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Dell 2005FPW as TV / Console Gaming Screen

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efliv

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Hey Everybody!

Just ordered the 2005 as my main monitor/DVD player/TV/Video Game screen in the bedroom. I've read a lot of posts about how the monitor acts as a PC screen for general apps and in games. But...

I haven't heard much about the screen as a TV or when used with an Xbox/PS2/GC.

The AnandTech article for the 2001FP wasn't too enthused with it's perfomance on Halo (something about too many gray-to-gray switches). Anyone played it on the 2005? How about Xvid and DivX movies? What about TV, both regular and 720p HDTV?

Anyone out there have any comments, stories, screen shots they'd like ot share?

Much thanks in advance.
 
I would be able to share my experiences with the 2005....if Dell had shipped my monitor yet, even though I ordered over a week ago. :roll:

Supposedly it will be better than the 2001FP with games since it has a 12ms gray-gray response time, but beyond that, I don't know.
 
Well... with a tuner... I think it should be a lovely TV ;-) I play movies on my 2005fp... they look great.
I play quake3 widescreen... looks awesome..took some getting used to..being wide that is ;-)

Jeff
 
i tried the 2005fpw on my VOOM HD receiver box via DVI and it looked excellent. The monitor is 16:10 however, so you will see black bars around 16:9 material unless you have the monitor set to stretch or zoom.

here are some screenshots i posted in the bigger 2005fpw thread
http://s88769421.onlinehome.us/pics/wide/voom1.jpg
http://s88769421.onlinehome.us/pics/wide/voom2.jpg

for PS2/Xbox/GC, since the monitor doesnt support component inputs, you won't be able to get the maximum picture quality out of those consoles, as well as true widescreen support. personally i havent tried the s-video input though.
 
Originally posted by: golemite
i tried the 2005fpw on my VOOM HD receiver box via DVI and it looked excellent. The monitor is 16:10 however, so you will see black bars around 16:9 material unless you have the monitor set to stretch or zoom.

here are some screenshots i posted in the bigger 2005fpw thread
http://s88769421.onlinehome.us/pics/wide/voom1.jpg
http://s88769421.onlinehome.us/pics/wide/voom2.jpg

for PS2/Xbox/GC, since the monitor doesnt support component inputs, you won't be able to get the maximum picture quality out of those consoles, as well as true widescreen support. personally i havent tried the s-video input though.
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Nice..

How did you got about the audio setup?
 
Does anyone make a component to DVI converter? Is component video a digital or analog signal? If it's analog i bet such a converter would be expensive, but if it's digital to digital maybe it would work.

Also, does S-video support widescreen inputs, i.e. can I set my xbox to widescreen mode and hook it up to the 2005 to play games in wide mode?
 
Originally posted by: efliv
Does anyone make a component to DVI converter? Is component video a digital or analog signal? If it's analog i bet such a converter would be expensive, but if it's digital to digital maybe it would work.
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Technically, it's a digital signal encoded in an analog fashion (as opposed to DVI, which is a digital signal encoded digitally). The cost of the transcoder would be prohibitive.

Also, does S-video support widescreen inputs, i.e. can I set my xbox to widescreen mode and hook it up to the 2005 to play games in wide mode?
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S-Video/composite are always 480i (640x480, 30FPS, interlaced). "Widescreen mode" in 480i/p essentially puts a horizontal compression on the output, so that when you stretch it horizontally on a 16:9 TV, it looks correct.

 
i have my xbox hooked up to my 2005FPW, set on widescreen mode.

works great, screen is filled up and everything. Only game I have played is NCCA Football 2005, so take it FWIW.

also, you gotta sit a bit further back when playing TV-res games on this monitor up close its blurry, further back its like a monet painting... everything just sharpens up.
 
I've only tried composite, and it looked horrible (of course). Tolerable from a few feet back, but still horrible. If my cable box had any other video out I'd try it.

I was thinking of trying this:
http://www.vdigi.com/ VD-Z3

It says xbox, but it has normal inputs and all, so it is obviously not xbox only. Could use it with any component video signal to covert the signal to VGA.

Nothing anywhere that is composite to dvi or vice versa so far from what I've seen (well, I may have seen something, but it was $$$$$)
 
golemite, just curious... what's your voombox pumping out, 720p? ...can't believe voom isn't scrambling DVI with HDCP!

I love my VD-Z3. It works for any HDTV source taking component ouput to VGA/DB15. Only thing is, with the VD-Z3 my 1900FP reports 720p HDTV as 960x720--That's its little trick to squish the 16x9 image into 4x3(no black boarders). It's been a while since I played with it, but don't think there's any way to pass through a true 1280x720 signal, so despite my love, this probably isn't the best thing for wide glass(fine for just xbox--480p is all you need!)

...have an old KDS KD-XB(same thing as the VD-Z3, but not as good/bright) lying around that does 'straight' 720p component to DB15. I think it'll wind up working better for me.

There're also simple/cheap cables that 'sort of' take component to DB15. When I checked them out a year or so ago not many displays could use the TV-like sync signals passed through them. I wouldn't count on the 2005fpw handling this, but if you can get one with a good return policy it might be worth a shot.

If nobody else chimes in, I'll post my take on xbox and HD content with the 2005fpw, looking hard at the scaler performance on analog.. hopefully it won't lag or artifact.
 
just in case anyone hits this old thread, I was wrong... found the VD-Z3 works great with the 2005fpw. It IS running at the TRUE 1280x720 for 720p, NOT reducing horizontal res to 960--guess it was just my old monitor.

Be sure to set the transcoder to sync RGBs, not RGBHV. RGBs looks excellent for 480p and 720p. Strangly it runs ALL HD RGBHV signals, including 1080i, but does suck a horrible job(720p and 1080i washed out FAR beyond monitor's ability to adjust with on screen controls) it's useless.

480p looks good with either sync.
 
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