Which is better for playing PS2 with?A PC monitor or a TV?

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Hi,i need to ask a few things.Is there a way to play PS2 on a PC or play PS2 with a PC monitor.I currently cannot play my PS2 in the living room now since my nephew has started crawling (and who knows what he will do with my stuff.....) and wanted to play so badly.Is this a good idea or maybe i should just buy my own Tv.

And can i have some of your opinion.What Tv do you use to play your video games now...i'm too poor to buy a LCD TV or HDTV.I was thinking of buying a 14" flat panel TV.So anybody here knows which TV which is cheap and could play future consoles without the picture breaking up?(but anything under 24" would be okay)Any suggestion/criticism would be greatly appreciated and i would thank you in advance if you could solve my problem :)

sorry if this was posted somewhere else.i just didn't realize it.....
 
Yeah,thanks for the reply.This thing sound great at first but then the problem is i need that Xploder HDTV Player to actually make the thing work.It was close but i just wanted i direct connection to the monitor....
 
I tried one of the really cheap Composote/SVHS to VGA adapters in order to connect my PS2 to the monitor -And the one I tried sucked... Hard. I ended up putting a cheap Pinnaclesys TV Card (PCTV Stereo, believe it's called "110i" today) in my computer which worked beautifully.
 
Just want to say to always use CRT monitors for PS2. 480i through LCD looks like crap.
 
Omnis
Just want to say to always use CRT monitors for PS2. 480i through LCD looks like crap.
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Actually - I was quite surprised at how good the PS2 looks on our HDTV. I was expecting graphics in the C64 class, but Tekken 5 actually looks pretty darn good. I'll see if I can convince my camera to take a usable screenie !...
 
Flerbizky
Actually - I was quite surprised at how good the PS2 looks on our HDTV. I was expecting graphics in the C64 class, but Tekken 5 actually looks pretty darn good. I'll see if I can convince my camera to take a usable screenie !...
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Interesting. I have to play all of my sports ps2 games on the CRT because the motion blur is painful. It's so hard to see what the hell is going on in Winning Eleven.
 
Agreed 👍 GT4 on our 32 inch Toshiba doesn't look half bad. On 710MP it looks dreadful though. But that's mainly because it has an awful tuner built in.
 
Omnis
Just want to say to always use CRT monitors for PS2. 480i through LCD looks like crap.
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It's not the resolution or being interlaced (unless the display doesn't do accurate deinterlacing). It has to do with the quality of the original source, converting an analog source to digital, and how the video processor adjusts the signal before it displays it.

One reason you might see a degradation of the picture quality when going from a CRT to a digital TV is that if the signal is analog, such as from a PS2 or from non-digital TV broadcasts, it must be go through a A/D conversion which will often result in a loss in picture quality, especially with displays that do not have high-end D/A converters and video processors. This is why some LCD displays do a much better job with analog SD and interlaced signals than others.

However, just to show how well a LCD, or any digital TV can display a higher quality 480i source, set your DVD player to output in 480i only and unless you have some problems with your display, or if it has a very poor deinterlacer, the picture should look excellent. Not nearly as good as HD DVD or Blu-ray or any native HD source, but still excellent in terms of SD DVD quality and very close to what a typical CRT direct view TV is capable of.

While games may be "480i" in no way do they compare in picture quality to 480i DVD movies, and with the realitively poor picture quality of 480i games, it makes it that much more dificult for a digital progressive scan display, like LCDs to properly display those types of signals.

Now if you really want to get the best possible image, then Sony's $20,000 professional line of 20-32" CRT HD monitors absolutely cannot be beat in terms of picture quality, and will put to shame all digital displays... but that's a lot of money for a small TV. :)
 
Oh yeah,I forget to tell you guys.I'm using a TFT LCD monitor (LG Flatron L1750SQ) is it going to be as "bad" or even worse than a normal TV? and if it could support my PS2,does it support 480i?
 
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Oh yeah,I forget to tell you guys.I'm using a TFT LCD monitor (LG Flatron L1750SQ) is it going to be as "bad" or even worse than a normal TV? and if it could support my PS2,does it support 480i?
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Likely a good deal worse. The L1750SQ was a very bare bones entry level 17" LCD monitor that came out nearly two years ago. LCD panels have improved quite a bit since then, especially entry level TVs. It also has only one input, an analog VGA.

Looking over the lab results from X-bit Labs basic test report on this unit, it looks like it suffers from very poor gray scale tracking (means it wont have very accurate colors), and its contrast ratio is only 200:1 (which means a lot of detail will be lost in dark and bright images), and it has very poor black levels. All three of these key specs will be far better even with a very basic CRT monitor.

In addition the L1750SQ is not very bright at only 250 cd/m² and has a relatively slow response time of only 12 ms, which could result in a good deal of motion blurring for fast panning images. It also has a large dot pitch, which isn't good, and the wide pixel gap is going to show a very noticeable screen door effect.

Personally, I'd suggest picking up a used 20" CRT TV for $25-$50 for use with your PS2 as it wont cost much and your games will look a good deal better on it than that specific monitor, and you wont have to deal with a VGA adapter and the problems of compatibility
 
Okay,thanks for the advice.I didn't know my monitor suck that bad....oh well,so much for using my monitor....but i did notice that my monitor isn't that bright compared to other monitors.But i don't really care about my monitor,as long as it is working,i'll have to do with it.....
 

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