/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4793149
Anything you can do with any other CRT, except you must accept the fact you'll want to play in a darkened room and be facing head-on to it. And probably do some work getting it calibrated since most of them you come across these days are way out of alignment. Once you've got that done you take them on a case by case basis. The older ones are basically just the same 15khz display as any old television, but a lot bigger. The newer ones are much the same as HD CRT televisions, they might have some lag due to digital processing. I've even run across SD units that had processing that couldn't be turned off and created pretty bad lag.

The good ones that have been calibrated will have true deep blacks if you feed them a good video signal, which might be a challenge if you live in the US and you are limited to composite and S-video. If you live in a country with SCART there's more potential there because RGB will let easily you get that real black. I think there were some rear-projection TVs made in the early 2000s that were both non-HD and having component inputs. If you track one of those down it could be worth doing something with.

tl;dr they have a limited usage, but a high potential.

Oh, and one more thing: be careful about burn-in on them. They can get it over time more easily than a regular CRT.

They were used in arcade sometimes. But if I were to play on one today I'd probably stick to more cinematic games.