what type of television do you play your classic consoles on

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Zing wrote:I was interviewed for that article. I assume others who have posted here were as well.
Yeah, now everyone I work with is asking me about PVM's / BVM's thanks to that article.

bmoc, welcome to the PVM club! Like you said, pics don't do justice. Here's SNES on my 20 inch PVM via RGB:

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NES on a 55" Visio. No Special Hookups and it shows.
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It's funny, because I actually didn't care so much about not using composite on my Super NES at first. It seemed to look pretty nice. Then I played Earthbound. The text in that game is very thin, only a single pixel wide if I recall correctly. This causes serious rainbow effects when using composite. It annoyed me, so I tried s-video, and the text became crystal clear.

Another funny thing I remember is playing my SNES via composite through my Apple IIc monitor. The monitor was 14" and tiny, but I swore it looked great. I used to watch my laserdiscs with it sometimes, since it had higher resolution than my TV. In some LD movies, I could tell the resolution was higher than my TV, so I would watch them on the monitor. I suspect it was all in my mind at the time. I doubt it was any better in reality.
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skate323k137
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It's probably not in your mind, monitors > TV's
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