/vr/ - Retro Games

The secret was getting them back in the early-to-mid 2010s when they were more readily available and scalpers hadn't gotten them all. Nowadays its impossible to get one for a reasonable price unless you just get really fucking lucky finding one locally that's somehow still sitting around at a hospital/studio/liquidator. But you'd probably need to spend so much time going around to different places and rolling the dice to find anything that doing so wouldn't be worth your time either.

The good news though is that they're not necessary. I love my PVMs but you don't NEED one. Nowadays there's plenty of information on how to mod a bunch of different consumer sets for RGB, or you can get a transcoder if your TV accepts component. Is the TV line count as high? Is the image as sharp and perfectly calibrated? Well no, but we're talking about free (or nearly free) vs hundreds for a 13" or potentially thousand(s) for something 20". And you'll never be able to get a professional monitor that's a nice size like the 27-36" consumer sets.

pic-related is my sega genesis through an RGB-to-component transcoder into a 27" consumer trinitron. I think that's plenty good.

>>8456541
of course, even then the actual look of aperture grille phosphors would vary by size of the tube and different TVL counts. For instance pic-related is a 27" trinitron as well. The look is different because the TVL count is higher on this model and because bigger screens result in more distinct scanlines

That's not what sanic looks like on a CRT

>>8315587
I haven't recommended a PVMeme since many MANY years ago back when you could get nice big ones for cheap. I could never understand people paying hundreds of dollars for dinky 8-13" screens. They used to be the cheap alternative to the expensive framemeister, but that's clearly no longer the case.

consumer CRTs are still free and you can use component (or do an RGB mod) and it will still look beautiful

>>8260563
Not entirely true. Even with RGB it's just a fundamental properly of CRTs that lit-up phosphors are NOT pixels and there aren't squares with 90 degree angles, instead the "pixels" are more rounded and shaped differently depending on things like the luminosity