Post everytime you get ANYTHING retro. We want to know (^v^)

[speedlolita]

I'm gonna be running Saturn/PlayStation/Mega Drive into it. But yeah, I'm just being silly. I've considered one of those but straight RGB will do me for now until I can either find a nice 15khz monitor (Philips CM8833), a nice Trinitron or a PVM near me.

[Duddyroar]

Ha! There's not much in it, not enough to fath about with old CRTs.

WOT NO SCANLINES?

Seriously though, although VGA upscalers and scanline generators are bloody fantastic, you still cannot beat the genuine CRT look.

[speedlolita]

That's what I'm talking about.

[mmmonkey]

I reallly really really love my scaler with scanlines. But when I'm testing something out upstairs in the spare room with a portable CRT, it does still look so much better. wish I never had to part with the 28" 4.3 CRT. I think I miss the curve of the tube also (don't some emulators try to do this now also?)

[sj33]

I must admit, I'm not a fan of curvature on CRTs at all, we forget that it was something that manufacturers were constantly trying to reduce. Hence, CRTs became flatter as we entered the 80s, and then 90s.

Scanlines however, were accepted as unavoidable, hence game developers utilised them with in-game special effects, effects that tend to look odd on LCDs without using scanline generators.

[noobish hat]

I must admit, I'm not a fan of curvature on CRTs at all, we forget that it was something that manufacturers were constantly trying to reduce. Hence, CRTs became flatter as we entered the 80s, and then 90s.

Scanlines however, were accepted as unavoidable, hence game developers utilised them with in-game special effects, effects that tend to look odd on LCDs without using scanline generators.

[tokyochojin]

WOT NO SCANLINES?

Seriously though, although VGA upscalers and scanline generators are bloody fantastic, you still cannot beat the genuine CRT look.

Dude, are those your underpants on the radiator?

[vanpeebles]

Scanlines are something that I never really liked so I don't miss them

[Jay]

Dude, are those your underpants on the radiator?

haha

[Duddyroar]

Dude, are those your underpants on the radiator?

They're my 3yr old son's vests! Not guilty!

My shreddies are well out of shot...

[egparadigm]

Scanlines however, were accepted as unavoidable, hence game developers utilised them with in-game special effects, effects that tend to look odd on LCDs without using scanline generators.

Can you give an example?

[Duddyroar]

Can you give an example?

I don't think they intentionally used effects, the fact of the matter is that low-resolution graphics (where you can pick out individual pixels) tend to look better when scanlines are applied.

It's just one of those things, like toast always falling butter-side down and night following day.

[speedlolita]

Baffles me that someone can not like CRT screens.

The ONLY thing I like about LCDs is the geometry control.

[Duddyroar]

Baffles me that someone can not like CRT screens.

The ONLY thing I like about LCDs is the geometry control.

True, dat.

[speedlolita]

Where can I get a CM8833. ;_;