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QXGA LCD Panels now cheap ... good enough for variable resolutions?
Posted by: Gorgonops on 2019-12-17 09:18:34
I bought it from this AliExpress seller, best stay away from it. 🙁
Yuck.

Something I didn't mention about that cheap-o LCD/Scaler board combo I bought on eBay: the eBay listing I ordered *that* from proclaimed it was "NEW", all-caps. Actually, no, the LCD panel I received with it has the worst burn-in I've ever seen. It looks like it might have been harvested from some sort of in-flight entertainment system or something, no idea because reading Chinese isn't a skill I possess, but if I *could* read Chinese then I'd have no problem whatsoever telling you what was statically displayed on it for probably *years* straight.

The seller pretended to be very apologetic and there is a replacement in the mail, but I have this feeling that when it arrives and I discover it's just as ruined as the last one I'll be filing an "Item not as described". Watch yourselves out there, kids.

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2019-12-17 10:23:38
Checked out his pages for what he described as his "getting long in the tooth" RM5251.

The only real hits I've found in a quick search was a used one for $30 and in the "Related Items" available on Alibaba.

Posted by: Bunsen on 2020-04-28 21:21:36
I recently bought a super-cheap LCD/Scaler combo that uses a Realtek-based scaler chip that's ridiculously widespread in the cheap boards. I've done digging on the "RovaTool" software mentioned a lot in this guy's posts
Great find, Gorgonops.  I'm reading up on his tools to see if they'll do the job for me.

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