TVs

[genesisguy]

My 1982 Montgomery Ward TV looks like utter crap lately. I can't afford a high def or flat screen TV. What size, type, etc do you use and find the best bang for buck for gaming 8 and 16 bits?

[Joe Redifer]

Maybe it is time to step up to a nice 1987 Sears TV.

[Zebbe]

I use a Philips fat TV. It looks great. The new TVs don't work very well with old video games.

[TmEE]

28"+ CRT with (half)flat screen and RGB SCART inputs is the way to go... Philips kicks ass, I have one too, actually 2

[17daysolderthannes]

yeah, speaking of this, what is the ideal size (inches) for video games PSX and before? I've heard 20" and that sounds about right. What size are most arcade monitors (talking back in the day when arcades still had joysticks, not Phantom Menace Racer 5,000" megascreens)

[Iron Lizard]

I second the Philips suggestions. Mine looks awesome and it only cost me $60. My PlayStation games look awesome thought the component.

[mick_aka]

2002 32" Sony Trinitron 4:3 CRT

Literally the best picture I've seen out of a MegaDrive or Saturn, both through RGB SCART

[kool kitty89]

Flat screen CRT TV's are great, and they work with light guns! (unlike most LCD and Plasma TV's it seems)

Phillips is good, my family's had good experience with Sanyo and Sony too. Before that we had pretty nice Sony tv from the early '90s, it lasted up until about 4 years ago when the screen gave out. (the whole thing went rainbo colors like the whole mask had been deformed by a magnet)

If you get a new TV, make sure it has S-Video, oddly some just have stopped offering it despite having component video and composite.

2002 32" Sony Trinitron 4:3 CRT

Literally the best picture I've seen out of a MegaDrive or Saturn, both through RGB SCART

Gah, don't taunt us with your RGB! Us poor Americans are stuck with composite (unmodded), while all you guys have to do is go buy an SCAR cable...

[evildragon]

Maybe it is time to step up to a nice 1987 Sears TV.

OMG I have one of those! "LXI Series" 13". It was and still is, a rather nice TV.

[Rusty Venture]

I would rock games out on an early 90's Sony Trinitron...preferably a 27".

I played SOR2 on my parents 27" some years ago....the characters were like 4" tall...which was jawusum beyond jawusum.

[jerry coeurl]

Trinitron's fucking rule. I want one!

[Flygon]

I have a 21in TV made by TCL.

It looks beautiful, even with composite. The chinese seem to do everything right.

My mother owns a flat screen 32in widescreen CRT TV made by Hisense and stuff looks brilliant on that too, but in general, any CRT TV between 17in to 42in (There is such a monster) should do wonders as long as you arent using RF. ^.^

[kool kitty89]

I would rock games out on an early 90's Sony Trinitron...preferably a 27".

I played SOR2 on my parents 27" some years ago....the characters were like 4" tall...which was jawusum beyond jawusum.

That sounds about like what we had, I think it was a 27" (or close to it) '90 or '91 model. Did those have S-Video? We had ours a good 15 years before it gave out. (and it may have been fixable, but we felt it was time for an upgrade)
It had an interesting remote, like 2"x5" with a sliding panel on the front bottom half as the battery door. (with the batteries coming out the front rather than the back) I think there may also have been some extra buttons under the pannel.

Nice TV though.

I think it looked a lot like this one:

The side handel in particular I remember.

[WarmSignal]

If I may ask... why does everyone prefer old CRTs again?

[Iron Lizard]

Because old games look the best on them.