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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #190 on: July 17, 2015, 07:48:50 PM »
Dreamcast had option for VGA and ps2 component as well. Saturn I believe later on had attachment or was made to use VGA. Not sure. Memory and interest of gaming died with the ps1/n64 for me. Slowly got back into consoles with 360 but my interest died quick after gears of war two. Don't care too much bout newer consoles much and recently had to let go of my 32" Sony CRT HDTV with HDMI input to make room so my older consoles are packed away for now till I can afford a nice size plasma to wall mount cause only way I can have TV in my listening/main room nowadays cause of having 160lb altecs,150lb jbl dual 15" sub and 170lb peavey dual 18" sub taking up most of my space lol so, I need a wall mounted TV. Afterwards I'll hook my systems back up. I still have old radioshack switch box haha I use to use as well.

But yea...I like physical consoles. Still have them since nes even though not much of gamer anymore. My g/f is more of a gamer than I am.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #191 on: July 17, 2015, 07:52:19 PM »
I think I've still got a Coleco in the basement somewhere...
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #192 on: July 17, 2015, 07:52:59 PM »
See I just can't do the originals anymore, not with their hideous 320x240 or 640x480 native resolutions. I need something that can scale to a resolution that isn't eye burning - an emulator. Running a PS1 game scaled to 1920x1080 is WAY better than playing the thing on an actual PS1.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #193 on: July 17, 2015, 08:29:52 PM »
Quote from: DaveBSC on July 17, 2015, 07:52:59 PM
See I just can't do the originals anymore, not with their hideous 320x240 or 640x480 native resolutions. I need something that can scale to a resolution that isn't eye burning - an emulator. Running a PS1 game scaled to 1920x1080 is WAY better than playing the thing on an actual PS1.

If your TV sucks at scaling, then yeah, definitely.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #194 on: July 17, 2015, 10:01:21 PM »
Quote from: maverickronin on July 17, 2015, 08:29:52 PM
If your TV sucks at scaling, then yeah, definitely.


That is true. Some older TVs can scale really well. Just hope the TV does not have that high pitch beep.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #195 on: July 18, 2015, 01:01:02 AM »
Depends. Playing old consoles on LCD/led or plasma can be very bad depending on the scalers. CRT is different. They just use lasers to adjust and render the image no matter resolution. LCD/led and plasma has to use a chip to scale below or above panels restricted resolution. It can't re render like crt . that where using things like an emulator and external GPU to completely re render the image with anti- aliasing can sharpen the image.

CRT doesn't have resolution restrictions or native resolution to deal with. Its limitations are dot pitch and refresh rate on how high of resolution they can render. I had a 3.5k professional 24" Sony cad CRT monitor that used BNC and VGA and rendered all resolutions very sharply. Only resolution looked bad was below 640x480 but, even standard TV never reached that low. My 32" Sony wega crt HDTV was amazing at rendering both standard 640x480 and 1920x1080i resolutions for all programs from coaxial to HDMI. It all depends. I never had issues with my older consoles. I just can't fit a CRT in my area even though how much I love them. I'm looking at professional plasmas cause I need something wall mountable and plasmas are closest besides dlp you'll get to CRT.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #196 on: July 18, 2015, 01:05:51 AM »
Once again, tubes WIN! :D
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #197 on: July 18, 2015, 06:59:26 AM »
Quote from: DaveBSC on July 17, 2015, 07:52:59 PM
See I just can't do the originals anymore, not with their hideous 320x240 or 640x480 native resolutions. I need something that can scale to a resolution that isn't eye burning - an emulator. Running a PS1 game scaled to 1920x1080 is WAY better than playing the thing on an actual PS1.
But then you wouldn't be able to appreciate the full glory of E.T. on Atari... (I might have that in the basement somewhere too)
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #198 on: July 18, 2015, 09:48:16 AM »
Is this audiophoolery or not?
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #199 on: July 18, 2015, 11:09:11 AM »
Quote from: Anaxilus on July 18, 2015, 01:05:51 AM
Once again, tubes WIN! :D
Can't wait to see the last tube screen smartphone !
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