What modern TV technology looks best with the NES?

What modern TV technology looks best with the NES?
by drk421 on 2009-05-27 (#47297)

Seeing as how you can't even buy CRTs in the store anymore, what modern display technology does the NES look the best on?

by Super-Hampster on 2009-05-27 (#47298)

I've only tried on an LCD, but you can still buy CRT's. At least you can here. They are still on the shelf at walmart, also you can even get a CRT HDTV. Probably not in the store but they have been made.

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-30HF66-Up ... 563&sr=1-2

I think though that the NES just isn't going to look great on any HDTV.
My father-in-law has a Zenith 37 inch HDTV that is CRT. Maybe next time I go down I can bring my NES and see how it looks.

by peppers on 2009-05-27 (#47305)

^that is a plasma screen, those do use a flat CRT and are still commonly produced and sold everywhere also not very great for the NES

I remember someone saying something like it would look better if you hook it up to a $20,000 professional quality upscaler. and then hooked that up to the HDTV. SD TVs are still pretty commonplace though. I have not seen a store that sells TV’s that don’t have them

by koitsu on 2009-05-27 (#47306)

My top-loading NES on my 13" Sony CRT looks like complete crap. Then again, I shouldn't be expecting much out of a 13" TV, but still.

Point is, they're just not made how they used to be. Probably better off waiting for OLED to drop in price and get something like that. No ghosting/blur, no burn in, brighter colours, lightweight.

by acem77 on 2009-05-28 (#47331)

Without a rgb mod and a up scanner (xrgb) no HD TV will look good.
Id say any HD TV with interlaced video looks bad the internal scalers are terrible.
With my Samsung dlp and my xrgb2 plus all my Interlaced rgb and component game systems look awesome.
One of the best screens I have for composite video is an old c64 monitor.
Once TVs started to use more digital circuits composite video took a beating.

by Dwedit on 2009-05-28 (#47336)

I think the NES looks much better when connected via RF than by composite.

by ironfist61 on 2009-06-06 (#47734)

Dwedit wrote:
I think the NES looks much better when connected via RF than by composite.

Why?
Who uses coaxial jacks anymore anyway?
Me, I still use CRT, Been thinking of upgrading.
But the coaxial jack broke off my set in 2005. Been too lazy to solder back on, I just use component anyway. And SVideo for my voodoo3.