/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2030429
>Can you fix my tv?
I really would like to do that. But i'm sure you won't like to overcome the distance to germany.
>How much do you charge?
Depending on what i had replaced, how much stress, time, mood and how much work went into it.

But what's wrong with it?

>>2030465
A TV with SCART but no RGB support is something i never encountered in my life, even that small Grundig from the early 80s had RGB on SCART and the OSD of DVB-S receiver was crisp.
Only SCART 1 has RGB, the other one has S-Video only and it doesn't look pretty at all (like composite without dotcrawl).

>>1991784
The whole internal composite/S-Video to RGB conversion seem to delay the signal (like 4-6 SNES pixels) and the TV is probably adjusted against it.
Why it's darker is quite a mystery, i don't know for sure. Maybe it's to make the inserted text/caption/whatever not so bright which is one of the major features of SCART, you can connect a decoder box which gets the composite of the currently tuned channel and could overlay captions over the TV internal composite via RGB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART#RGB_overlays_.28fast_switching.29

My personal methods to deal with these issues are:
A external box i use to center the RGB picture.
A additional terminator for my NES. (to make it darker)

Pic very related, that chip in the middle is a microcontroller to enable my hacked-in 16:9 mode via remote, i also keep switching the cables when needed and the extra venting holes were my dads idea to increase the air flow.