so happens that I have the (almost) exact same thing. The only differences are that it is under the brand name "yukai" and it has a black plastic cover on the bottom.
I have a few old GPS touchscreens for cars. I would like to see you do a video on using those as maybe a portable gaming device maybe make a portable Playstation or Xbox. Or turn a desktop into a portable machine giving you desktop power with laptop mobility. Also want to learn how to run my PC in my car
wonderful! I have asked quite a few computer technicians if I can use a broken down laptop LCD as a desktop monitor, and their answer have always been "no" though in my mind I knew there must be a way...
+Stephen Chen That is completely different. The answer is actually not so much a "no" as a "not easily, and if you have to ask me it means you probably dont have the skills to do it, so I will politely just say no rather than try to explain it to you". I will however take some time to explain it, simplified. The LCD panels in portable DVD players and other integrated devices have multiple components, one of which is a controller. This controller manages the pixel state in the LCD screen itself, which is a fairly intensive task. It decodes the input, works out which pixels need to be changed and writes the new data to the LCD bus. A laptop panel however doesnt have this controller. The video card in the laptop is responsible for performing this task. What this means is that the LCD itself has nothing to decode the input, or change the state of pixels...Now of course you could build a circuit to do this, however it would be cheaper to just buy a screen already made with the characteristics you wanted. There are some third party products for this task, they are limited to lower color settings than you would get from a computer though..and the resolution isnt that great. The issue largely comes from the massive data throughput needed to operate a computer display...each pixel has to be told which color and brightness to display...in the old days when you had windows 95 you might remember 16 bit color, etc...Well for us to control a HD display we would need a minimum of 24 bits per pixel. Some math: 24 bits color depth (considered "true color") Note, this mode doesnt have transparency support. 32 bit is minimum for that. 48 bit is the new 4k format, and has millions of shades of every color. 1920 * 1080 = 2073600 pixels 2073600(pixels) * 24 (bits per pixel) = 49766400 bits to show an image on the screen at minimum color depth. The final piece to this puzzle is the refresh rate. That is how many times per second does the screen update...40 frames a second is considered nice, but 30 fps is totally ok for video playback. 49766400(bits for a frame) * 30 = 1492992000 bits per second to update a standard 1920 * 1080 panel at 30 fps with 24 bit color depth. 1,492,992,000 bits per second = 1492 mbps. Standard adsl 2+ is around 24 mbps Standard HDDs read at about 120 Mbps or 916 mbps So the speed that your computer can read your hard drive data is about half as fast as you would need to run a monitor at minimum...Im not saying its impossible, it isnt...but it would cost a lot, and take a lot of time and effort..and the end result wouldnt be as good as you could get off ebay for 1/100th the cost or less. So as you can see, it takes pretty powerful processing hardware to run an LCD panel...You would be better off trying to hack the video card. Of course that is extremely hard for a variety of different reasons. Hope this helps
+Tyson Popynick Pixel clear :) I do know a little about electronics and does pc tweaking trouble shooting in my spare time and I still wish I could revive some of the dead legacy electronics here at home including a broken laptop with an intact LCD hahah. but very well explained I prolly have to keep things practical.
Very interesting videos, thank you for making them. I subscribe after the first video but found this one very interesting. I have an older portable dvd player like the one in your video, and I have a question about it. could a port be added even if I had to mount it outside of the case where a usb flashdrive could be used since it can hold several movies rather then packing several dvds for the kids to watch on road trips.
yeah have hacked some of these and build in an C64 DTV ... the hard thing was to find small ps2 keyboards that fit in the case. minimum 15 years ago? don't have it anymore.
It can't be a cold cathode, because cold cathode is a sort of vacuum tube. This is an EL (ElectroLuminescent) pad. Still, good video on a simple and fun project.
Hi scott, your videos are just amazing how about Amazing Scott next time loll. I saw a few videos on doing a supercomputer with multiple raspberry pi 3b+ and i need your advise on it why not building one (maybe 4 or 5 pi) just to know what are the real benefits of doing that project. Is it worth the extra dollars? I would really appreciate but if u cant, maybe just give me some advices thanks
The S-VIDEO port at the beginning might be just a custom-build non-standard 3.5mm connector of this standard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video , which connector's shape looks like PS/2 mouse connector in it's normal size
Awesome Video! I have got a Philips portable dvd player which I would like to mod in the same way. The problem is that I only see a video cable from the main board to the tft board which is labeled RGB (3 wires + ground). Is there a way to input composite video in that case? The main board is a "PET702 DVD BOARD".
