Fudoh's ode to old display technology

[koopatroopa90]

Generally I'm not fussed about this sort of thing but that Pioneer looks pretty awesome, CRTs are just too bulky but that would be easy to accommodate.

[speedlolita]

My only concern is how awful the image looks on early plasma displays.

Although these appear to be professional grade Pioneer screens so maybe they're a cut above. Pretty cool to have a 40" flat display that supports 15kHz regardless though.

[nakamura]

I really don't get the love for CRTs. My eyes have taken a right battering of them over the years and I wouldn't have another one given regardless of how good it was.

How have your eyes taken a battering?

[speedlolita]

RF/composite.

[Jamie]

Shouldn't have looked at that, now searching for one of those Pioneer screens.

[Decider-VT]

You jammy gits!

Haha, I've been looking for one locally for years.

Indeed- I've been looking at 15" screens with native 640x480 resolution for shooting games for a while now but I never thought I'd end up with one this big. Just need to get a stand for it now- ideally some sort of non-tacky cantilever that'll allow me to TATE when necessary. Absolutely cannot wait to see what the Saturn and DC look like on this screen.

[speedlolita]

Not to mention it supports 480p.. VGA DC action.

[Decider-VT]

Oh yes. VGA box is primed and ready. Really want to see how things like the D&D Collection look too. Quite tempted to invest in a supergun in future...

[Colin]

Looking forward to these turning up in the morning, just hoping the RGB scart to BNC lead turns up too though!

[Colin]

Mixed results so far. PC-Engine looks brilliant, but only via VGA through the XRGB-2, it won't recognise it direct from the scart to BNC lead? Which to be honest I don't mind as the XRGB-2 lets me add scanlines. NEO next, also looks phenomenal, again no joy with the scart - BNC lead though.

REALLY difficult to get a pic, but the PCE:



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Pics aren't doing it justice to be honest, it looks fantastic. I'll pop in to work tomorrow and get my good camera to try and show it better.

[speedlolita]

Hmm, that's strange indeed..

[Colin]

Haven't got too much time to play about with it as we're off to a gig tonight, but with the retro stuff the screen is black though you can see a shadow of what should be there. The Panasonic Q shows, but isn't great. Like I said, happy to keep running the XRGB-2, though I suppose the whole thinking was I shouldn't have to any more. Maybe it's the fault of the scart-BNC lead?

[speedlolita]

May just be the colour values are off. May need some caps in the SCART to BNC..

[Colin]

Having a 40" 4:3 panel I can chuck in to tate mode this easily is definitely going to be an absolute winner!

[acidbearboy]

Oh man, that looks totally awesome. What's the picture quality like via RGB scart and VGA?