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 Jul 15 2006, 05:40 AM
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Well, I was surfing the net at work and I came across this Blaze PSP on TV adapter it essentially uses a high quality camera to take a continuous feed of the psp screen. Unlike the other psp to tv adapters, it requires no hacking. I know that the zaurus and psp have similar batteries and all that this hooks into is the battery plug and the rca plug... Do you think with a little hacking around this could work with the Z? I've always wanted to use my zaurus with a monitor... and a tv screen would be the next best thing.
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Jul 18 2006, 09:04 PM
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I think the optics may be setup wrong for the Z, as the PSP has a 16:9 screen, but the the Z has 4:3.
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Jul 19 2006, 12:19 AM
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true but as long as the Z's screen is smaller it shourd display somthing. if it puts black bars at the top and the bottom to display 16:9 on a 4:3 sscreen you will be fine hawever if it just chucks 16:9 at a screen then you will get some distorsion
if you can get some pics i will have a quick look however instintinct tells me it sould work if the screen is the right size |
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Jan 18 2007, 04:09 PM
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Has anyone tried one of these with their Zaurus yet?
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Jan 18 2007, 06:21 PM
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Looks cool. Unfortunately Lik-Sang went out of business, so you will probably have to look for a used on. The are a couple of the PSPonTV's up on eBay (PAL) for around $36. Not bad. I am going to keep an eye out for one of these. I bought a number of items from Lik-Sang. Great company, but constantly treading the hairy edge of IP and Copyright. Looks like this place has them for $60:
http://www.superufo.com/review_html/Review..._adapters_.html I would probably be willing to give it a shot unless someone sees something that definitely won't work. Confidence is not high on getting my Colorgraphic to work to the point that I can hook up on the road and do work. If you want a test pilot, I will pick one up after the 1st of the month. |
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Jan 18 2007, 06:59 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Virginia, US Member No.: 3,563 |
Then for another $80, you could convert the TV signal to VGA.
 Would probably look *great* 
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Jan 18 2007, 07:04 PM
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QUOTE(Ling @ Jan 19 2007, 12:59 PM) Would probably look *great*  and also look BIG  I'll probably get one next time I go to Hong Kong... |
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Jan 20 2007, 08:18 AM
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Looking on eBay, there are used Nyko Play on TV devices for $19 with reasonable shipping. For me, ends up being about $27 deliver in US, DC area. I imagine that all of these devices will function the same, just different features. May be better to experiment with a cheaper one, particularly if we may want to perform some *modifications* on the device.
 BTW these are BIN auctions and I am not affiliated with nor have I ever purchased from the seller.
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Jan 20 2007, 01:39 PM
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QUOTE(Fushnchupsh @ Jul 15 2006, 02:40 PM) with the Z? I've always wanted to use my zaurus with a monitor... and a tv screen would be the next best thing. thinking out loud, why don't some of these high-end multimedia TVs have a VNC viewer or rdesktop client built in, so that they can allow you to have the full PC experience using just a thin client? Hmm, I wonder if a vnc client for xbox or xbox360 would solve this problem. |
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Jan 24 2007, 12:47 AM
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because it wouldnt be considered "simple"
however if you hooked it up with avhai or zero conf then it wouldnt be too hard to have a list that you could navigate of all the devices that advertise "vnc", i know my home PC adveritses some services (sftp for one, than you fedora for having that set up by default) anyway i think a TV should just be a display adaptor, move the smarts into somthing that can be upgraded independitnly actually an xbox with xbmc is one of the best media devices i have seen, add in an x server and a bash script and somthing like this could be whipped up in about 30 lines of code. actually this sounds like the "bulldog" secure pc idea |
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Jan 24 2007, 03:09 AM
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QUOTE(Da_Blitz @ Jan 24 2007, 09:47 AM) actually an xbox with xbmc is one of the best media devices i have seen, add in an x server and a bash script and somthing like this could be whipped up in about 30 lines of code. actually this sounds like the "bulldog" secure pc idea xmbc? I love it... just upgraded to the latest version - 2.0.1. it does run a web server which is quite effective for remote control. If only the xbox had USB2 and you could attach a dvb-t adaptor, it would be magic! |
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Feb 23 2007, 04:35 PM
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QUOTE(Ling @ Jan 20 2007, 11:18 AM) Looking on eBay, there are used Nyko Play on TV devices for $19 with reasonable shipping. For me, ends up being about $27 deliver in US, DC area. I imagine that all of these devices will function the same, just different features. May be better to experiment with a cheaper one, particularly if we may want to perform some *modifications* on the device. BTW these are BIN auctions and I am not affiliated with nor have I ever purchased from the seller.Well, got one. Some surgery required. I got a pretty good deal. For the $19 I got the Play on TV and a PSP accessory kit with a lot of PSP stuff. I am going to have to take the hacksaw or something to the Play on TV in order to get it to fit well on the Z. I will share my results once I have the mod complete. |
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Feb 23 2007, 04:52 PM
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I eagerly await the results!
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Feb 23 2007, 06:03 PM
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*chomping on bit*
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Mar 5 2007, 02:40 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,156 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba Member No.: 6,127 |
I'm dieing here, Ling!
What's the scoop? |
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