I was looking at using the camera from some old phones. NOT too old, say S3 or S4? I should have a Sony with a true 22 MP camera. My question is, Do these send composite signals or do you have to do some digital decoding? All hacks I find here are about removing the IR filter. Thats nice but a hi-rez camera made to fit my 4" telescope. Thanks for your time.
I have one o these and its VERY simmelar! The WHOLE guts of the disp are the same! even those shitty caps at the very left!! Im now useing the Display for a wirreles doorbell video system (and i have vids on that)
This guy rocks mad silly fly, like a boss. This is exactly what the cat next door and I were looking for the other day. He said it was impossible because I was stupid. He came over after milk time to see what I was doing. "What the hell are you doing?" asked the cat. "You can't use a DSI port on the pi yet." Nobody ever told me that. It doesn't have a video-in jack. What am I supposed to do? "You should watch this one dude on the Internet." suggested the cat. And here I am.
"Who watches DVDs anymore?"
Me, an intellectual: I watch DVDs
Will i actually dont watch but my girlfriend does!
The Enderman I watch dvd when I can’t find a certain movie on Netflix
@robloxboy1000 I watch both DVD and Blu-ray
I watch dvd I actually have a problem as I have more than 500 DVDs
so do i.
If you still had the original case, you could have made a Linux-based netbook!
+Nate Dude Or a portable gaming console / hardware emulator!
Woah! How'd you read my mind?! That's exactly what I was gonna do. I just need a RPi and a keyboard.
+Muranaman yea and the fact that it's using analog video input will make it look old-ish like the old consoles, not pixel-perfect emulator-like
Dar'o What do you mean by old-ish? I have a bunch of CRTs at my house I use VGA on all my monitors. I don't see a big difference between my laptop and my desktop's image quality.
@@ChrisD__ must not have a very good computer! (:
I bought an old portable dvd player back in like 2013 to do exactly this... only problem is, i didn't know how. I'm just now getting back into tinkering and saw this.... this is fantastic!!!
Man you've grown so much 🙏 saw this video and the nostalgia hit. So happy for you.
I love, love, love that you posted this!!!! I just bought a Vialta VF-100G Digital Picture Frame for $2 from a local second hand store. It has a 6.8" TFT LCD that uses the exact same Sharp IR3Y29B chip. You just made hacking it super easy, thanks.
This is one of the first videos that changed everything for me. I always love your videos and they give me ideas but this one takes the cake!
What kind of educational experience do you have if you don't mind me asking? I'm currently a third year computer engineering student and I find your videos fascinating.
+Tibaxz I did an interview with the Amphour recently. You can find the answer there.
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Hey there, I am a huge fan of your videos! I just want to let you know that I used your raspberry pi game boy tutorials along with your other videos in order to build my brother a retropi game boy for Christmas. it turned out perfectly and I feel as though I've learned so much. Thank you so much for your videos, this is easily some of the best content on youtube.
Nice hack!
You helped me learn arduino
Love the video - the Goodmans GCE5006DVD uses the exact same circuit boards. I followed your wiring guide and spliced on a video input but kept the casing intact.
Very cool
After i watch this video i found my old portable dvd. That was a sign. I took it apart but i found easier way to plug an external signal. The screen was connected by a 5 pin plug witch 2 pins was video signal and the other two was for TFT light power. I took of the screen and simply cut the wires, then do video and power plug and it works as a portable monitor. I do everything in my way but the idea was Yours ant thanks for that.
ironscull You're welcome
+Oli Siska *you're *awesome
What model is it? I try it too.
Chris D It was some Universum dvd i don't remember modell.
ironscull Oh. I have a Memorex MM-8500. I don't know that much about circuits, but I do know how to use a screwdriver, so I took it apart an found out what SoC it had and removed the DVD reader. I want to put the RPi Zero in the empty space and power it using what was for the DVD drive, but if I were to replace the battery - I think it's completely dead - and get an new charger - lost it so many years ago and turned it on with out the Pi, would it overload the PSU?
