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CRT madness!

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    #662
    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    I feel like this will be appreciated here:

    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQeSpb9/



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    #663
    Jack burton
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002559#Comment_122002559

    Only saw this now. I'm in Waterford so would gladly pick it up and see if I can get it sorted out



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    #664
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,996 ✭✭✭Doge


    This got me right in the feels watching this, but he has good taste! A super Famicom and a little portable CRT. We should ask him to host the next Beers, any excuse to visit Japan! 😜

    https://youtu.be/G8M9uCpDqfg



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    #665
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,698 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122203745#Comment_122203745

    Ah jaysus haha, right in the feels too.

    There are unfortunately a lot of lonely dudes in Japan. A lot of them don't really have friends and definitely don't go near western tourists, it's actually really frustrating if you're into meeting people while away.

    I did a bit of a group tour for a few days while I was there in October and ended up befriending the tour guide, dude my own age who grew up in 90s Japanese arcades. Immediately hit it off.

    After the trip was over we ended up just sticking with him and getting up to all kinds of antics. Was really amazing tbh. Experiences you wouldn't have there in a million years normally as a westerner in Japan just off the plane.

    Still keep in touch now and send packages back and forth full of bits and pieces. I do get the impression though that he's really lonely. There can be something extremely isolating with the culture if you don't tow the line, become a salaryman or are in any way not the status quo.



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    #666
    Doge
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    Ah that sounds like a lovely experience o1s1n!

    You must have got the proper Japan experience rather than a touristy one!



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    #667
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,698 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122206776#Comment_122206776

    It was unbelievably lucky to be honest! There's a real culture of not wanting to bother people so nobody really engages with folks they don't know. Couple that with the language barrier and you can get a bit lonely as a tourist. A lot of the time you actually feel a like you're being put in the 'gaijin corner' away from the regulars in restaurants and bars.

    To go from that to suddenly having a nice Japanese person with great English to talk to, and not only that but really eager to bring us to places well away from tourist traps was pretty magical.

    As to be expected, he absolutely massacred me in every Street Fighter 2 game we played (and I'd been bloody practicing my CE game before going away!)



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    o1s1n
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    I've played about a bit before with Netflix and YouTube on a CRT with with a 360 and it worked great for 4:3 content without black bars.

    Occurred to me this evening to see if the 360 would pick up my NAS - it does!

    Seems to not like a lot of the modern video file formats but a lot of my older stuff in 4:3 streams great.

    Having a hard time photographing it but the picture is razor sharp. Definitely a bit of an interesting use for any 360s lying about.

    PXL_20240606_230731253.MP.jpg

    Actually this seems more apt! My CRT is extremely forgiving to these crappy VHS transfers.

    PXL_20240606_231551277.MP.jpg



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    #669
    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    I've done something similar with an RGB-Pi scart adapter and Kodi.

    Streaming stuff to a CRT is a bit surreal but fun at the same thing.

    Even stuff that looks pixelated when upscaled to 1080p / 4k on modern TVs looks perfect on the crt.

    Was only watching adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Married with Children on the CRT a few weeks ago.



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    #670
    o1s1n
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    Yeah it's amazing how forgiving a CRT is to low resolution videos.

    I'm absolutely loving being able to chuck on an episode of GamesMaster while playing arcade games on the two cabinets, really adds something to the experience.

    Was there much to setting up the Pi to do that? Might look into that actually, would be nice to get some additional video types working with it and not being constrained by what the 360 supports.



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