Camcorder LCD

makuraken · Post by **makuraken** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:30 am

Ok guys, I am currently in Japan as an exchange student (from America) and I have access to just about every version of every system ever made (some have never seen American soil) and at great prices (less than $20 for the small PSone).
Either way, I just scored a free super famicom (SNES) and a sweet Sony Carl Zeiss handycam that the powersupply is junk. I want to take this LCD screen from this handycam and use it for the portable SNES (or anything if I can get it to take composite connections). I thought it would be easy but after taking the beast apart and looking at the cards and stuff I have one thing to say.... what the crap do I do?
Its like 2 tiny parallel port that goes to what I think is the LCD control card. I need a way to figure out what is for power and which is for video. After I find out video, how should I plug it into my applications? Also, it seems that this LCD screen runs off the battery directly which means that it is a 7.5v (maybe) LCD or that the board has its own converting devices.
If people would help me troubleshoot this stuff, I could then write up on how to use all camera LCDs and thus we may find a cheaper way to get great LCDs (junked cameras, about $5).
Model number of the camera is DCR-TRV10
If you need pictures I think I may be able to do something, just ask where.
Thanks (if you are really helpful, you may get a Japanese gaming system).

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:43 am

If it has the power going right into the lcd controller than it has a voltage ragulator on the board, probibly a 7805 or a simalar LDO. If it has one of the two follow the lead to the input of power. As for the video signal you either have rgb or conposit, the only way I can suggest to kno which is which is to see how many wires it has going to the video input.

Good luck on you project, I'm sure when your done you'll have something they'll envy for sure.

makuraken · Post by **makuraken** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:21 am

Ok here is the page with the pics from what I can grab off of my mobile phones camera function (if your wondering japanese phones kick so much better ass than anything in america at 1/5-1/10 price or free).

Sorry about spelling errors and such, I made the page in about 7min including time to take the pictures from a cell phone camera, email them to my hotmail, then save and repost them on my own webpage (which I just started about 5 minutes ago). I apologize but affer advanced thanks and praise to anyone who helps.

http://www.geocities.com/johnmccrackenfiles/LCD.html

-alt- Copy and paste

http://www.geocities.com/johnmccrackenfiles/LCD.html

Thanks again. [/url]

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:44 am

sorry you cant but if your in japan just get a psone screen and what are these never before seen systems?

makuraken · Post by **makuraken** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:56 am

JackFrost22 wrote:sorry you cant but if your in japan just get a psone screen and what are these never before seen systems?

First, why am I unable to use this LCD?
Secondly, Panasonic has a 300 multiplayer game thingy out surprisingly called ``300 Multiplayer``. There is also a Super Famicom (SNES) CD-disk system, another thing out here is something called the 3rd Version (looks like a SNES and a Genesis had a child), and a computer system something PC (like an Xbox but a came out a little after SNES), something called WonderSwan/ WonderSwan Color/ WonderSwan Crystal (Gameboy like but made by SNK I think GB/GBC/GBA respectivly), an SNK console, and the last thing I can think of is a strange system that seems to have died the day it came out (because its only about $3) and there are no games for it. I forget its name but the controller is bigger than the bigger sized keyboards and it only has about 5 buttons with a joystick.
So there you have it! The question and an answer (to a different question).

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:59 am

The controler board is built of the camcorder not lcd board

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:37 am

Well if that is the case, you just killed a couple hours old topic. But other people may write something that they may know (a way to make or buy a control board or something). So I hope that this is not dead!

makuraken · Post by **makuraken** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:38 am

Sorry that last ``guest`` was me. I forgot to sign in. Sorry!

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:41 am

it would cost like $80 to buy the controller board better off on a pocket tv hip geqar screen or psone screen

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:43 am

Well, one of my freinds has an old sony Handycam and when I was over at his house I Hooked up a Super Joy 3 (Pirated Nes) through the Handycams video output and turned it on so that you could wach the movies you had recorded and instead of putting a tape in the handycam I turned on the Super Joy 3 and the lcd displayed the game's picture! (I don't know why it worked for us, but it's a good place to start.

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JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:46 am

the controller board is on the camcorders motherboard not the lcds so you need to fix the power supply and have the whole camera in your portable

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:52 am

PS: makuraken I want a Famicom (Japanese Nes, duh) For my great help...(and because I have some Famicom 3D glasses!)

*Edit- Well you could chop it down quit a bit (a lot of the stuff is just needed for recording.)

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:57 am

but a lot of its packed tighly and there are many traces.

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:02 am

I was talking obivious stuff like extra button controls and the lens and tape recorder part ext.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:05 am

The buttons are probably also used by the lcd

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