Sweet !!! I have a few old portable DVD player I can pull the screens out of. Great to know it's that easy to hook up a video in to it.
This is just what I need. I have a portable DVD player with the excact same chip in it.
Thank you very much, now I can make some use of the display :)
You just saved my day. Im building a portable ps2 slim and im using an old portable dvd player but i couldnt figure out how connect the screen.
sir your projects are easy and best for technicians even for beginners..
Great video, love the ideas for retro tech. I'm looking to ad an LCD to the case of my ps4, ideally wired directly to the ps4 so the HDMI port is free for my primary tv. I even thought of adding a crt viewfinder instead, but thats a whole other level of geekery.
My mom gave me a old one of these and she said it stopped working after it made a loud pop and smoke and I watched one of your videos the said “Before you throw away a TVs check the board” so I did and I saw one of the capacitor Popped and I fixed it and it work so thank you for your videos
hope to video about reusing mobile screen in small project
+Astuces de Trente Secondes - Must Kunst
it's very good idea but I don't think anyone would do it
+Astuces de Trente Secondes - Must Kunst
so do it and upload the video , and the old mobile screen you can get it from anywhere it's not an issue
'Beamer' is a projector, btw.
iPreferToBeAnonymous
Beamer is a BMW. 😉
iPreferToBeAnonymous THANK you. ;)
@@scwfan08 Ok Boomer
You make it look so easy, I def learned something. Here's a project I wanna see done... Take the screen from a MacBook Air and turn it into a slick portable monitor keeping the Aluminum chassis it is housed in.
This is gave me a great idea to use a banana pi for a lcd I took out of a laptop we were throwing away. It'd make a cool signage device or portable player. Thanks for the idea GreatScott! !
Thanks! This was precisely what I needed and I hadn't yet found a way to do it.
Fantastic, i found your channel while investigating ambilights for my RPi. looked through your other videos, found this and you have solved a problem ive had for sometime.i wanted to strip out a Mustek portable dvd and drop the RPi in the case, got stuck at the video inputs as i didnt want to use the socket the same as you lol!!. it has a different main board but the screen driver is exactly the same as yours, "Warm up the iron honey, we got solderin to do....."
Over 3 years later and I would like to see you use it to make a portable RetroPie gaming machine. I know there are videos and guides all over the internet for it but I did like your take on the Gameboy RetroPie and would love to see what you would do for this project.
Also, awesome videos back then and still going strong! Hope to see videos of you for a long time!
Can we use the video output signal from the setup box of tv to give video input to the display
I have a portable DVD player from 2006. (Element Electronics PDZ-081E). I bought it on eBay, and I listened to a CD. Also watched a movie or two on it. Yes it is compatible with CDs.
I used my dvd player to hack the Pentagon. :)
0x01 just put a Raspberry Pi into it and put Kali Linux on the SD card. Then just learn how to hack.
Simply Agent Agrimar please help someone hacked my tv. They changed the language so I could not enjoy tv dvd anymore!
@crafters2003YT tell me the data files on ufos
im using spaghetti to listen to aliens in space
I hacked my brother with a stick.
That was amazing to see you do that. Thank you for posting.
Omfg can't get enough of this channel
Wow! You defiantly deserve more Subscribers (and views). Thank you for this wonderful video.
You're reading my mind!
I just yesterday remember that I have philips portable DVD laying around in my garage.
Many cheap portable DVD players have LCD screen with only video signal feed. Very simple to use it as monitor for composite signal. The resolution is mostly around 320x240 / 480x240 and not always 800x480.
800x480 is much better picture, but hard to find with only video input. There are less portable players for it. They might use RGB or digital video in (LVDS signal is used in high resolution LCD screens)
I was going to get a new screen for my Raspberry Pi but I've got a stack of old portable Dvd players I'll now try to re purpose thanks to this.
Michael Parker the resolution on those is bad.
Thanks, this was exactly what i needed! Now to see if i can trace circuits...
I love your videos you are obviously very very knowledgable in Electronics and computer electronics too.
I have no idea what you are talking about when you commentate ( not your English that is fantastic) but about the electronics ha ha ha .
