/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6525172]

How common were widescreen CRTs back in the day? how did games look on them?

[Anonymous No.6525175]

they were present in japan and a few saturn, ps1 and n64 games supported them.

[Anonymous No.6525191]

What’s the best wood-paneled crt console? I’ve got a trinitron from the early 80’s but it only accepts RF.

[Anonymous No.6525203]

>>6525191
RGB mod that bitch

[Anonymous No.6525325]

In pal regions they were the norm. Everything got stretched.

[Anonymous No.6525328]

>>6525172
Stupid americans couldnt figure out widescreen.

[Anonymous No.6525398]

>>6525328
It's just that we were rich enough to afford, and had enough space for rear projection TV's at the time, back when they were cool

If you had the money for a HDTV why not get a fuckhueg one?

[Anonymous No.6525403]

>>6525172
More common in Japan than in the US which stuck with shitty NTSC for far too long.

[Anonymous No.6525404]

>>6525403
Japan No. 1, always 20 years in the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQsGpCDX54

[Anonymous No.6525408]

>>6525398
Jesus remember when these things were like 6 grand? And 10 years later you could get the same thing but widescreen, hi def, 1000x thinner, 100x lighter, and 10% of the price.

[Anonymous No.6525437]

>>6525408
More like 25 years. My parents bought our first rear projection TV in the mid 80s.

[Anonymous No.6525439]

>>6525404
great video, thanks dude

[Anonymous No.6525535]

>>6525403
Widescreen doesnt mean HD

[Anonymous No.6525553]

>>6525398
My dad bought our family one in 1997, cost about $4000 back then and weight 350lbs

[Anonymous No.6525573]

>>6525172
They were common here in the UK from between the mid-late 90s until mid 2000s when LCD HDTV started taking off.

[Anonymous No.6525582]

I’m trying to fix some convergence issues on a KV-2647RX. Anything safetywise I should know before trying to adjust the rings? No access to a test screen sadly.

[Anonymous No.6525592]

>>6525582

Here’s what I see, looks like some glue mainly but I only see two rings.

TV is only RF sadly, but I’d like to fix the bleeding.

Any advice or observations are appreciated.

[Anonymous No.6525593]

>>6525398
these things were so fucking bad

also i had a pal widescreen trinitron that i threw out ages ago and i kind of regret it
i don't regret smashing my shitty grundig one though, what a piece of shit

[Anonymous No.6525604]

>>6525535
Japan developed HDTV in the late 80s, 3rd world American

[Anonymous No.6525608]

>>6525592

or do I just need convergence strips

[Anonymous No.6525629]

>>6525593
Yours maybe, not mine.

[Anonymous No.6525646]

>>6525629
You talking about back projection or are you a huge fan of cheap german technology?
either way they're both shit lol
even the highest quality rear projection tv looks like total shit, see: >>6525404
they look like an lcd with the brightness on max and contrast on min
the burn in is atrocious too, i remember a rear projection point blank machine in my local arcade that was impossible to play since the attract screen was burned into it

[Anonymous No.6525667]

>>6525629
Germany made the 2nd best electronics once, before our entire entertainment product industry died. That was mostly due to the high labour costs in our country. We still are world leaders in most electronic fields, especially automotive and industry related electronics.

Can't have cars, airplanes or industrial facilities anywhere on the planet without Bosch being involved somehow.

Germany No.1

[Anonymous No.6525671]

>>6525646
>Imagine buying American products

[Father Electronics Couture No.6525672]

>>6525592
Convergence looks like a shadow. Color bleed isn't convergence it's one of the guns going out.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6525674]

Thomson RCAs are definitely a top tier SDCRT

[Anonymous No.6525676]

>>6525671
>american
japanese, you irrelevant turk, although honestly i'd rather have a phillips than anything german when it comes to tvs

[Anonymous No.6525706]

>>6525672

thanks anon. I actually turned down the brightness all the way, Put the sharpness a bit down, and turned up color + hue, seems to work well for most of the games, though text or healthbars are kinda blurry in the corners.

[Anonymous No.6525707]

Widescreen was a dirty word until 16:9 HD got cheap. People unironically used to return widescreen DVDs enraged by the letterboxing.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6525718]

>>6525706
If your set has digital sharpness it probably has convergence settings in a service menu but yeah a lot of times you can get years more life out of them if you don't push them so hard but it's time to start looking around for another one.

[Anonymous No.6525729]

>>6525403
Fucking idiot. US and Japan both used NTSC.

[Anonymous No.6525838]

>>6525729
technically japan uses NTSC-J

[Anonymous No.6525972]

>>6525729
Who's the idiot here. NTSC-J and HDTV. Burgers always stuck with shit technology HAHAHAHA!

[Anonymous No.6525975]

>>6525676
Whiter than you José. Also more developed. ;^)

[Anonymous No.6525981]

Wait why did they have widescreen crts, I thought hivison was 4:3, were they just for undsquishing widecreeen vhs and laserdisc?

[Anonymous No.6526378]

>>6525328
That Sony HDM-3830 is a real beast. Over 400 pounds, HD monitor over 30 years ago with the largest curved Trinitron 16x9 CRT, and cost nearly $100k when money was worth something. I've only ever seen one on eBay.

[Anonymous No.6526650]

>>6525975
it's learning...

>>6525404
Shut the fuck up you weeb.

[Anonymous No.6527001]

>>6525172
>Hikari was a retro fag
>had her dad's old Saturn hooked up and ready to go for friends when they stayed over

best girl confirmed

[Anonymous No.6527036]

>>6525975
are you literally admitting to being a turk then trying to claim some semblance of whiteness lol
jesus fucking christ
literal scum of the earth

[Anonymous No.6527127]

>>6525328
Despite inventing it?

