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Title: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: wilsonw111 on February 12, 2008, 01:20:14 PM
:clap: Hi guys,,, how ya guys seen this before ?? I guess it's pretty rare,,, and looks very nice...I wonder how much this would cost back then.. it was my first time seeing such item on ebay.
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Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Tatsujin on February 12, 2008, 01:25:25 PM
since a while there're two of them for sale in super potato for about 60'000 and 72'000 yen (US$550~700).
the release price was 79800yen (US$750).
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: wilsonw111 on February 12, 2008, 01:29:04 PM
thats crazy expensive.~~ any one of us have one ???????? I like its looks just like the Duo haha.` :clap:
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Tatsujin on February 12, 2008, 01:41:37 PM
yeah..it's a damn darn great pce related collector item. for sure one of the crown jewels. but couldn't afford it yet, due to its high price :(
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: SuperDeadite on February 12, 2008, 02:41:09 PM
My favorite Osaka based store was selling a boxed one for 40,000yen. Didn't have the money at the time, and it was gone when I went back a week later. #-o
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Necromancer on February 12, 2008, 04:30:39 PM
I've seen these on the net before but never in person; I'm betting that the screen quality is about as good as a TurboExpress (i.e. good for the time, but not so good compared to modern panels). If I remember correctly, D-Lite has (or at least had) one of these monitors, so maybe he'll pop in and shed a little first hand light on this rare beast.
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: nat on February 12, 2008, 05:24:58 PM
I'm beginning to think D-Lite was iced by his Japanese contact for not paying up on that last shipment of 852,398 games.
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: shubibiman on June 25, 2011, 11:17:31 PM
wow congrats shubibinman! this thing looks so pretty!
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Tatsujin on June 25, 2011, 11:40:12 PM
nice catch shubi :)
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: SuperPlay on June 26, 2011, 02:47:55 AM
I have seen pics of these over the years however I have never seen one in person, great little add-on.
Does anyone have any pics of the connections/psu etc?
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: GameFreak on June 26, 2011, 02:35:18 PM
Here is a good youtube video of the monitor. He starts talking about monitor at 2:33 and than shows the monitor features at about 3:20. He has a lot of great PCE and NEC hardware vids.
His last line was "it's just fuc***g amazing, thats why I had to pick it up". 8) :D :lol:
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: GameFreak on June 26, 2011, 03:26:37 PM
Does anyone have any pics of the connections/psu etc?
I think it came new with at least two cables. One of them (the one in the video) plugs into a stand alone pc-engine/coreGrafx and the second one has the yellow/white/red AV plug so you could plug that into a briefcase/vcr/consoles from other companies.
Im not sure the specs on the power supply. I doubt it is visible in that video though Im sure you could PM him.
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Necromancer on June 27, 2011, 03:48:32 AM
It's great. A little bit better than the LT's screen.
Since few of us have one of those laying around for reference, how does it compare to the GT's screen and modern panels?
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Tatsujin on June 27, 2011, 05:11:33 PM
:edit:
because I am le dumb.
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: RR1980 on June 27, 2011, 06:51:51 PM
if it's even better than the LT than it's pretty close to an actual television set then cause I remember reading something about how the GT screen can show only about 60% of what the pce is capable of and the LT screen is at about 90%.
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: shubibiman on June 27, 2011, 10:48:49 PM
So it's much better than the GT's screen. "-Oh yeah? How much better? -A LOT!"
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: nat on June 28, 2011, 04:23:55 PM
I bet it's 85% better.
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Opethian on June 28, 2011, 04:54:08 PM
thats only is its 100% new 85% of the time :D
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: shubibiman on June 28, 2011, 08:13:10 PM
No, it's approximately 33,33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333% better. I can tell you.
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Dyna138 on June 29, 2011, 01:38:57 PM
I want one =P~
Title: Re: Duo Monitor ??????
Post by: Senshi on June 29, 2011, 03:04:14 PM