/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4040436
>Terrible CRT and awful cables

Oh good lord. Let's just settle this once and for all.

The recent trend of using RGB(and by this I mean how popular PVM use has become as well as console mods) as a connector is something I've come to believe is simply in line with how accoustumed we have become with two things: Digital displays and HDMI. Today, we live in a world where information can be transferred to a monitor with a digital connector(such as HDMI) and be displayed with little to no loss, color bleeding, or usually none of that at all; It's digital. And it looks great too.

Only problem though... This is the world we live in today, and in the past, it wasn't really like this... You want to go back to the 2000's and 90's, particularly in North America, Composite was one of the most common video connectors. And in the 80's, that spot was held by RF. And that's what annoys me when I see posts like these... The connectors were fine. Not many people in those eras were concerned with the sharpness and color range of displays as long as it looked good enough, and one of the top measurements of a display back then was how big it was(still kind of a thing nowadays, but I'm sure many of you had at least one moment in your childhood when you were excited to be playing a game on a 30"+ TV); On a bigger TV, Composite and S-Video were blown up more and stuff like Dot Crawl wasn't super noticeable. Most of you on this particular board lived all through the 90's or earlier, so I don't feel like this has to be explained. RGB was only really something that existed in the realm of professional video production.

So... Why were we "stuck" with Composite? It was a standard that many of the major manufacturers didn't want to change from, and... We were able to live with that. We were fine with it.

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