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| ahofle:
Yeah that's an RF modulator. It's pretty much the worst possible way to run a video signal to your TV. You will probably want to avoid that route. Personally I wouldn't go any less than S-Video for MAME purposes. Maybe you could try your local craigslist or Goodwill type stores. Used CRTs seem to be going for cheap these days. |
| Ummon:
--- Quote from: ahofle on May 19, 2008, 02:46:59 pm ---Yeah that's an RF modulator. It's pretty much the worst possible way to run a video signal to your TV. --- End quote --- You know, I remember the picture looking pretty decent back then, though. Maybe not really? |
| Mr. Gone:
Yeah, I remember it being not terrible either. Then I tried it a few years ago. It's really not bad if you're used to playing games in a snow storm. I also didn't feel like VHS was so bad when DVD came out, but it's damn terrible. Then again, the tapes are getting older as well. I sometimes wonder if the more modern advancements will seem like such tremendous leaps in hindsight, even though component and dolby 5.1 are more than enough for me at the moment. |
| Turnarcades:
I'd advise away from monitor conversion if at this stage you know nothing about it. I'd rarely advise even if you were competent at electronics. For such a cab with a broken monitor, I'd MAME it into a nice multi-game upright machine. If all you have is a co-ax input, you should get a step-down unit like we use to have in the UK back in the day. Before we all had SCART TV's, if we bought an input SNES or NEO-GEO we had to buy a converter that changed a SCART signal to co-ax. No idea where to get one though. |
| vidmouse:
Thanks for the warnings. Actually, I do have an RF modulator, but it's not exactly a spare... it's running on my family room set right now w/ an older TV that also has only coax inputs (was my wife's unit before we got married, go figure) I might just test out an s-video conversion and see how much I can stand. Probably not much. :) |
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