>retro gaming
>og hardware
>sony trinitron or pvm
>aperture grille
THIS IS NOT RETRO! No one played on a CRT with a aperture grille. 99,9% of all people had some CRT with a shadow mask.

>>714357094 (OP)
>No one played on a CRT with a aperture grille
My 2004 Trinitron was bought new back in 2005.

>le grille
what the hell is le grille?

>>714357094 (OP)
Leave it to autists to strangle the joy out of anything with "optimizing"

>>714358407
Proprietary display technology for CRTs developed by Sony. They ended up licensing it out to some other manufactures near the end of CRT production.

>>714357094 (OP)
Yeah! And co one played with that clean consoles, either! They were always a bit dusty, bit greasy, with gunk and worn out sharpie marks!

I'm using a JVC TM-H1700G because all my childhood televisions were thrown away by my boomer parents and I got the former security monitor for free when my workplace "upgraded" to lcds. it makes me look like im a faggy retro retard but whatever.

>>714358407

>>714357094 (OP)
I have had a sony trinitron for 20 years but it's a monitor
The other one is a flat panel samsung tv, it looks pretty good

>>714357094 (OP)

>>714358828
thx for posting this image. Several years ago I told a friend of mine (big retro freak) that all his games look weird on his Sony PVM and he got really angry at me.

I just use whatever tube TV, I don't really care. As long as I can sit at a decent distance from the TV it's good enough for me.

>he doesn't game on a pvm-4300

>>714357094 (OP)
Huh? We had a Sony Grand Vega Trinitron
Hell we STILL have one my mother still uses it every day

>>714359130
2001 CRTs are not retro CRTs.

>>714359286
Anything made before I turned 12 is retro, sorry that's just the rules

>>714359286
crts are retro
even if it came out in 2023

>>714357094 (OP)
Who cares? Jusy play with you shadow mask set and continue to enjoy the more authentic """retro""" experience. Or you can get an RF set and enjoy the actual retro experience of playing old games on an ass display. You know, because it is the authentic experience...

>>714357094 (OP)
the retro gaming faggot is you

>>714357094 (OP)
Not everyone is a nostalgiafag who wants to recreate their childhood. I, for one, just want the highest fidelity possible.

>>714359345
You need to be 18 to post here.

>>714360105
If that was true, you wouldn't be using CRTs anyways, since that is a deprecated technology. You'd be using a proper OLED TV.

>>714357094 (OP)
how do i know if my tv has this meme tech? i bought one a couple of years ago but i currently don't have the space to set it up

>>714360625
Does your CRT accept HDMI inputs?

>>714360457
There is no "if that was true." It is true. The glow of an OLED if different from the glow of a PVM. For pixel art, I prefer how the PVM looks.

>>714360313
2001 was 24 years ago anon
I'm 32

You're 45

I dunno what any of what OP talks about means, I just use my old crt and enjoy my games.

>>714360792
no it doesn't. it says trinitron on the front though

>>714357094 (OP)
I like shadow mask too, but there's no need to lie. Trintrons were popular.

>>714362410
Trannytrons are only popular now because of le playstation. No one owned that shit in the 80s and 90s except japs

>>714357094 (OP)
I use a small consumer grade CRT similar to the one I had in my bedroom as a kid, and I connect everything over composite just like I did for literally everything until HDMI came along.

Pic related is my collection, but it's an old pic so it looks a bit different now. Collection has grown a bit, and I've changed up the shelves to improve space.

>>714362564
I had one in the 90s, liar.

>the screen is so reflective it acts as mirror
and people say CRTs have good blacks. LCDs ironically have better black levels and contrast in normal lighting conditions simply for having less reflective coating.

We get it, you play emulators on a Steam Deck! Some people will pay extra to preserve their hardware, want RGB, and higher TVL count. You wouldn’t understand if you grew up playing on LCD.