I wish I did . Thank you. Baz
WOW that easy to find monitor video-in !!! now I can continue opening old devices to discover :D thanks
Nice reccomendation 6 years later TH-cam! Where my 2020's at?
I found your channel just a couple of weeks ago when i found your ambilight clone projekt. I really like your videos, they are very well done!! And i'm looking forward to watch all of them. :)
Videos like this is awesome!! Thank you for your work!!!!
Totally like what you did!! Gives me an idea how to approach some of my video dilemmas. Thanks for posting.
You definitly did some nice work hacking that dvd player!
See that ROM chip at 2:07 Would be a cool idea to desolder it and flash a hacked bootloader on it to make it run Linux from a DVD.
Impeccable timing for me, I just started on the exact same project right when your video came out, but had no idea what I was doing. Found your video and now I have a clue! :D I've run into a snag however, I'll look again but the past few times I've looked I can really only find one major chip, the MT1389QE. I couldn't find a datasheet for that exact chip, but found one for MT1389 so I'm hoping it's the same. My problem is I can't find a "video_in" like you (lucky!), and am having a hard time figuring out what all the letters mean to try to find video in. I couldn't find a service manual for the dvd player (Philips PET7402), but found a service manual for other DVD players (Philips DVP4050 and DVP720SA) that use the MT1389QE to try to figure out which pin to use and I'm still lost. Any suggestions?
6 years ago
"Who use dvds now "
😂 2020 - me 😂
same lol
Nice project Scotty.
Excellent Technical Video. Your Style is very Professional.
You are a true genius and are awesome you have shown me most of the things I now know about electronics I should have subscribed much longer you are just a GreatScott!
Nothing short of amazing, great vid!
You have some great videos sir! keep em coming! giving me some of my own great ideas!
I was hoping to see you break into the firmware but repurposing the display is still nice.
Our old great scott
Hi Scott! Here is a suggestion, please show how we can use logic boards and power boards from a different monitor to fix a broken one! I've got a 25" monitor Hanns G, model HSG1064 which has a logic board and a power board that keep failing. The screen however works fine and the quality of the screen is pretty good. I've kept it in the hope that one day I would learn how to properly transplant a power board and a logic board to make use of the screen.
If you don't make a video about this but know of any resources or have some piece of advice please share it with me as a reply to this comment.
Thank you very much and keep up the amazing videos!
I still watch vhs dvd and bluray. The greatest actor who every lived was humphrey bogart, and I have a large collection his films and also basil rathbone as sherlock holmes. No format is truly dead, just sleeping
Guten tag... sagen Sie mal, do you think there's a chance that you can do that with a smartphone display?
Du brauchst nur den richtigen chip
Dann ist ganz einfach
Noch verkabeln
Löten
Usw
Ok?
Best channel ever!
Hey man....so yeah i was searching online for a nice hack to my old 05 philips dvd player...this is great work man...your a genius that knows how to find the correct ic information and searching pathways...excellent work...you did all the hard work for me...i have a small request...can you make it work with fpv? Should be as simple as plugging in input at this point i belive...i really am consolidating as much resources ive had for ages to manufacture my own fpv rc all in one transmitter...you know them all in one transmitters can run 500 upwards to thousands for the agricultural ones🥴i just need one to boast🤣
You sir just won my appreciation
Just found your channel Scott and i love it :D
timpos546 Awesome ;-)
I am always disappointed to throw away perfectly good components. Consequently I look for things to build using some or most of them. I even try inventing things, some of those stories are very sad.
Excellent presentation. They cal me the "Doodeldog" because in early school I would insist on doodeling objects that could work instead of listening to the lesson. I was still a great student, My real name is Don. Cheers!
Great video!
