What is your TV setup when it comes to games?

Personally, I have found that HDTVs make anything Wii and anything similar look like crap, even if you have a decent HDTV. Personally, I have my HDTV for my PC and 360, and a normal TV for my older games.

Also, has anyone noticed a drastic change in graphics when changing TVs. Wii games look like crap on my HDTV, and look managable on my Apex. However, I just upgraded to a somewhat recent Toshiba 27 inch that only supports 480i, and it looks great. MGS: Twin Snakes looks far better then it did on the old TV and doesn't have as many graphics issues, and everything just looks nice and crisp.

 

21" CRT for old consoles, 24" Dell 2407WFP for 360 (via VGA for 1080p niceness) and the wii on the lounges 42" plasma, were it looks very good as its a very, very high quality one - bought a few years ago for big money!

 

I have three set ups:

Monitor with VGA box: PS2 (for ocasional Taiko fun), GC and PC.

29" Sony Triniton CRT TV: Neo Geo AES, MD1 + 32X, Saturn, Super Famicom.

36" Sony Bravia 1080 LCD TV: Dreamcast, Wii, PS3, Xbox.

 

20" Toshiba CRT circa 1998.

 

A bog standard 28" bush widescreen for MD, Sega Saturn and N64, all through RGB scart of course. I get a great picture from it.

My 360 and Dreamcast are connected via VGA to my 19" HPw1907v flatscreen TFT.

I'm detecting an incoming PS3 for christmas, which will sit in the lounge on the 50" 1080p HD LG TV.

 

2 x 19" monitors for PC related gaming
46" HDTV for everything else

 

A cheap 13" TV. I don't play games much

 

I don't know, the Wii looks mighty fine on a 50" HD LCD projection tv (does 1080p)... PS3, 360, and N64 hooked up to it full time as well, PS2 and Sophia temporarily at the moment.
In my room, I've got the rest of my systems hooked up to a 32" LCD HDTV (does 720p), I've only used the xbox on that one thus far, but it looks rather good.

 

21" Widescreen LCD for Xbox 360 via VGA and then I also use the PS2 and Xbox via Component on it. Then I have a 19" Sony PVM RGB monitor to play older games on either via RGB or Composite which looks better than the LCD no matter what. Really unless its 480p it's going to look like ass on the LCD.

Anyway, I actually sit in a room surrounded by 3 monitors. PC, Xbox 360/Xbox/PS2, and RGB Goodness for Saturn and Super Famicom.

 

I now have a 36 inch widescreen HD CRT set. Does full HD yet stuff like the Wii look great on it due to it being CRT. Even my Super Famicom and Mwega Drive look fantastic on it !

It'S sad but in the future when all the CRT TVs die we'll be forced to put up with the shite image that comes from flat pannel HD TV sets :crying:

Just why can the makers of these TVs made one that can produce a decent image for none HD equipment?

Yakumo

 

I've found that LCDs are far less forgiving than CRTs when it comes to input signals. Whereas a CRT will be happy and look fine with composite or even RF, put that on an LCD and it'll look pure shit. Component or bust. My family made the mistake of picking up a digital cable box, and got the 'new' cheap one with no Svideo or digital audio out, so it looks like crap. Not to mention that theres no suchs thing a SD widescreen in North America. Widescreen = HD. Grr. On the flip side, I can't watch CRTs for more than 30 mins because the flickering kills me, I get migranes.

 

not the big luxury at the moment, but will change that soon :nod:

 

360 through VGA (soon HDMI on an Elite) on a 21" HDTV....and thats my only TV. Pretty sucky for old games, but I did just get a VGA Box for my Dreamcast, so maybe that will help.

Otherwise, I go to my moms and use there 32" CRT with S video. There's also a 27" flat CRT with S video/Component in the living room. Nice, NICE for old stuff. No RGB or whatever it is that kicks ass, but it looks badass to me.

 

I have
samsung 32 1080p Widescreen LCD for playstation 3 xbox 360 Elite nintendo wii

MITSUBISHI MEGAVIEW 31 VGA/RGB for sega dreamcast ps1 ps2 xbox mod for play any arcade and console emulator
sega saturn atari jaguar pcfx neogeo cd neogeo aes nintendo 64

ACER 22 Widescreen pc monitor for pc games

 

Got enough PC-Engines Tatsujin?

CRTs can last a long time and you can service them to keep em going longer. It'll be quite some time before they can't be found anymore. Esspecially since they are cheaper than any alternative.

 

Damn that NeoGeo cabinet getting in the way Need to find somewhere to put it hah. Not sure of the exact screen size, Ive been working on getting it setup the past day or so (Ive had the projector for a year, this will be its permanent setup I think). I know I could go bigger, but I ran out of cloth..plus its a good size...

 

Sorry, guys... pwnage time:

Toshiba(?) trisynch arcade monitor. Supports 15khz, 24khz, 31khz. So, I can play my Cave PCBs, weird 24khz PCBs (System24: Crack Down, Gain Ground), Dreamcast via VGA (Ikaruga!!!) or whatever the fuck else is out there as long as it's playable through VGA or 21-pin RGB natively. Then there's the fact that there is no 15khz CRT on the market that can match the clarity of an even decent arcade monitor. The one downside is no internal speakers. So, I have to tap the audio off of the RGB cable. Not an issue for the Super Gun as it's got external audio out. Same w/ the DC VGA box. But RGB off of a console like the PS2, MegaDRive, SFC etc will require an audio tap.

Still line doubles though, right? Why not run those games through an XRGB-2 and throw up some fake scanlines? You'll have less signal loss running through the XRGB-2 even w/o scanline simulation.

Your PC-Engine LT needs a bath!

 

pssst! Your TV is the wrong way round...

 

23" Samsung HD LCD tv that does 480i/p 720i/p 1080i for my 360 and wii and a 19" Acer AL1951 crystalview screen for all my pc needs. My study is very small so i can't fit a bigger screen in here sadly =/

 

I think that would mean it's facing backwards.