>>714362564
I had one in the late 90s and after we replaced it for the main room it was what I used for gaming. Stay mad cunt

>>714363120
>in normal lighting conditions
I have to draw my curtains halfway to even see my TV during the daytime. I just bought it 6 months ago so it's definitely modern. I can see the TV with the curtains open but fuck me if I'm playing a game and the scene of the game is night time or somewhere dark.

filters are good enough for me

>>714363890
luv mega bezel

>>714363890
Nothing wrong with that. At least you're actually playing the games, better than letting them rot on the shelf alongside your CRT that you never touch.

>>714362940
>ehhh david-kun, whats behind these childrens curtains?
>pussy dries up
>blocks you on line

>>714364462
>ehhh david-kun, whats behind these childrens curtains?
>"eh, just some old stuff from my childhood, nothing special"
>do sex

>>714364215
Holy shit that one looks so good. What's your resolution? Heard someone say that mega bezel is meant for 4k but I'm only a 1080plet

>>714365708
It is on a 4k screen. Cyberlab's death to pixels can look good but I find it too harsh at monitor viewing distances.

>>714357094 (OP)
I'm not a pvm fag and I agree that's not how it was, but I can't deny it looks really damn good on trinitrons most of the time.

>>714366278
>Cyberlab's death to pixels
Aren't all his presets using upscale filters like picrel and then slap CRT shader on the top?

>>714357094 (OP)
stop listening to retards online and think they represent a group of people irl

i shouldn't have to tell you this

>>714366580
nope. why repeat things you heard other mongs say?

luv me sony

>>714357094 (OP)
aperture grille was in every trinitron and that was a normal consumer tv.

>>714367101
>80s-early 90s
>95% of CRT sales were shadow mask
>90s-00s
>85% shadow mask
Now without reason everyone and their grandmas had a trinitron

I hate how 4k is so good for shaders but sucks so much for modern vidya.

More me it is MBZ_0_SMOOTH-ADV_GDV

>>714367731
> modern vidya.
Found the problem.

>>714367856

>trinitroon
the signs were there all along

>>714357094 (OP)
I feel bad for zoomers who didn't buy a PVM when they were cheap.

I had shadow masks, I still have one on a small TV in another room, they're fucking dogshit. Anything that isn't a trinitron is dogshit, and growing up I had a trinitron anyway.

Shaders get you 95% of the way there anyway. I prefer playing a lot of games on my modern 43" 4k screen, because that's a 35" 4:3 screen, which is way nicer than my 20" PVM.

>>714358828
The real version looked like shit, so I dont blame all the rest for a least trying to make it look better.

>>714361943
R4

based

>>714362940
Why the fuck do you have Japanese stuff

>>714370454
>The real version looked like shit
This opinions comes from zoomers and negroids who didn't play games back then. You see, lil niggy, this is THE BEST what you could have back then. If you played games that looked like this you can only have fond memories of them exactly because it was just good back then
Sure, you can reflect on those memories later and think "damn, what a poor technology it was", but to you from the past it was an absolute blast. Your only alternative was to get beaten up at school or something

>>714359092
Too expensive and my heart is set on these colored versions to ever invest in one.

>>714371863
Wait, these don't look like the real versions. There's also an orange one I seen.

>>714364462
>>714365275
I'm married, and my wife and kids are into video games too. I keep the retro stuff in this closet in my bedroom, and the modern stuff and my PC are in the living room. The curtains are the help keep light from directly shining onto everything when I have the closet doors open to let air flow.
>>714371259
Because I live in Japan. I have Japanese citizenship too. Why the hell did you have stuff from your country?

>>714374102
>I have Japanese citizenship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACGSiN3ZkI

>>714374102
>male hapa kids
Lol. Lmao, even.

>>714357094 (OP)
>No one played on a CRT with a aperture grille.
Anyone with a Sony TV did you dumb fuck. Growing up, my dad never bought a single TV that WASN'T a trinitron

>>714374102
>Because I live in Japan. I have Japanese citizenship too
Are you White?

>>714374568
I am home.
>>714374867
What's a hapa?
>>714376601
Yes I am.