[Anonymous No.6527507]

>>6525172
Eva's retrofuturism is great. DAT walkmans, film cameras with negatives instead of digital, no sign of the mobile device internet plague, consoles and CRT displays...

[Anonymous No.6527548]

>>6525592
>RF only
what a waste
does it have an OSD or teletext/CC support? some way to hack in RGB?

[Anonymous No.6527554]

>>6527507
ugh... they took this from us

[Anonymous No.6527586]

>>6527507
i don't miss buying 24 exposure film rolls which i had to finish then bring into a store only to find a blurry finger in the corner of a shot
even when digital cameras still sucked quality-wise, film cameras were dead, everything else about digital cameras was better

[Anonymous No.6527595]

>e-celeb makes a video, this time Modern Vintage Gamer
>thread appears on /vr/
Like clockwork.

[Anonymous No.6527661]

>>6527595
the fuck are you talking about, schizo?

[Anonymous No.6527707]

>>6527586
Point taken, but I do like the fact that film basically forces you to have a hardcopy that won't simply evaporate if your drive crashes without a backup and you didn't bother to print it. Think of shit like browsing through ancient family photos found at a flea market or shit that caught some ephemeral moment a century ago. You have to deliberately preserve shit now.

The "cloud" preserves stuff for a time if you upload it, but companies perish like Geocities.

But yeah, digital is very much more convenient and cheap.

[Anonymous No.6528134]

>>6527548

anyway to check?

[Anonymous No.6528137]

>>6528134
when you change channel, does it display the channel number on screen?
if it has a remote, does it have four coloured buttons on it?

[Anonymous No.6528153]

>>6528134
>>6528137
>1983
shit that's old, can't say i've used a tv quite that old before, not sure it's going to be very likely to have an easy way to get rgb into that
for most 90's and newer tv's you can hijack the chip which generates the channel numbers and teletext/CC text, since it outputs rgb
it doesn't mention CC support on the front page, which it certainly would considering it's age, since it would have been a pretty fancy feature at that point in time

[Anonymous No.6528167]

>>6528153

Ah well, when it dies I can get an overpriced PVM. For now I’ll continue to use it as my SNES and Dreamcast machine. Cheers

[Anonymous No.6528269]

>>6525328
I would totally dump my flat screen for one of those. Fuck streaming , useless apps, poor sound and energy efficiency.

[Anonymous No.6528297]

>>6525398
Those things were shit-tier. My dad's business partner owned one of those back in the mid 90s. Dude was rich as fuck, and a degenerate gambler. He showed it off like it was some incredible new piece of technology, and we all sat around with his family and watched an episode of baywatch on it that night. It was washed out and looked like shit compared to the sony CRTs we had at home. The next day I'm there with his son and we're trying to play Area 51 on it, and couldn't get it to work with the light gun, as well as daylight coming through the sliding doors making the already washed out picture nearly invisible.

Eventually we gave up, went into his room, and played the shit out of it on the CRT he had sitting on his floor.

Thank you for subscribing to my blog, and reminder rear projector tvs are trash.

[Anonymous No.6528314]

>>6528297
It's amazing how you can sell the most awful piece of technology shit if you can pass it as something luxurious and expensive. It's like those people who buy 4k huge tv's to watch DVD's.

[Anonymous No.6528361]

>>6528314
Normalfags are weird like that, it's like they're programmed that bigger = better when it comes to TVs. Best friend wants to buy a bigger house so he can have a vr and media room for a projector to watch movies on like his dad has back at home. Couple years ago I visited, and we played some vidya on his dad's setup. Blinds shut, very little light pollution coming in, and it was still washed out to the point that I could barely keep track of what was going on. I brought this up to him recently when he was telling me about his plans, and his response was "Yeah, but it's so big! It's like going to the movies".

I don't get it. I'll always prefer a smaller, high quality set. I can just move the fucking couch closer to it if I want a bigger picture.

[Anonymous No.6528363]

>>6528361
I think it had to be something related to social status. If you don't care about movies or image quality and you still spend thousands of dollars on it I don't see how else to explain it.

[Anonymous No.6528496]

[Anonymous No.6528503]

I never saw a widescreen CRT before the 00's. Saw a few widescreen rear projection tvs when I was little in the 90's but that was it.

[Anonymous No.6528517]

>>6528496
Is that the ps2 version?

[Anonymous No.6528519]

>>6525398
The only time I ever saw one of those pieces of shit was at a rich dude's house in 2000. I thought it looked fucking awesome. Who knew that only ten years later those things would be next to worthless and impossible to get rid of.

[Anonymous No.6528678]

>>6528361
>>6528363
Yea, but just because you want big doesn't mean you have to be retarded about it. The trouble with most projector setups is that the bulb needs to be replaced every year or so to keep everything up to spec.

[Anonymous No.6528820]

Oldfag here. My setup when I lived in Japan forever ago.

[Anonymous No.6528934]

>>6528820
What was 16:9 support like on the Saturn?

[Anonymous No.6529332]

>>6528934
Only a handful of games support it but it happens to be a few good ones. Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Bomber Man and Nights are some notable ones.

[Anonymous No.6529367]

>>6525172
Pic unrelated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1H6dw6Fxo

[Anonymous No.6529373]

>>6529332
Widescreen mode in those games also looks really good.

[Anonymous No.6529430]

>>6525191
I had a 17" Toshiba (pictured) and a 27" Montgomery Ward that actually took S-Video despite being made in 1989. They were both in dire need of recappping, and I unfortunately had to part with them due to moving.

[Anonymous No.6529993]

>>6529367
>pic
my mouth opened on its own wtf

[Anonymous No.6531353]

>>6529367
This had to be some dad's project for their kid, that display is too half-assed to be the work of any actual nerd.