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WhereEaglesDare:

Thanks, that does look really sharp... So what are the options for a CRT to have RGB and not be a arcade monitor and be around 25"??

Has to be CRT for me to use GunCon2...

Epyx:

Sony Trinitrons are good like the  KV25XBR etc

Do a search on Craiglist or Ebay etc.  You can likely find one for $100 bucks or so with Component and VGA.

Craigslist


Interesting article on an RGB mod for this TV which i am reading now:

XBRAmigaRGBMod

DJ_Izumi:

Personally, I'd opt out of a TV that had it's manufacture in the mid 80's. :X

But agian, my prefered games date from like 1996 and up and run at higher resolutions than the older stuff.

Epyx:

Here is one last comparison. I found a component picture (one I took on my first cab after I had switched from S-Video to Component) and took the same shot of the same game (Rygar) on my Arcade monitor in native RGB.

First of all the component picture is noticeably better than the S-Video one (ill try to get one up on a separate thread). Notice the differences though even between Component and RGB when people say component is as good as it gets in North America when you don't have RGB you realize just how drastic the differences are:

- Much better colour saturation
- Image isn't compressed (TV out image is compressed horizontally)
- Colours are much sharper and more vibrant (yellows and reds in particular)
- Text is crisper
- Sky actually looks like a blue sky
- Cliff shading isn't washed out and the mountain in RGB looks much better
- Look at the range of green in the RGB from the left grass/trees to the right now look at the component

Again this is component compared to RGB not S-Video...with S-Video there is even more contrast.  This is the only reason I brought up my initial reply, not to be an arse but to question the people who make statements like "S-Video is almost as good as RGB"...sure just like horseshoes and hand grenades are both items you can throw.  :o Ok...THAT was an arse statment ;)

Component Rygar


Native RGB Rygar



lizzyjakers:

There is a big difference on a TV-out circuitry quality in video cards. The video cards could accelerate the images, and it produces a higher quality of the media. You should always be reminded of these ideas.


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