What kinda TV do you play TG16 on?

[turbogrfxfan]

i use my tg16,duo r, and d cast on my Toshiba 50" hd rear projection cimema series tv. and for audio Im running into my Lexicon mc1 digital processor wich pushes thrue my Mcintosh surround amplifier.

[BlueBMW]

30 inch Toshiba, CRT 1080i HDTV. It's an HDTV and it's a CRT. The only issue with it is it has "seizure protection" which causes it to blink out in heavy flashing (charge attack in Aero Blasters, various light gun game flashes, Samurai Showdown all over).

Can it be turned off?  My tv has some strange stuff like that.  The only one that seemed to be good was something called "game mode" which helped the refresh rates or something for better video game use.

[MotherGunner]

I run S-Video into my 42 inch Samsung HDTV and have zero issues.  Looks beautiful.

[DragonmasterDan]

Can it be turned off?  My tv has some strange stuff like that.  The only one that seemed to be good was something called "game mode" which helped the refresh rates or something for better video game use.

This isn't a game mode issue. It's intentionally designed seizure protection that goes off when something flashes beyond a certain level. The TV just will blink out for a moment rather than display the flash. It can't be turned off, it's in place to prevent Pokemon Seizure like incidents from occurring.

[TheClash603]

27" Sony Trinitron, SDTV is the way to go with all older consoles, as others have already said.

52" Samsung LCD for my Xbox 360 and PS3 only.

[BlueBMW]

This isn't a game mode issue. It's intentionally designed seizure protection that goes off when something flashes beyond a certain level. The TV just will blink out for a moment rather than display the flash. It can't be turned off, it's in place to prevent Pokemon Seizure like incidents from occurring.

That's too bad it cant be turned off.  I could see that being a bit annoying at times.

[nodtveidt]

I have two TVs that I can use my now-mangled TG16 with, namely my 29" Sanyo or the old 13" who-knows-what-this-is-anymore thing. Both are CRTs, and neither are going to be replaced anytime soon. My wife's mother won a brand new flatscreen HDTV the other day at the casino but we haven't put it up yet... I wonder how well that will work?

[Tatsujin]

good old CRT. there won't be anything other than that as long they are available and working.

[Official Ninja]

I play on a 37" LG LCD. When I purchased it the low res inputs looked like crap, so I used to do the retro gaming on a smaller 19" CRT. Big surprise though, I found a firmware update to my LCD on the web. I plugged the USB stick with the update in the back of the TV and 10 minutes later it was done. Now all the low res inputs look fantastic. Really happy with it.
I also do some gaming on a couple larger Sony LCD screens, a 52" W series and a 55" 3D HX series. When I can get at them anyway.... my son and his friends usually monopolize them playing 360 or PS3.

[ceti alpha]

I play on a 37" LG LCD. When I purchased it the low res inputs looked like crap, so I used to do the retro gaming on a smaller 19" CRT. Big surprise though, I found a firmware update to my LCD on the web. I plugged the USB stick with the update in the back of the TV and 10 minutes later it was done. Now all the low res inputs look fantastic. Really happy with it.
I also do some gaming on a couple larger Sony LCD screens, a 52" W series and a 55" 3D HX series. When I can get at them anyway.... my son and his friends usually monopolize them playing 360 or PS3.

Hmmmm...I'm going to try to do a firmware update on my TV. I never thought about that.

[Necromancer]

My TurboDuo is hooked up to a mid-90s 32" Sony CRT.  It ain't perfect but it's good enough for me, and it's certainly much better than when I test drove it on the LCD (no scanlines = teh suck).

Alternatively, I can again Turbob on a 2.6 inch LCD thanks to the chopspital.  Advanced technology - f*ck yeah!

[DragonmasterDan]

That's too bad it cant be turned off.  I could see that being a bit annoying at times.

Yep, I have a second TV a 25 inch CRT, Sharp that I use for other systems. It does not have the seizure protection.

[chany60126]

I have a 32 inch Phillips/Magnavox CRT downstairs in my den that I use for the Turbo Duo. It is perfect for me, especially for the shooters. I also have a 20 inch Phillips/Magnavox CRT in my room that I use for my Turbografx+SCD whenever I feel too lazy to go downstairs.

[SignOfZeta]

With all due respect to other humans, my personal opinion is that anyone who thinks an SD game console looks good on an LCD probably has a different definition of "good" than I do. A lot of people who watch SD TV stretched to 16:9, or listen to music with pack-in Apple headphones, or drive a Dodge Caliber, or eat White Castle, or wear dollar store sweat pants...they'll say these things are "fine" or "good enough", but I think its really the inability to tell the difference that helps them stick up for this junk.

What sucks about the LCD thing is that I can't think of any marketing incentive that would ever drive the OEMs to fix this problem. With all movie content coming from set-top internet devices and all game consoles going HD (when the Wii dies, that'll be it) they start removing composite/s-video/component from all new TVs period. Then what we will play TG-16 on? Maybe the same TVs we are now since new electronics are unreliable junk...but some day all the 90s CRTs will be dead, and we'll have to be modding our Duo Rs for HDMI.

I guess, realistically, we only have to bother with keeping this stuff going in our lifetimes. When we're gone in 60 years nobody will give a shit about 16-bit gaming. In the meanwhile we need to learn how to fix old TVs as well as the systems that we run on them.

The alternative of course would be super high performance upscan converters built (competently) with gaming in mind. Something like the X-RGB series, only better.

[Obfuscate]

Dude, White Castle is f*ckin good.