Can you teach us how to trace chips like you did?
just google the part number followed by datasheet, you will get all available info about the chip, and even info about other versions of the chip, sometimes you get a basic schematic for the more simple chips
Your videos are so helpful could you do a video of connecting the disk drive to the Arduino board or whatever board type that is through the pins so you can use disks drive
I still watch DVD’s in 2018 I also watch VHS tapes sometimes (so many recorded memories)
Took me forever but u can buy a usb to av adapter with software for converting vhs to digital format’ vhs ribbons will go bad over time and deteriorate and like u had a boat load of old family home videos’ the sucky part is u have to sit there and watch the whole thing as it records then hit stop when it’s done etc but in the end so worth it now those memories are mp4 and digital can put on sd card thumb drive etc make a dvd from files etc’ think my vhs to dvd converter was like $13 on eBay this was a few years ago prolly $20 now with everything going up’ but so worth the pay off cause vhs will go bad even just airing unused and those memories r gone for ever something to think about hope it helps bud
@@joshymcdaniel9233 thanks for the information l. I'll definitely look for this adapter. But sadly my VHS player broke I hope I'll find a good one somewhere. But yeah I have some old VHS tapes and the quality of those are really bad hopefully with a new player I can record those old memories.
GreatScott! It just so happens that I have the (almost) exact same thing. The only differences are that it is under the brand name "yukai" and it has a black plastic cover on the bottom.
How did you power the back-light? Which wires and how many volts?
This was way better than that other guy shit asking for help but labelling the video as what you can do with a tablet screen...
I have a few old GPS touchscreens for cars. I would like to see you do a video on using those as maybe a portable gaming device maybe make a portable Playstation or Xbox. Or turn a desktop into a portable machine giving you desktop power with laptop mobility. Also want to learn how to run my PC in my car
Will definitely be doing this ASAP.
Briliant.
Could this be done to a factory car nav/dvd player that didn't come with video inputs?
wonderful! I have asked quite a few computer technicians if I can use a broken down laptop LCD as a desktop monitor, and their answer have always been "no" though in my mind I knew there must be a way...
+Stephen Chen That is completely different. The answer is actually not so much a "no" as a "not easily, and if you have to ask me it means you probably dont have the skills to do it, so I will politely just say no rather than try to explain it to you".
I will however take some time to explain it, simplified.
The LCD panels in portable DVD players and other integrated devices have multiple components, one of which is a controller. This controller manages the pixel state in the LCD screen itself, which is a fairly intensive task. It decodes the input, works out which pixels need to be changed and writes the new data to the LCD bus.
A laptop panel however doesnt have this controller. The video card in the laptop is responsible for performing this task. What this means is that the LCD itself has nothing to decode the input, or change the state of pixels...Now of course you could build a circuit to do this, however it would be cheaper to just buy a screen already made with the characteristics you wanted. There are some third party products for this task, they are limited to lower color settings than you would get from a computer though..and the resolution isnt that great.
The issue largely comes from the massive data throughput needed to operate a computer display...each pixel has to be told which color and brightness to display...in the old days when you had windows 95 you might remember 16 bit color, etc...Well for us to control a HD display we would need a minimum of 24 bits per pixel. Some math:
24 bits color depth (considered "true color") Note, this mode doesnt have transparency support. 32 bit is minimum for that.
48 bit is the new 4k format, and has millions of shades of every color.
1920 * 1080 = 2073600 pixels
2073600(pixels) * 24 (bits per pixel) = 49766400 bits to show an image on the screen at minimum color depth.
The final piece to this puzzle is the refresh rate. That is how many times per second does the screen update...40 frames a second is considered nice, but 30 fps is totally ok for video playback.
49766400(bits for a frame) * 30 = 1492992000 bits per second to update a standard 1920 * 1080 panel at 30 fps with 24 bit color depth.
1,492,992,000 bits per second = 1492 mbps.
Standard adsl 2+ is around 24 mbps
Standard HDDs read at about 120 Mbps or 916 mbps
So the speed that your computer can read your hard drive data is about half as fast as you would need to run a monitor at minimum...Im not saying its impossible, it isnt...but it would cost a lot, and take a lot of time and effort..and the end result wouldnt be as good as you could get off ebay for 1/100th the cost or less.
So as you can see, it takes pretty powerful processing hardware to run an LCD panel...You would be better off trying to hack the video card. Of course that is extremely hard for a variety of different reasons.
Hope this helps
+Tyson Popynick Pixel clear :) I do know a little about electronics and does pc tweaking trouble shooting in my spare time and I still wish I could revive some of the dead legacy electronics here at home including a broken laptop with an intact LCD hahah. but very well explained I prolly have to keep things practical.
