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Blast! Damn you CRT TV/graphics card!!!
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: ahofle on May 31, 2012, 04:29:52 pm --- The three colored RCA inputs are component, not composite.
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Yeah, so not so ghetto after all. Go that route.
05SRT4:
I ended up just going with S-video on my 24" sony CRT. The TV has Analog component but trying to get that to work was a joke for me. The s-video looks like crap when using the desktop but once I get into a game I think it looks great.
Plus with the s-video I barely had to config anything, Just plugged it in and it worked.
molton:
I believe the component red green blue connection is about the same as a vga connection but a different plug.
Amazon $3 VGA to RCA Component RGB Cable
then if you set your computer to 640x480 100Hz that should be about perfect for a TV I think.
as far as I know composite is the old school one yellow RCA plug and component is the red, green, blue plug just for the video.
Afterburner:
My first suggestion would be to get one of those converter boxes that takes the usual variety of analog inputs like standard coax, single video RCA, and S-video and outputs several of those.
However, I will relate the experience I had. I had a 18 year old 23" CRT Emerson brand TV that only had a coax input. My nVidia card had an S-Video output. So I got one of the converter boxes (about $20-$30) and it worked with no problems. In fact I was shocked to see that 1024x768 on the TV was an option and it popped right up on the TV at that resolution without any tweaking of the video modes or timings.
However, the downside was the quality of the picture was extremely poor. Text was unreadable because there was a lot of ghosting/smearing of the letters, etc. It was unacceptable, even for lowres arcade games like Galaga.
I eventually stopped using the TV and decided to upgrade my older 19" CRT monitor (which worked just fine) to a 20" 4:3 LCD. I've been much happier with the LCD.
molton:
--- Quote from: Afterburner on May 31, 2012, 08:28:33 pm ---...In fact I was shocked to see that 1024x768 on the TV was an option and it popped right up on the TV at that resolution...
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Those converter boxes downsample the video to a standard NTSC, PAL, etc video signal that's right around 640x480, I always thought games looked excellent downsampled like that, but the Native resolution with a component connection is probably as good as it will get if it does in fact work that way. It probably should.