Is it safe? Hooking up a Sega Saturn console to a LCD 1080p.

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Is it safe? Hooking up a Sega Saturn console to a LCD 1080p.

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I just bought a Sega Saturn console off of eBay. I have a SAMSUNG LCD 1080p HDTV television. Is it safe to connect a Sega Saturn console to this TV or would I risk damaging the it?

If it is okay to connect it to that TV, what are the best capables to use to get the best image quality possible from a Sega Saturn console?

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I've never heard of a TV being damaged just because an old console was hooked up to it. :?
I use the cables available from Racket's store. The picture looks pretty good.
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i dont see any reason why not! i have my snes, dreamcast, genny, ps2 and computer all hooked up to mine and i have no probles!
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Well if it was a plasma you could have worry of burn in, but even with that it would be a trial.
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Yeah you could burn in if you left a game on the title screen for about.....2 years......constantly......there's really no risk involved here.
Somebody sell me a model 1 modchip for Saturn. Please.
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HoboJoe wrote:Yeah you could burn in if you left a game on the title screen for about.....2 years......constantly......there's really no risk involved here.
Most HDTV's have screen savers to prevent burn-in as well. ;)

EDIT: I guess I shouldn't have said "screen saver," they just show "No Signal" appearing from one side of the screen to the other (similar to the WinXP screen saver).
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Post by shallowgamer »

Funny thing- as I was reading the manual for my LCD TV, it warned me not to leave an image on the screen, for it may BURN IN. I thought I bought an LCD so that it wouldn't burn in. Of course, this manual is not the greatest technical masterpiece in the world.
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Re: Is it safe? Hooking up a Sega Saturn console to a LCD 1080p.

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Its fine to hook it up mine looks good with S-video.
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Re: Is it safe? Hooking up a Sega Saturn console to a LCD 1080p.

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I was amazed when I went to play NiGHTS again and realized it had a widescreen mode. In 1996?! Although I've yet to try it out on my hdtv, I need to get to that.
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