How about the original speakers? Did you use them?
bravo👏👏👏👏👏. What I was saying is an app you use can also be the details of the Sharp, for example video in
I think im old fashioned that i still watch dvds
0:15 Me.... Fuck Netflix, Blueray disks, and Redbox.
I want my Blockbuster selling plain old DVDs back!
Me. With 2.8 Mbps internet Netflix is very buff. As in it buffers alot.
DVDs are great. On the go you usually don't have enough internet to stream content and only few Notebooks have BlueRay readers.
Hey great scott great video.keep it up.
You are amazing. Love your videos.
Thanks Bro this was very useful for my project.
ohne scheiss.. geiler Typ !! haha, Danke Dir !! ich hätte null Plan gehabt, aber das eröffnet einiges ... nice
"Who watches dvd anymore"
Me, Any problem there?
Nice job!
Great video, gives me a few ideas
Very interesting videos, thank you for making them. I subscribe after the first video but found this one very interesting. I have an older portable dvd player like the one in your video, and I have a question about it. could a port be added even if I had to mount it outside of the case where a usb flashdrive could be used since it can hold several movies rather then packing several dvds for the kids to watch on road trips.
someone in 2018 ? stay creative aaand i wiiiil seee u neeext time 👏
Wow. Ty. U DA man. Man. U have made a fan out of me. Thank u again
Nice video ❤❤❤
Can we drive this setup with VGA cable as a pc monitor ?
yeah have hacked some of these and build in an C64 DTV ... the hard thing was to find small ps2 keyboards that fit in the case.
minimum 15 years ago? don't have it anymore.
One of the greatest thing about av is that it can be used as input/output.
But I have seen many laptops but they have hdmi output no input.
It can't be a cold cathode, because cold cathode is a sort of vacuum tube. This is an EL (ElectroLuminescent) pad.
Still, good video on a simple and fun project.
See a screw, remove a screw... :D
Great Scott 2014
Hi scott, your videos are just amazing how about Amazing Scott next time loll. I saw a few videos on doing a supercomputer with multiple raspberry pi 3b+ and i need your advise on it why not building one (maybe 4 or 5 pi) just to know what are the real benefits of doing that project. Is it worth the extra dollars? I would really appreciate but if u cant, maybe just give me some advices thanks
The S-VIDEO port at the beginning might be just a custom-build non-standard 3.5mm connector of this standard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video , which connector's shape looks like PS/2 mouse connector in it's normal size
hell yea. man you know your circuitry good
Awesome Video! I have got a Philips portable dvd player which I would like to mod in the same way. The problem is that I only see a video cable from the main board to the tft board which is labeled RGB (3 wires + ground). Is there a way to input composite video in that case? The main board is a "PET702 DVD BOARD".
Great video, thanks for sharing!
I was looking at using the camera from some old phones. NOT too old, say S3 or S4? I should have a Sony with a true 22 MP camera. My question is, Do these send composite signals or do you have to do some digital decoding? All hacks I find here are about removing the IR filter. Thats nice but a hi-rez camera made to fit my 4" telescope. Thanks for your time.
Tolles Video! Danke
+GreatScott! please make a video how to make a GOOD BEAMER, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME, LOVE YOUR VIDEO'S MAN!
+D-SIRE It is on my to do list.
I have one o these and its VERY simmelar!
The WHOLE guts of the disp are the same! even those shitty caps at the very left!!
Im now useing the Display for a wirreles doorbell video system (and i have vids on that)
I save anything with a lcd or led screen. I must have 10 or so old portable dvd players. And about 40 plus digital picture frames.
Great job! Is there anyway to use an iPad 4th gen LCD as a monitor?????
There is always a way. But it is not simple.
Awesome ;) czech republic thank u
This guy rocks mad silly fly, like a boss. This is exactly what the cat next door and I were looking for the other day. He said it was impossible because I was stupid. He came over after milk time to see what I was doing. "What the hell are you doing?" asked the cat. "You can't use a DSI port on the pi yet." Nobody ever told me that. It doesn't have a video-in jack. What am I supposed to do? "You should watch this one dude on the Internet." suggested the cat. And here I am.
amazing channel! subscribed!