/vr/ - Retro Games

With the advent of transcoders like the RGB2COMP and the easy availability of quality s-video cables, combined with the massive divide between prices of PVMs and consumer sets I just don't understand why someone with half a brain would buy one.

t. someone who sold his 14L5 for $1300. I bought that thing for $50 10 years ago and when I saw how much they were going for I couldn't sell it fast enough. I have a 2000s consumer set and couldn't be happier. Seriously if you really want something that looks like a well calibrated PVM, buy any bullshit CRT computer monitor and run an upscaler into it and that's exactly how my PVM looked. Sharp as fuck with big thick black bars between the scanlines.

low latency Oleds and scalers like the OSSC have made CRT's pretty pointless these days. And this is coming from someone who was super autistic about it for a long time. I sold my last PVM for like $1200 during covid and I don't really regret it at all.