Playing Modern PC Games On an Old CRT TV

What happens when you force an old CRT TV from 2005 that's best suited to a PlayStation 2 to work with your modern PC hardware? You get interesting, and surprising results...

Thanks for watching :)

[Fiction_Supreme]

CRT is the reason why we thought all those old games we played in the past looked so good to us.

[EuroWolf]

I’m a crt enthusiast and a major fan of your channel. For the best results with these crts, there are HD crts that have hdmi built in and they’re able to display 1080i and look incredible . I had a Toshiba one back in the day

[twizz]

A CRT monitor has much better quality than a CRT TV. You should look for an old Samsung CRT monitor, they're great.

[themwithat]

Believe it or not, Philips build an 32" HDready 720p 16:9 CRT with HDMI port in 2009 - one of the last CRTs in the shops surrounded by LCDs. The picture was amazing and far better than the LCDs of this time.

[RMeitzen]

The moment you started gaming on the tv gave me such a huge nostalgia feeling. I remember waking up early to play my PS2 on an old crt TV and it sounds exactly like how I remember.

[johnanth]

This practice actually enhances classic pixel art games. I play Super Nintendo games emulated now and then, and there are many filters built in in all these emulators to give the 'CRT look'. This isn't just for nostalgia; the filters smooth out the pixels, which was often intended by the artists at the time. Castlevania Symphony of the Night and Quintet games (like Soul Blazer) are great examples of this. Thank you for the video.

[FTChomp]

Playing modern games on a old CRT TV is kinda awesome its basically giving me some retro futurism vibes.

[NightMotorcyclist]

8 years ago we had a 36" Sony Trinitron TV that was a beastly thing. It took 2 people just to lift and move the thing and when it finally died out (it was on 10+ hours a day in my household as we all worked different shifts) and was replaced with a mid range Samsung 42" LCD TV (which was dying around 2 years ago) and the empty space on our TV stand was really quite shocking. Our wall still has a slight outline from the rear of the Trinitron TV as the back was pressed against the wall being such a large TV.

[RCKDD]

Sound quality has taken a dip over the past 2 decades because we moved from front firing large speakers to down firing small pot speakers.

If you have your screens apart you'll see that the speakers on your new TV are akin to a small portable Bluetooth speaker, where as the crt TV speakers will be wider larger stereo quality speakers that fire audio directly at you rather than at the floor.

[ZimpanX]

The image would probably look a lot better if you used a HDMI to SCART converter that supports RGB, the one shown only supports SCART Composite

[TeyaoTV]

this stuff reminds me of the old days of waking up early on a saturday to fire up some cartoon network and eat cereal. good times...

[guguigugu]

the best thing about CRTs is the motion response. its so much smoother because the screen is constantly redrawn, unlike in LCDs where all pixels are refreshed at the same time every 1/60th of a second, which creates visible multiplications of moving objects instead of smooth movement.

[krdhkr]

If i'm not mistaken the quality of the converter may have an impact on what you get out of the CRT.
Of course it all depends on how much money you want to throw at the subject :-)

[MrSDPlayer]

My PS3 was hooked up to a CRT tv for its first 3 years, and I bought it in 2011. We were late into the LCD/LED market. But when we finally got a modern, Full HD, LCD tv in 2014 I was ECSTATIC

[sinbysin]

I used a CRT as a secondary display on my PC for a while. It was more trouble than it was worth, so I just use it for my old consoles now, but it was fun to test out emulators, and modern pixel art games.

[andresa.ruizv.]

Before looking out for an universal control, check if you have a smartphone with "infrared sensor", or someone you know.
I believe you can try to control old tech like that with an app.
Cool video! Interesting to know that you can reutilice TVs like that ;)

[PsychoKern]

This is how old games looked to us when we were kids

[WH]

Two massive advantages to the older tv's: they had actual glass to protect the displaypanel, and ACTUAL SPEAKERS. These things used to have full blown stereos built in. Modern tv's can't take a hit, and sound like absolute garbage.

[TigerChamp]

I remember watching Digital Foundry's CRT videos. John and Richard pointed out the superior contrast on their CRT display, which was a 16:9 Sony Trinitron FW900.

[evergreengamer]

CRT display really do capture the nostalgia of older games great video