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Re: Lightgun hacks, mounted guns ideas, and RF to VGA suggestions?
04/15/14 06:25 AM
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> > either way my tv's are both RF only input so I gotta either get an RF modulator > with > > a vga port, or go RF>S-Video>VGA. Which option would have better picture quality? > > Probably the RF modulator, less conversion steps. But both are going to be shitty! > > Anything is better than that, probably even VGA to composite. Can't you visit some > electronics recycling facility or salvation army store and pick up a cheap CRT TV > with higher quality inputs? > > What TV has RF input only?? Both my old CRTs have composite, S-Video and even > component inputs..and I live in the third world in the middle of a field. > > Then of course none of the reasonably modern video cards in two the PCs in the house > have analog TV-out, I'd need to break out my old 9800 GTX+ again > > S
Anything "retro" up to the mid 1980s when the BNC/RCA connectors started appearing - you have to have a woodgrain TV set to go with your woodgrain Atari.
I went one further though, and my one had everything up to a PlayStation 2 hooked up to it until it finally died in 2003 (the whole screen went bright red, couldn't be bothered fixing it since I had much later TVs around - the woodgrain set was a 1981 AWA/Mitsubishi). My choice of RF unit at the time was a Samsung VCR however, the only consoles I had which I had to tune in (due to the lack of an AV plug) was the Atari and a Master System II, the rest plugged straight into the AV ports at the back of the VCR.
As for analog TV-out, my Radeon 9550 has S-Video alongside the normal VGA and DVI ports - and I can go the other way with a 1999 PCI TV card (S-Video/RCA/RF/Coax inputs), which doesn't support digital TV at all! Of course, Australian TV is digital-only these days so the tuner is useless beyond recording old video games.
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