Reply To: Kaico OSSC & BenQ EX2780Q IPS 144Hz 27″ monitor

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February 17, 2021 at 3:35 AM #45338
GlueyPorchBoy
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    You should pick monitor or TV based on your general use requirements – what’s this going to be used for most of the time? I used small flatscreen TVs as computer monitors for years because I wanted the PS2 to always be available through component inputs and… man, I wish I’d switched to an actual computer monitor earlier, at the very least to have saved myself the headaches of weird, semi-unrecognized resolutions. And on top of that, there’s clarity difference in something designed to be viewed from a distance of inches and something designed to be viewed by a distance of feet.

    I guess what I’m saying is, if you’re only going to use something for console gaming and watching stuff, go with a TV. But if you want something that’s going to be a computer monitor most of the time, go with that. You can adjust as needed.

    As for the outputs, the upscaling is happening in the OSSC, so it’s more a matter of getting your screen to treat it right. When I pull up the “Info” screen on my monitor for the different OSSC outputs, I get
    Passthrough: 680×480
    2xBob: 640×480
    3xLaced: 1280×1444
    4xBob: 1280×960

    Does your monitor (or any of the others you’re looking at) have different modes for PC and AV? Mine does, probably more for office presentations than video games, and when it’s on AV, I get the option to set the aspect ratio to 4:3, 16:9, or a screen fit. (For 2xBob, anyway, and passthrough if the OSSC’s TX Mode is set to DVI instead of HDMI – but that’s my own weirdness.) I just hooked the OSSC up to the TV I used to use as a monitor and it took every output mode like a champ. It’s a decade-old Best Buy house brand model, so make of that what you will.

    Take a look at the TV compatibility thread and see if they’ve checked out anything you’re looking at, and the master list has a few monitors on it.

    But yeah, start from your circumstances and go from there. Even when I was using TVs, the screens on my desk spent 85% on the PC and 15% gaming – but that 15% is important to me. (The Year of COVID has made the ratio closer to 60/40, though.)

    Oh, and for our purposes, treat 480i and 576i the same – the first is the NTSC standard and the second PAL.