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I'm looking at the yahoo.co.jp auctions and a toshiba screen goes for about 40k yen ($400 usd)

eg http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f72604289

(to replace one in the MFD with broken pixels or whatever)

but I found this

http://store.earthlcd.com/SK-3021-SK3021

for $92 USD which is the same model screen, with some basic frame and power attached.

So I'm wondering if I can't just buy the $92 unit and extract the screen, then I'll have my MFD

replacement ? The PDF from toshiba makes it look identical:

http://www.earthcomputer.com/public_html/d.../TFD58W30MM.pdf

whatcha think?

Good find I've been trying to find an equivalent for a while, I think for the cost difference it's worth getting one to try there won't be much to it from a technical standpoint...if anything but plug n play

Give Chris Rogers a PM and get his opinion.

Good find I've been trying to find an equivalent for a while, I think for the cost difference it's worth getting one to try there won't be much to it from a technical standpoint...if anything but plug n play

Give Chris Rogers a PM and get his opinion.

Well, for $92 usd, I figured it was worth a try so I ordered one and when I get it, I'll rip off the

added circuitry and find out very quickly if it does the job or not.

Stands to reason they should be cheap. I imagine in 2000 they were hot stuff but now they're

almost disposable at that resolution.

  • 1 year later...
Did this ever work? I am looking for a sharp replacement for my Sharp MFD screen, model Sharp 6L-U7WJ

The toshiba panel works, if it replaces a toshiba panel.

A buyer with a Sharp panel bought one and said he thought he could adapt it. I can't remember who he was, I'll look in my email box. Perhaps he achieved his goal.

Anyway I still have some left, if anyone has a toshiba with vertical lines or dead, in an MFD.

email me, almostfreecoogee .. gmail.com

Edited by moneypit
  • 4 weeks later...
  • 7 months later...
Looks like the GTR's after 00 have the Toshiba screens and the 99 models have the Sharp screens, from what google tells me.

Cheers for that. I'll do a bit more research and see if I can confirm.

  • 2 years later...

I have a working Sharp unit in my '99 V-Spec N1 Chris.

I've been given the upgraded Nismo unit which adapts it seems, to the Toshiba wiring.

I'm in a conundrum here.

You're not resolving the same issue are you?

Not quite. I have a full sharp mfd unit in my possession. I am going to yank the video portion off the sharp screen and adapt it to another screen.

Still working out how the video generation is done at this point in time.

Looks like the screen board does the video conversion and that is dropped to a second board on the LCD panel itself.

I will have the scop out tomorrow and start deriving signals. It looks like the sharp LCD panel takes raw video and 'RGBS' and processes it at the LCD panel.

Will know more tomorrow.

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