Or I should say HDTV killed the SDTV star.
Want an SDTV in modern Britain? Well tought shit, because they don't sell them anymore. They are phased out.
Want to play old games like SNES classics or Dreamcast or wii games? Well have fun with the downgrade, the pixellation, the jaggies, the loss of definition and colour.
Playing DKC this week on an HDTV just makes a game which used to look nice, look like complete ass. So I'm reduced to this, to scouring ebay for second hand CRTs. And of course, CRTs are heavy. So no one wants to ship, so I have to try and find one within 10 miles or less so I can pick it up.
Oh, but even then you get a second hand tv that is years old and may crap out on you at any second. Let's try and forget that I would have to have two TVs in the same room, one for SD gaming.
Or there is the option of buying a new 14" complete piece of crap from an unknown and unreliable brand you've never heard of. And even finding those is like gold dust.
I feel worse than a hobo, scrabbling around for old scraps just so I can play games the way they were meant to be visualised.
HDTV fucked up, their first priority should be smooth and decent scaling. And, having a native resolution mode with borders. But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. That's beyond the limits of their imagination. How is it possible to show a 480 line picture on a 1080 line TV? It's unpossible!
Stoopid. Argh.
Are these SD TVs HD ready? TRUE HD?
Know anywhere where you could find those retro TVs designed for playing SNES and what not with? I can't remember any names, but I'm pretty sure some pics of them have been posted here.
The retro designed Tvs are the LG Serie 1 and only availible in Korea. I emailed LG UK and they have no plans to release it. It comes with a freeview tuner built in for TV.
lol was making fun (and failing) of all the stupid HD advertising.
And damn that sucks.