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Retro Gaming/Audio/Video Discussion

By Crash

8 years ago

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#10 8 years ago

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Quoted from girloveswaffles:
Projecting an image on a "Flat" CRT is a lot more complicated than a standard CRT. The beam has to be focuses differently from the edges to the center of the screen because there's less curve, the center is closer than the edges are to the electron emitter, so the set is constantly adjusting the focus as it scans. That's why it probably doesn't look as sharp.

Thanks for the tech explanation on this. I'd rather have the flat screen, but the focus thing is super annoying..

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#30 8 years ago

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Troubleshooting monitors is a bitch, it's why I got out of arcade games.

Troubleshooting TVs is ten times a bitch, because of all the extra circuitry to do stupid things. Take it to your local mom and pop tv shop, do them a favor. They'll probably have it fixed pretty quick, and you won't have to spend 500 bucks trying to find a rejuvinator that's been obsolete for 20 years, or deal with hazardous voltages yourself.

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#43 8 years ago

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Quoted from Crash:
Ok now this is pretty friggin' cool. Someone has managed to (successfully) mod an old CRT TV to accept RGB over a VGA connector. Granted it's a set that has s-video but RGB is, according to pretty much everyone, the ultimate holy grail of inputs. Think arcade monitor quality. Basically what he did was disconnect the RGB lines going into the jungle IC on the chassis board for OSD text and short out 5v to the blanking pin.
http://mikejmoffitt.com/wp/?p=284
I freaking hate composite. This is all my cheapo Kmart TV has. I may get bored one day and try to hack in an s-video jack...!
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?120515-Anyway-to-mod-a-TV-to-take-S-Video-or-RGB

That is just f'ing rad....

#45 8 years ago

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Waaaaay beyond my skill level. Cool, but I ain't going to be doing it. I don't even have any RGB modded consoles as is.

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