I was driving yesterday and I spied something out of the corner of my eye.
I was on a very busy road with no place to pull over and I was not going to bother to go back but then I decided to turn around and go back.
I was pretty sure it was a monitor and it looked like aluminum on back which I thought was unique but I was driving and only caught a glimpse of it for a split second,I thought maybe it would be some kind of monitor or TV but what I found was really unexpected and rare, I would have never thought it would be what it turned out to be
I found this thing lying face down on the patch of grass next to the curb.
I don't even remember this thing and forgot it even existed, I went home and Googled the model number and found out it's 3D too!
It was pretty clean for lying face down in the grass but I cleaned it up some more and got out the Q-tips and now it looks like brand new, it even still had the plastic peel on the bottom bezel, I thought there were a couple of minor scratches on the bottom bezel but then I realized the plastic was still on it and had not been peeled off yet, so I peeled it off.
Now it looks like brand new!
There was no cord but I had one that almost fit, the kind that has one side square and one side round instead of both sides round on the female connector ,but I just forced it in.
no glasses though.
I turned it on and to my surprise IT WORKS!
After reading about this thing I found out that there was an issue with these things shutting down randomly or not powering on at all due to a bad eprom chip, and the eprom chip is out of producion now and you need a dump from a working unit to flash a new eprom chip if you want to fix it.
I still haven't tried to connect a source to it yet though but so far so good.
I am actually a huge fan of 3D and found out that this thing can be used for lots of emulators and 3D game besides just the PS3's 3D library.
I want to try and get dolphin running on my rock pi5 in 3D on it.
Eventually I will probably just hook it up to my 3080ti gaming rig.
I have a 2014 Sony bravia 3D tv that came with 2 pairs of active 3D glasses I am wondering if they can be paired to this thing or if I will have to find the original 3D glasses for it.
I really have to wonder why this thing got tossed in the first place,maybe it has an issue I haven't discovered yet especially since I haven't tested it with a source but it has 2 HDMI's so hopefully at least one is still good,or maybe someones GF or mom was just like "ok Danny I told you no more vidya, I'm throwing out all your vidya and when you get home you're gonna find it out on the curb" , "ok honey/mom", or maybe it's because it's from 2011 and they just didn't want it anymore.
Anyway I recused her and will give her a good home now.
Does anyone here have one or have had any experience with this?