/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6677236
It's the mask the electron beam passes through to draw the image on a CRT. Sony CRT like their PVM/BVM and Trinitron designs mostly used the Aperture Grille design. NEC would use a Slot Mask. 90% of everything else used a Shadow Mask and is likely what you actually owned back in the day. Think of it like different "pixel" types.

>>4686693
Have you tried looking at it? Obviously you need to look at it very closely and preferably on a white image. The other anon is right though, aperture grilles are blurrier than a shadow mask although this means nothing without having them side by side.

>>4072778
shadow>slot>aperture. Wrong image btw, that only compares shadow mask to slot mask.

>>3795895
wtf is a dot mask? I've never heard that used anywhere unless you mean traditional shadow mask, in which case slot mask is better for most things, idk about super low res stuff like 240p.

So tonight's experiment proved fruitful.

As you know, arcade monitors are harder to come by these days, and especially old arcade monitors. The various professional studio monitors often discussed in this thread make fine monitors all around, but to me they lack a certain air of authenticity when playing. This is due to their usually being based on the aperture grille technology pioneered by Sony's Trinitron range. Very few arcade monitors ever used this technology, instead using the more primitive dot triad type of screen.

I have a late 90s Phillips television I've posted on this thread in the past, and I have always liked it because it uses a version of that dot-triad type of shadow mask that is similar to old arcade monitors and also features a very rounded screen in all directions (trinitrons are only rounded side to side).

I have been recently playing Final Fight quite a bit and it always bothered me to see the overscan cutting off part of the score. So tonight I made the very daunting trip to the service menu without the official remote for this television. After A LOT of trial and error, including accidentally hitting the factory reset switch, I iron out all screen issues, and improved overall picture quality and geometry significantly.

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