Were the early LCD monitor and TVs awful for retro gaming? How long, in your opinion, did it take for them to improve in terms of responsiveness and color reproduction to become suitable for proper gaming?
>>11516485I still have a Dell LCD monitor I use as my main PC monitor.
Yes, and people still used them because it was new technology. If you want to ask someone that actually knows about display technology go to >>>/g/ but they are likely to mock or ignore you for not doing this basic research on your own. Nice thread by the way
>>11516485There are some early 4:3 LCD TVs with a native 640x480 panel that are pretty decent for playing certain consoles on.
>>11516485I have a 4:3 panel from the early 2000s. It's low res and 60hz, but other than that it's no worse than your average modern monitor. It's not like it has insane ghosting or noticeable latency. Plus it still works and is as bright as ever all these years later, all my modern gaming monitors die the day the warranty expires.Still wouldn't use it over an old CRT monitor, I mainly just use it for fucking around with old PCs for convenience.
>>11516510What's the resolution on that bitch?
how come chinks haven't done a 4:3 high res oled yet? It'll be the perfect candidate for a crt replacement>but you can actually ignore the black bars on these panels because they're self lityeah i know but they're still there.
>>11516579Idk the brand name but I saw something in the handheld threads before that has a 4:3 LCD at 1920x1440 for perfect integer scaling on most stuff. Never seen a large 4:3 modern LCD though. You can find 5:4 which is close enough though.
>>115165102007fpb is very good for retroThis is crysisPS2 also look amazing on it
>>115165571280x1024
>>11516613it looks worse than a newer LCD for sure. The inputs are cool though if you just want to plug an old console up.
>>11516485They're all worse than a CRT but significantly better than some walmart special (or, god forbid, a Vizio). My ~2007 LG has eight inputs: two component, two composite, two TV tuners that can each do analog and digital, one VGA, and one HDMI. Its speakers are fantastic, and it respects an input signal's aspect ratio (no mandatory stretching). On the other hand, it's noticeably laggy, and its picture is, by modern standards, atrocious. The most variation you'll see is in terms of lag rather than picture quality: I have a syncmaster 710mp that handles its input processing like a champ, but its PQ is really bad.
>>11516510That is very close to the first PC monitor I ever had. You could get a CRT or LCD and LCD was cool and futuristic so we sprung for that one. Even back then I knew the picture itself was nothing special especially compared to my friend’s CRT monitors, but it was really fancy in 2002. Our family was late adopting a PC so we didn’t get one until 2002 and we had dial-up until 2004. A Dell Dimension 4500, such a glorious piece of shit. I was 10 years old.It had a 60gb hard drive until I got tons of viruses trying to download free music and fat girl porn. It corrupted the hard drive until I only had 40gbs of space.First game I had for it was Sims Deluxe, bought with the computer. Magical game. First game I downloaded was “South Park Super Mario Bros” which I think was a virus if anyone remembers that one.Bought plenty of games for it even though I preferred consoles. It actually ran the original Far Cry. I used to be so pissed I couldn’t play Battlefield 1942 on dial-up. It was a slideshow when I entered a server until I lost connection. By early 2005 I had fucked it up so bad we had to get a new one and got a Dell XPS. Now that was a beautiful machine, and anyone who owned one was a decade ahead of everyone else on the rotten rgb trend.Thanks for the nostalgia trip.Does anyone know exactly what the model was for Dell LCD monitors in 2002? I’m pretty sure it’s the one this anon posted but I want to be sure.Crazy how are memory degrades over time because I spent a lot of time with this bastard.
A bought a used early lcd that was 4 3 aspect and it was ass
