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    Best way to play HDMI Or Composite?

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    • InsecureSpikeI
      InsecureSpike @Capeman
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      @capeman said in Best way to play HDMI Or Composite?:

      @eldrethor And not only that, the zune specific cable is dead sexy! its probably the nicest looking AV cable i've ever used and the cable is very flexible, i was very impressed.

      hey, do you have any links for the zune cable?
      thanks

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      • CapemanC
        Capeman
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        Everything can be had on ebay
        https://www.ebay.com/i/182653454444?chn=ps&dispItem=1

        Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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        • InsecureSpikeI
          InsecureSpike @Capeman
          last edited by

          @capeman said in Best way to play HDMI Or Composite?:

          Everything can be had on ebay
          https://www.ebay.com/i/182653454444?chn=ps&dispItem=1

          that's awesome, thanks lots

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            drake999 @RetroFreak89
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            @retrofreak89 If you want the authentic experience for console generations 2 through 5, you will want a CRT TV with composite video. This will reproduce the look and feel of the games pretty much as they were back in the 80's and 90's. If you favor a crisp picture over nostalgia, then HDMI is the best way to go. It really comes down to preference. I've always used HDMI, but I'm starting to see the appeal of the authentic experience.

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            • RionR
              Rion @drake999
              last edited by

              @drake999 I would recommend

              RetroTINK-S, RetroTINK-C and RetroTINK-RGB

              Or

              Pi2Scart

              over composite any day.

              FBNeo rom filtering
              Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
              Fba Arcade Bezels
              Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                drake999 @Rion
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                @rion I wasn't aware of that things existence but yes the S-Video option would be a better choice than composite for sure. Probably a good choice to use this board if you are building an arcade cabinet to.

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                • sirhenrythe5thS
                  sirhenrythe5th @drake999
                  last edited by

                  Just for interest as far as original Arcade cabinets are concerned:
                  Were those Crts in the cabinets also connected to the pcbs/system boards with RGB or S-Video?

                  Its a long time ago that i saw the original cabinets as a kid, but i have got the Impression that this picture, that i have with my Pi simply connected to the CRT with composite, seems to be close to the original.
                  I remember that the shadows of sprites were flickering and the picture was kind of blurry.
                  I liked it! 😊

                  So has there been a high-quality-technoligy in the cabinets, or are we going further away from the genuine experience by boosting up the picture with S- Video or RGB?

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                  • DorkVonWaterfallD
                    DorkVonWaterfall @sirhenrythe5th
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                    @sirhenrythe5th

                    RGB, 15 kHz, 320x240

                    01001110 01101111 01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01110011 00100000 01101001 01100000 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01100010 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100001

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                    • sirhenrythe5thS
                      sirhenrythe5th @DorkVonWaterfall
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                      @dorkvonwaterfall thx for Info!

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                        RetroRay
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                        I use my retropie build on my sony BVM CRT with a vga hat connected with a vga to bnc cable. You could also use an old VGA CRT PC monitor (you could find one pretty cheap on ebay). it looks awesome! scanlines an all. I don't think I could ever play 16 bit or 8 bit emulated games on an HD tv. It just looks gross in comparison i think. I was thinking about picking one of these up. although alittle pricey it would make it super easy to get the best picture quality on any U.S. manufactured CRT TV, Since most consumer grade CRT's in the U.S. never adopted SCART. Although I haven't tested myself the pi2scart or RGB-Pi seem like nice solutions if you have a scart connection on your crt.

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                        • ohmycommodoreO
                          ohmycommodore @DorkVonWaterfall
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                          @dorkvonwaterfall I assume by RGB you mean what we used to call in the TV biz "component"? The three separate cables for R and B and G? If the original cabinets were indeed hooked up that way, then additional hardware that enables RGB certainly becomes more interesting.

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                          • sirhenrythe5thS
                            sirhenrythe5th @ohmycommodore
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                            And furthermore: did really ALL cabinets use RGB?
                            I read a documentary about Atari recently and they wrote that Nolan Bushnell hired Marihuana smoking Hippies at the start to dissamble cheap Radio-Shack Televisions which were used for their Arcade games.
                            Also RGB? 🤔

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                            • davejD
                              davej @sirhenrythe5th
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                              @sirhenrythe5th Keep in mind that all colour CRT picture tubes are driven by separate RGB signals going to the electron guns. TVs decode a composite signal into separate RGB signals before amplifying them and passing them onto the electron guns. Given the technology of 1970's TVs, it would be relatively easy to modify a TV to accept your own RGB signal rather than use the one it generates from a composite one.

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