[deleted]
Best of both worlds
Submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/664cd31b-be5a-4553-97d5-522f87ca3c36.jpeg
Comments
mihnt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
dewritoninja@pawb.social 11 months ago
You can always buy a really really big computer monitor
FlaccidJim@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Could you possibly tap into the speaker output inside the TV, and use it as a high output for an amplifier? Or possible get some kind of analog to digital converter perhaps?
otacon239@feddit.de 11 months ago
Found Technology Connections’ alt
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone out there made an HDMI adapter for the Wii. I hacked my Wii about ten years ago so I could load it up with emulators. Old 16 bit games look fantastic on my OLED.
nottheengineer@feddit.de 11 months ago
I still have a Wii with a custom launcher and a hard drive full of games lying around. I should use it again, there isn’t another game quite like excite truck.
riquisimo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Excite truck is amazing. Being able to put your own music in the game was (for lack of better phrasing) game-changing.
JoShmoe@ani.social 11 months ago
How convenient, someone out there stole my HDMI invention for the Wii.
dingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…what?
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Who’s L?
I wholeheartedly agree
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I really miss the last generation of tube TVs to the early flat panels. Electronics of that time knew what I was about. They had composite ports on the front so that you could bring your PS2 over to your buddy’s house and play Guitar Hero all night. It worked. And you could trust it to work.
I hate smart TVs and when my current "commercial signage TV that’s not a smart TV but it still really wants to be connected to the internet* dies, I’m just gonna buy a monitor or do without.
Raz@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I did that and I’m really happy I did. I bought a TV sized monitor and hooked up a Google TV. It’s great and I’m hoping I’ll be able to use the TV at least 10 years this way instead of it slowing down like crazy after 2 to 3 years. All I need to replace is the dongle.
shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I’m trying to figure out what to buy now because my TV from 20 years ago finally died. Can’t find anything that’s essentially a large monitor.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hisense with Android TV or TCL with Roku seems to be the least bad of the smart TVs about ads, and you can easily not connect them to your WiFi. If you want smart TV functions, you can always hook a PS5 or XBX/S or OSMC PC to the TV with HDMI.
Hisense U8K this year has good reviews from rtings.com and is probably the best you can get without going into OLED territory.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
My parents have a couple of TCL televisions, and they kind of concern me. That product, for that price…it’s got to come with botnet software out of the box. There’s no way you’re not aiding and abetting a fascist regime buying these suspiciously cheap TVs.
elscallr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just buy a TV and don’t connect the wi-fi. It’s only 90% solved, but as long as it has HDMI inputs and a digital audio out it gets the job done.
sawdustprophet@midwest.social 11 months ago
Just buy a TV and don’t connect the wi-fi for the smart capability
Some of these TVs will find an unsecured network within range to connect to, so they can still bombard you with ads.
And (in my experience) they’re still slow as hell. I press “power on” and have to go pour a drink or something while I wait for it to boot up, as if I’m warming up a radio in the 1930s.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I know, I want the same.
SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hisense U8 range is fantastic.
clearleaf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re better off getting separate boxes to convert to HDMI. Digital TVs with analogue inputs need to convert and upscale the video, and even in TVs that cost a fortune those components are all really crappy. They’ll make the video blurrier than on CRT TVs and game consoles will have input lag. Not everyone minds but it’s worth knowing before you spend money on a TV.
9point6@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OSSC (+ koryuu) or Retrotink are the best ways to do this today for anyone wondering. You will not find better upscaling built-in to any TV.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 11 months ago
Just get an A/V receiver and plug it in over “insert modern version of HDMI here” and call it a day. I have like 7 consoles hooked up to my receiver all going to a 4K HDR TV. (It’s a smart TV but it’s completely disconnected from all networks)
Maultasche@feddit.de 11 months ago
My modern 4K TV has an AV input, unfortunately, for anything below 480p I need an upscaler.
JohnnyH842@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I haven’t thought about S-Video in a while
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Long time ago there was a drawing of a cat, mapping out the different portions of a cat, like a butcher’s diagram, but…
The cat had an S-Video port for a butthole.
I don’t know why it had an s-video poopchute & I can’t seem to locate the image, but…
If you google “cat with s-video butt” the Animaniacs logo is a top result.
For some reason, that seems fitting.
Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a Toshiba crt with HDMI and everything before, I don’t know what I’ll do when it dies.
Psythik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Which version of HDMI, though? (You can find out if you search for the model number.) That can limit what you can plug into it — mostly with newer stuff — if it’s an old enough version.
Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The manual says type a. I am curious I haven’t heard of this issue before
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a great Samsung tv that has all these ports. It’s maybe a 2015?
The lag is noticeable on the old games… Anything I can do??
Rakudjo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you aren’t aware already, most TVs have a dedicated “Game mode” that helps to sync the video and audio and reduce visual delay.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Motion interpolation seems to be the main lag culprit.
Makes it look like it’s running at 120fps. Plays like it’s running at 20.
Switch that off and most modern 4K TVs are basically a monitor.
This won’t really help for really old analogue stuff though. Nothing will. It still needs to get the whole image before it can display it. Best you can do there (short of original hardware and a CRT) is emulate and use runahead to get a few frames back.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve searched on this Samsung and haven’t found it :(
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
L, too, want to plug in anything L want…
Fubar91@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Retrotink has been a life saver for me getting all my retro consoles hooked up to my new tv.
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I had a ~2008 Samsung plasma, it had all the ports and multiples of most. I finally got tired of waiting for it to die, it still had a great picture when I gave it away last year.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 months ago
I have an old plasma from that era too. I really didn’t expect it to last this long, or survive so many moves.
I play retro games on it now.
DarthBueller@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I definitely find myself hankering for a 4:3 monitor - I don’t care if its CRT or not, but are there any 4:3 LCD monitors that have a decent dot pitch? I’ve been spoiled by modern LCD tech and late-stage CRT tech - all the 4:3 LCD screens I see feel fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes but
Plasma good, LCD bad.
spudwart@spudwart.com 11 months ago
well, I like my OSSC so…
krousenick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly I’d just be happy to have a TV without builtin “smarts”. Let me use my own set to box! I feel like Im collecting TVs from the late 2000s
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just disable the networking and put the TV in game mode, which disables the smart stuff to give more processing power to the TV.
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I went out of my way to get a “stupid” TV last time I had to get a new one because I didn’t want the smart stuff. Probably wouldn’t be possible now.
elscallr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not. I just don’t connect the wi-fi. TVs usually enter a default state of “just go to the last selected input” which works fine for me.
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Places like casinos are able to get the dumb TVs. Try to get a hold of one of them somehow. They use them to display their advertising.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love that the OS for my LG TV pretty much stays out of my way while I run everything through the Roku. The only time I see anything from the TV OS is the occasional small pop up letting me know it completed an update.