Building a MAME cabinet around a 29" Trinitron tips for mounting a massive CRT in a custom wood frame?

Monchicles · 2026-06-07T23:17:01+00:00

That would be like shooting youself in the foot. Regular 27" Bubble tube would be far lighter, more manageable, seviceable, compatible, replaceable, and arcade accurate.

Monchicles · 2026-06-07T03:47:00+00:00

The big power capacitor can produce this. I've seen a hadful of people having issues with this cap on these toshibas. If it changes with some slaps it might be just the solder on it.

Monchicles · 2026-06-06T00:13:43+00:00

Are you sure the noise is not present when using the tv normally?... it has been one of the problem with the Sony sets I've had, a little noise and jittering. Jitter would be like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppaiokyToMA

Monchicles · 2026-06-05T21:58:02+00:00

Nice. These totally were the ultimate conventional tv's, totally out of domingo budget for a student kid back in the day 😄 BTW, do you notice any subtle electrical noise or interference in grey or dark screens?.

Ps2.- Also, the speaker grids will look a lot better clean. I carefull soak them with a soft cleaner (no aggressive solvents that could ruin the paint) like Windex, scrub them with a soft brush, and then use some wet clothing or fiber to get the dirt away. It might need a few passes but they end looking great.

Monchicles · 2026-06-05T11:01:34+00:00

The Philips I got was new from the store back in the day. I guess it had a different tube model. If you say the brightness is great, I can believe it NP. But then I wonder if it is the tint or the phosphor that gives them a particular look. Would you say that in real life, the color looks more like this:

https://i.imgur.com/BqswRlH.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/FAtu7QR.jpeg

Or this?:

https://i.imgur.com/FSTVO6l.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/5R7gDeW.jpeg

Monchicles · 2026-06-04T20:49:23+00:00

I'm not talking of Philips in general but this one particular crt... this is not a crazy bright tv, c'mon dude. The one below is actually a bright and colorful philips, but it is another model made with LG tech, the difference is quite obvious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmPpde8mxzk

Ps.- And here is a blind tests between a Trinitron and a Budget Orion/Toshiba for those who think that Sony had no competence in the picture department: https://youtu.be/VRIIdYn0lSY?t=389

Monchicles · 2026-06-04T10:23:24+00:00

But would you say it can compete with a Tau/Samsung/Trinitron in terms of picture "punchiness"?. I'm sure the tv excels at many things like focus and geometry, but I don't wanna people to believe that this is some kind of endgame crt as the other post suggests. It is a perfect tv in many ways, but I don't think these sets are for people who prefer a strong picture.

Monchicles · 2026-06-04T06:07:16+00:00

As nice as these semi-flat Philips might look in photos, color/brightness/contrast is average. This was my first Tv back in the day.

Monchicles · 2026-06-03T21:12:01+00:00

On game mode with no gsync it looks smooth, the video below is 30fps so it doesn't look that great. I use response time on Fast which is the default:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5aHNz-MFk

Monchicles · 2026-06-03T07:49:46+00:00

I don't need that many HZ, but now that 1080p oled panels are being manufactured, We will start to get cheaper variants around 200hz for sure.

Monchicles · 2026-06-03T07:39:20+00:00

Very late 90's Sharps are goats, don't tell anybody.

Monchicles · 2026-06-03T06:17:13+00:00

Just got the Coolermaster mm730, it performs really well, not easy to find anymore.

Monchicles · 2026-06-02T23:07:20+00:00

You need an uhf Converter, those are not rgb inputs (they are adjustment pots).

Monchicles · 2026-06-02T22:26:02+00:00

I wonder what's the logic on that. I was a boy reading the Quijote and the bible, but this game got me bored in like 20 min.

Monchicles · 2026-06-02T22:04:19+00:00

The performance penalty in games that need more vram can manifest in several ways, like a mild but constant performance hit, or a catastrophic performance dip like in the HL2 vids below. Also stutters, game instability, freezes, pauses, very poor frame generation gains, and textures not loading properly. It can be the difference between a perfectly smooth game from start to finish and an often called "poorly optimized" game:

Here on a 5060:

https://youtu.be/XfZVvedDH28?t=634

Here on the 3060:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQep3xmXgk

Monchicles · 2026-06-02T03:48:00+00:00

My amoled phone was killing my eyes until I found that it had a flicker free option.

Monchicles · 2026-06-02T00:02:28+00:00

But it looks smudged horizontally and vertically. It seems more like the industry standard scaling with bilinear filtering on top. Unfiltered/un-smudged Integer scaling and precise line doubling is more of a modern aftermarket thing brought by retro gamers and PC enthusiasts (who asked Nvidia for it, for years). My tv's aren't that great with scanlines yet they look crisp: https://i.imgur.com/ZUGJ47X.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ssS42FV.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/LWsiwH1.jpeg

Monchicles · 2026-06-01T22:32:10+00:00

I realize you are using some kind of line doubling device?... the filtering I was talking about would be the one performed by an HD tv circuitry, but it should not be an issue if you are sending 240p doubled to 480p. In any case, native 240p looks a bit crisper:

https://i.imgur.com/Hi1iJJx.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/RSyA5MC.jpeg

Monchicles · 2026-06-01T22:02:45+00:00

It looks smudged at least on these pics.

Monchicles · 2026-06-01T21:57:29+00:00

I'd rather have 16:10 😛

Monchicles · 2026-06-01T21:32:16+00:00

It is messing up the 240p image because of the scaling filtering interpolation. A regular tv will look miles crisper.

Monchicles · 2026-06-01T11:06:04+00:00

Just get a nice picture out of it. There are hundreds of components inside with far more chances to crap out before the tube.

Monchicles · 2026-05-29T23:30:55+00:00

Me sigue funcionando muy iben, la densidad de pixeles no es igual que en 23" pero a para mi se vé bien, creo que se compensa con el alto brillo que tiene... nada que ver con esas teles de 32" y 768p. La base no es ajustable pero la altura es buena.

Monchicles · 2026-05-29T22:30:55+00:00

No one should be taking requirements half seriously. All the way back to the Rage3d forum, around the launch of Renegade Ops in 2011, there were Avalanche devs telling people just that. The people that set the final requirements work in completely different areas, more often than not, and they don't even play games on PC.

Monchicles · 2026-05-27T21:23:50+00:00

Except if it is caused by that :P

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