17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
5:11 p.m.
What about the CRT 'viewfinder' from an older cam-corder.
These actually use tiny CRTs!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <THX1138 at dakotacom.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: ISO: Sony "WATCHman"
John Foust wrote:
At 05:57 PM 8/16/2006, Don wrote:
Really? I hadn't realized that there was such a "common
failure mode". But, I am unsure of what you are describing...
Is the lower third of the display a "solid white band"?
Or, is the *retrace* visible on the lower third of the
display (i.e. the correct image is present but with a zig-zag
line "scratched" through it)?
I'm looking for a working Sony WATCHman (NOT
*walk*man)
for a wearable I am hacking together.
I know that mine, like those of many others, has suffered some sort
of erosion of the interconnect to the video display, and has a white scan
line running across the bottom third of the display. On the other hand, if you just need a
composite-in video LCD, those are
cheap and not rare these days.
I was hoping to find a monochrome CRT instead of an LCD.
Color isn't a requirement. Monochrome LCD's are poor quality.
And LCD's impose a certain resolution on the display
contents. The watchman was the only *tiny* device that
I could think of that fit the bill :-(
Do you have a pointer to anything worth looking into?
Small/tiny?
Thanks!
--don