Two things I wanted to say.
One I just bought a $15 CRT VGA 4x3 1600 X 1200 monitor, for $15 for both the Monitor and shipping combined (and considering the weight of these things. that’s a great deal) at walmart.com add typing in the term “CRT VGA”.
2 if you think nothing is quicker than a CRT, that the only question is is the time you gain with that CRT TV lost when going from HDMI to VGA? I know stealing from one digital standard to another causes delay, I heard digitally encoding an analog signal causes delay. I’m not sure if digital-to-analog decoding is that significant of a delay. (By the way it may be significant enough to throw off light gun games, but I don’t need that degree of accuracy for everything that runs natively on HDMI)
So what are the options for someone who has a 4 by 3 VGA and wants to run a 16x9 720P (or higher)
And even though the whammy test failed the standard 1 millisecondvgray-to-gray test, that may have been a faulty test because there are many different versions of The Flash Whammy game, and it seems like all of them incorporate a flight ping that even a CRT TV can’t deal with. I’ll test it tonight and see if a CRT is too much.
There were about a hundred people at the time who got a hundred k plus scores, so the developers might have intentionally added the way to keep the scores more realistic.
But if I could find one of those pre-modified versions, then then we could get to the conditions where we could see if a 1 millisecond gray to Gray monitor is as quick as a CRT TV or not, because it will pass a CRT and fail any traditional flat screen.
If it requires a separate subject maybe we should have a separate category on HDMI to VGA converters: a recommendations list.
just like most things there’s not one ultimates thing they’ll work for everyone in every case. You have to decide what’s your first priority, like mine being quickness on everything except a light gun game possibly, list of things you don’t care about at all, like for me it’s filling the screen. And then priority rate the stuff in the middle, And see what converter works for you. I’ll go Google it right now and if there is already an existing thing a post it in 10 minutes or less.
Well I found out any HDMI to VGA and the second number should be below what your intended.
So a 1024 x 768x 60 hz or a 1280 x 1024 x 60 hz can only go 720p, because 720<768<1024<1080? Or can a 1280 x 1024 do 1080p?
I know it can do 720p.
And I heard whether it’s letterboxes, zoomed or distorted depends on monitor controls, not HDMI to CRT converter abilities.
That’s what I found out using reddit’s CRTGamibg subreddit.
And a 34 inch CRT TV has delay, because it only does 1080i, modern game machines only do progressive, and interlacing causes delays.
Are combos more intuitive with CRT levels of lag? I have a tough time doing combos of considerable length on a PS3DTV. Maybe low ping will help me.
Well, I hooked up an Xbox One and Switch to the VGA.
A couple of notes. My default “squishes and zooms in” a 16x9 1080p picture. I can get rid of the squish by shrinking the vertical. But it’s still zoomed it at 1080p.
So I tried 720p after resetting it. This time it was the complete picture except squished so I squashed the vertical until it the 16x9 square was a square with a circle inside.
Lookswise, it’s not much different, except the black/white contrast is higher.
The question is, how will it play? I notice when my cell phone received an FM signal via phone, the sound is noticably delayed vs the picture. I guess that’s LCD ping for you.
Xbox One and the Switch was intended for a 16:9 screen, there no way to get around squishing or zooming. You need a separate outside video image processor.
Exactly. But it fits in 720p mode. At First vertically stretched, but the screen has its own settings mode.
Thankfully it keeps it. I shrink the height to get a 16x9 letterboxed (or slightly windowboxed) video in the right proportion.
I probably don’t have to set it again unless 4x3 images are windowboxed, which is assuming I care about size and “filing the screen”, which I don’t. By there no way to shrink down my screen enough when console’s in 1080p mode.
The proof will be in the playing. Is it possible to beat Mike Tys… Er, Mr Dream on a Virtual Console?
It’s considered impossible on a non CRT when using pure reactions only. Will a CRT VGA work?
Consider this
3D printed HDMI to Gardena connector
Here the part on thingverse
I may be a psych patient, but I’m not tech gullable. First, even if it were possible, why would one want to convert a TV signal into water? Second it sounds like Alchamy: the “science” of turning lead into gold. I know chhemistry inherited it’s well intentioned research. But if it were successful, then we’d be like planet Melmac, where the phrase “gold cheap” would have been invented.