Best way to play HDMI Or Composite?

sirhenrythe5th

RetroRay

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.

ohmycommodore

@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.

sirhenrythe5th

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? 🤔

davej

@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.