I remember the day when i bought my first big flat TV.. It was almost a year ago...I was so happy back then. Especially when i saw that there are many many sockets for me to connect my beloved consoles... But guess what. Just like in many other cases, with other peoples Flat TVs, mine too wasn't flawless. My N64 connects & runs flawlessly, same goes for my Super Nintendo. Sega Saturn though connected either via Svideo cables or Scart is not recognised from my TV. Same goes for Dreamcast connected with scart. How could they be so shitty and make the tv not support some systems. Newer=Better. Isn't it what it's supposed to be like? Yes... But apparently for some Companies it isnt. Why include that many friggin sockets (almost ten in my case) when they aren't working with certain systems? I mean whats the point? I opened this thread even though i dont expect my problem to be solved. I know a thread like that existed, but i dont like digging up dead threads. My TV is a 32LG3000 and i want to stab it with a knife and throw it outta the window. Discuss.
for me the best TV for gaming systems bar PS3/360 is a CRT EDTV (480p). The wii looks great on my WEGA through component, and even the NES looks spot-on with its RF
projection TV? that's a vague way to describe a set. A projection set could be ANY set that makes images appear using projected light, ie anything from an old-school rear-projection home cinema, to a CRT, to a projector. EDTV means Enhanced Definition TeleVision and its a term used in most places, notably except Australia where even 480p broadcast are dubbed "HDTV". Effectively this means that any set capable of reproducing 480p is an EDTV/HDTV (AUS). I prefer to use a CRT EDTV for the many advantages that CRTs offer, despite the huge weight/size drawback. PS: CRT= Cathode Ray Tube. This means it uses one or more electron canons to depict an image by quickly projecting the image by way of horizontal scanlines.In the case of EDTV CRTs, ~480 lines fully present at any given still frame of a motion image.
A friend of mine has a Wega 1080p CRT. Best TV ever. Even at 32 inches, it is unfortunatley probably permanently going to stay in his basement. Forever. You can BARELY even slide the thing on it's stand. Everything looks spectacular on it, the color is amazing. I've got a Toshiba flat CRT I bought new a couple years ago, it was the best 24incher I could find. I've got a PS3, which is a bit of a bummer to play on it... especially when there's a 21inch CRT monitor on my computer that I could be using if there was more space to put it... But anyways. I've been contemplating an LCD HDTV (probaby in the 25"-32" range) for quite some time now but simply couldn't even fathom how much I would miss my CRT, especially considering all I play these days is SNES, Saturn, and my MVS.
I have a 20 year old Sony Trinitron XBR which is incredible!! a 5 foot tall 37 inch monster with.....well.......just look how many effing inputs!!!!!!
The 15khz signasl will look like ass-turd anyway. Get an XRGB2, or keep a CRT. I have both since I'm such a bitch.
My CRT TV can do up to 1080i but was a right pain in the ass with the XRGB. Many times it wouldn't even detect the box and when it did there were a few picture issue problems due to the actual TV. Low resolution software looks really shite on my TV as the TV tries to run it in 480p. Even after manually selecting "Natural" mode which is 480 interlaced (The TV's lowest resolution by the looks of it) it still looks ass. The crazy thing is that with the Saturn some games look fantastic but any game running in the Saturn's lower resolutions look really bad just as with the Dreamcast! The Mega Drive looks so bad via S-Video that it makes composite look like RGB! I have no idea why anything 16bit or lower looks worse through S-Video than composite on this TV. Yakumo
I don't know what the problem is with most LCD/Plasmas but my LG plasma displays any console I trow at it just fine! be it RF/Component/Composit/Svideo/Scart/RGB you name it. Allthough I must admit that old consoles look better on my Sony CRT.
