Tv in mame cabinet=blurryness ?

[DcMaN]

I recently put a 24" sanyo tv in the cabinet, and ever since windows is very blurry, it is very hard to read text. The tv has component input 480i. Right now i have it hooked up to svideo, im wondering if i change it to a component wire  if the blurryness will decrease ? Or is there something else i need to do? Games seem to look OK, however it is hard to see what game you want to play due to the text being blurry. Is there anythign i can do to fix this ?

[mrserv0n]

I could be wrong but any tv has pretty low resolution I had a 31" for a while and it was blurry, now I have a 60" and its very blurry, just for text though, but my 42" plasma looks supreme, I guess thats price you pay to have a real monitors resolution.

[DcMaN]

damn thats what i was hoping you wouldnt say . Think it would be worth it to use a DVI > component cable ?

[Hoopz]

I have a 27 inch tv and for my purposes, it looks good.  Windows is blurry, but thats just a part of it.  I use GameEx for my front end and I can see everything quite clearly and it looks sharp.  I use a Tron theme with GameEx.

What front end are you using?  A guess would be Mame32 since you are talking about picking games from Windows.  Most of them look great but Mame32 isn't going to look good on a 24 inch tv.  You may check the wiki for different front ends if you are using Mame32.

[DcMaN]

ill keep that in mind, i havn't exactly set up a frond end yet, because i was debating on what to use but ill check out game ex it looks pretty cool.

[Anubis_au]

Component video would also look better than S-video. If you can output component, I'd do it.

[AwesomeAlbert]

make your font bigger.

[severdhed]

TVs suck for displaying windows, it is just that way.  you'd be much better off using command line mame and a nice frontend like MALA, and avoid windows all together.

[DcMaN]

right now, i installed game ex, and the blurryness has faded for the most part. However Is there anyway i can tell Game EX to start up as sooon as windows starts ?

[tba]

you can either just copy a link into your "startup" directory in the all programs folder, or run your FE as a shell

try http://tomspeirs.com/gameEx/Shell.htm for info on doing this.

good luck

[Minwah]

TVs suck for displaying windows, it is just that way.

True...but they ROCK for use as a standard res arcade monitor IF they have a scart input.  That way they effectively are an arcade monitor.

Of course I mean CRT TV's...

[severdhed]

if you want to have gameex load at startup, that is as easy as placing a shortcut in the startup folder, however people will still see that you are running windows.  if you want to completely hide windows...the wiki is very helpful


http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Hiding_Windows

by following these steps, you can pretty much completely disguise your system so nobody even knows it is a regular PC.  load your front end as shell and the desktop never appears at all. 
i havent tried it with gameex, but it works like a charm with MALA

[Jeff AMN]

Once I set Windows to 640x480, I didn't think it looked too bad at all. Sure, the icons and such were huge, but I only use Windows to launch my front end anyway. The games look spectacular on the set. I'm using a DVI --> Component adapter though.

[Green Giant]

I found windows looks pretty crisp on my tv using component.  At first it looked terrible, but I changed the background and all the folders/font to a black-green design.  Now I can read everything without the white burning my retina.

[SirPeale]

And of course, the lower your resolution, the better picture you'll see.

[RayB]

Anything higher than 640x480 is pointless on a standard TV.

[xmenxmen]

Anything higher than 640x480 is pointless on a standard TV.

I am running svideo to a 25in rca tv and think it looks just fine. 

[Green Giant]

Anything higher than 640x480 is pointless on a standard TV.

It is typically impossible on a standard tv.  Hi-def can handle it.