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severdhed:
such hostility....

why does everyone Hate LCDs so much?  my cabinet has an LCD monitor and it looks great.....is that the problem?  do you guys want your games to look blurry and crappy?  why would anyone try to emulate the look of a CRT on an LCD? that just makes no sense...and whatever that guy was doing doesn't look like any CRT monitor that i have seen.

the LCD monitors have such a nice clean picture to them...why anyone would want anything less than that makes no sense to me.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: genesim on May 01, 2009, 11:01:23 am ---Chad Tower,

Uh no.   Those lines existed on the original display and they didn't "blend" and they weren't programmed for.  

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You didn't seem to notice that is pretty much what I said... yet on the original display they were present because of poor transmission lines from the 2600 to the TV.  The blending did exist on a lot of old TVs running 2600s as a function of crappy switchboxes.  It wasn't intended, it wasn't on all of them, but any 2600 running with a crappy TV/GAME switchbox had a blurry picture as described above.  You have to separate the display from the console here because they are separate devices not built as part of an enclosed system.

What we end up with here is that both are right to a degree - there was no color blend or blur in the software or as drawn by the hardware.  On the other hand a lot of TVs were displaying a degraded signal that was blurry.  Both happened.


EDIT:  fixed my bbcode

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: severdhed on May 01, 2009, 11:09:56 am ---why does everyone Hate LCDs so much?  my cabinet has an LCD monitor and it looks great.....is that the problem?  do you guys want your games to look blurry and crappy?  why would anyone try to emulate the look of a CRT on an LCD? that just makes no sense...and whatever that guy was doing doesn't look like any CRT monitor that i have seen.

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Don't mistake the reaction to genesim for a reaction to LCDs -- at least one of the people who has reacted most strongly to genesim is planning to use an LCD in their MAME cab.

For me, I strongly prefer arcade CRTs in my MAME boxes. Partly because that is what I use in all of my original cabinets and they should all look the same. Partly because it is part of a more authentic experience for me.

We have already seen that LCDs don't look like CRTs. Some people can't stand how the games look on LCDs. Some people don't care. Some people can't stand CRTs.

If you are happy with the way that things look on your LCD, then I think that is great.  :cheers:

Ginsu Victim:
Boy am I glad I'm avoiding this place today.

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on May 01, 2009, 11:18:40 am ---Boy am I glad I'm avoiding this place today.

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You killed the last thread. We were just wondering if it would make it through today.  You're just like Oliver in the Brady Bunch...a jinx!

 ;D

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