Not a console, but is this a decent hackable item for $40?

spike · Post by **spike** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:59 pm

Philips AJL308 LCD alarm clock with speaker, tuner, SD slot and USB slot, decoded DIVX, etc?

http://www.consumerdepot.com/products.a ... rer=google

My first time posting, so be gentle with me!

-joe

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:07 pm

I highly doubt it.

Unless there are composite inputs inside.

jjhammerstein · Post by **jjhammerstein** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:08 pm

The screens that are most commonly used are ones that already accept analog input.

If that tuner is a TV tuner, it might be useable as a screen, but if it's just for radio, (most likely) than it can't be of much use.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:31 pm

Digital picture frames often have really low resolutions and refresh rates. That means no moving images without blurs or washed colours.

As far as resolution goes, check it out. I think we're talking something like 640 x 320 max resolution. Many I see, sadly, are less.

I would avoid it.

gameboy fixer 77 · Post by **gameboy fixer 77** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:30 pm

i would highly advise to avoid that at all costs.

TAFKA_Cennar · Post by **TAFKA_Cennar** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:01 am

yeah... I'd love to just sneek into a radio shack or the source. just smash open every LCd housing and raid one big pile of unsorted screens. leave quick enough to confound mall police and do the dirty work at home. that would be able to settle this argument. point the thread in the right direction. short of that if its one those card reading ones there is a chance that it MIGHT do the job. the same time... has any one even taken one of these apart, a lame picture frame thing. some have composite deals and every thing. this like pocket lcd thing I found last year worked so poorly as a convenient substitute for film in a slide projector. even the screen bit was a dim mess. I just ate 6 pop tarts, am I going to die from all the metal in these things one day. just check on whats in these things. I eat copulate pop tarts every time I get high. yeah you dont know what the insides are like, dont buy it.

jackfb13 · Post by **jackfb13** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:41 am

Cennar your posts become very random at the oddest of times.

dont buy the alarm thing.

TAFKA_Cennar · Post by **TAFKA_Cennar** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:05 pm

jackfb13 wrote:Cennar your posts become very random at the oddest of times.

how do you mean?

jackfb13 · Post by **jackfb13** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:11 pm

^ pop tarts.

HazmatB · Post by **HazmatB** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:23 am

I have seen this in person, and the screen looks really lousy (low contrast, a very washed out screen), I wouldn't recommend buying it.