>>714378751
you will NEVER be japanese

>>714378860
Really? That's weird, so how come I can get hired for government jobs that are restricted for foreigners? How come I'm allowed to vote and participate in political parties? How come I have the legal right to live here and don't need something like a visa? How come my kids inherited Japanese citizenship through me? How come I have a Japanese passport and a koseki? How come I don't have a zairyu card and I'm not required to carry an iD or show one to police if I get stopped? (I never get stopped)

You have to be Japanese to get that stuff.

Burgers have no rgb on their tvs so theyre forced to buy this meme
>inb4 le 50 hz
All good brand tvs manufactured since the mid 90s had ntsc support

>>714380067
no amount of pieces of paper with government stamps on them will EVER make you japanese. three hundred thousand years of bloodline ends with you. have fun with your supreme gentlemen sons.

>>714380429
Oh I get it now! I'm not Japanese because a gaijin said so, regardless of the fact that Japan said I'm Japanese. That sure makes a lot of sense, thanks for explaining it to me Mr Gaijin.

Seethe harder

>>714380602
why do you not go and post on 2chan, if you're so japanese? unironically believing in citizenshit, you make me sick.

>>714357094 (OP)
I played on both

>>714380789
Whether or not someone is Japanese isn't determined by what websites they post on. Also I stopped using that site after the last exodus.

Get sicker, it's fun to watch you burn with jealousy knowing that I'm living your dream.

>>714381162
it will never be my dream to condemn my children to a rootless, hollow existence. like all gamers i think japan is cool and all, but you're just coping. your children will not hate you for it, but they will know the truth.

>>714380602
>Japan said I'm Japanese
Well the answer here is very simple, they're wrong. There are a lot of retards out there who think that gender is meaningless and men can be women, doesn't mean they're right.

It's the same with you thinking you're Japanese. Ethnicity is a gulf you will never bridge.

>>714378751
>Yes I am.
Lucky fucker

>>714374102
Yakumo is that you?

>>714381554
Weird, my children have a great life. Much better than what I had in America. You don't have to worry about condemning your children to anything because nobody wants to hop on your slimy dick.
>>714381596
>Ethnicity
You should try learning what that word means before you say stupid shit like that. Ethnicity isn't a PC term for "race" (race is bullshit pseudoscience btw)
>>714382196
Nah

>>714383838
>race is bullshit pseudoscience btw
reddit is much more your speed, you should go there

>>714386384
Redditors are extremely racist, I'd rather not.

>>714388130
t. racist

Ironically the only CRT’s available are, like OP said, from old hospitals. Those TV’s were unable to receive cable properly, let alone game

>>714357094 (OP)
Those Star Wars games for the SNES are so bad, holy shit. If anyone is curious to understand why Westerners didn't know how to make games back then (and many still don't today), just play that game.

>>714383838
>race is bullshit pseudoscience btw
Yeah man, fuck genetics.

>>714357094 (OP)
>KotOR fullscreen on a widescreen CRT
>no PC in sight, so it's the Xbox version stretched

>>714357094 (OP)
>No one played on a CRT with a aperture grille.

I did. My friend had one and it was the first style of TV I got to play the Sega Genesis on. I played Road Rash, Paperboy, and Sonic 1 that way. I didn't know what that type of monitor was called so thanks for posting it I guess. Might buy one now.

>>714357094 (OP)
>THIS IS NOT RETRO!

I'd rather play retro games on the best looking CRT technology than the shitty Magnavox of my childhood

>>714388745
I agree they suck but they're just designed as arcade games. It uses a password system and each stage is supposed to be its own separate challenge. You're not supposed to play it all in one sitting.

>>714383838
>race is bullshit pseudoscience btw
flat-earther level of delusion btw

>>714357094 (OP)
>714358707
Instead of spazzing out like a retard you should lurk more and learn why people use those monitors for retro gaming. You don't know as much about the topic as you think you do.

I care more about "do I like it" than authenticity