I definitely find myself hankering for a 4:3 monitor - I don’t care if its CRT or not, but are there any 4:3 LCD monitors that have a decent dot pitch? I’ve been spoiled by modern LCD tech and late-stage CRT tech - all the 4:3 LCD screens I see feel fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy.
L, too, want to plug in anything L want…
I really miss the last generation of tube TVs to the early flat panels. Electronics of that time knew what I was about. They had composite ports on the front so that you could bring your PS2 over to your buddy’s house and play Guitar Hero all night. It worked. And you could trust it to work.
I hate smart TVs and when my current "commercial signage TV that’s not a smart TV but it still really wants to be connected to the internet* dies, I’m just gonna buy a monitor or do without.
I have a great Samsung tv that has all these ports. It’s maybe a 2015?
The lag is noticeable on the old games… Anything I can do??
If you aren’t aware already, most TVs have a dedicated “Game mode” that helps to sync the video and audio and reduce visual delay.
Motion interpolation seems to be the main lag culprit.
Makes it look like it’s running at 120fps. Plays like it’s running at 20.
Switch that off and most modern 4K TVs are basically a monitor.
This won’t really help for really old analogue stuff though. Nothing will. It still needs to get the whole image before it can display it. Best you can do there (short of original hardware and a CRT) is emulate and use runahead to get a few frames back.
My modern 4K TV has an AV input, unfortunately, for anything below 480p I need an upscaler.
