Comment by Tsiklon
5 years ago
I find that the PSX (and PS2 to an extent) look better on a legacy CRT TV, the video artifacting while still present does not appear as unsightly as it does on an modern LCD. Perhaps this is down to my nostalgia for the system
Yeah, I don't recall shimmering ever being noticeable during the PSX era, but when I see videos clips of actual PSX hardware, it stands out to the point of being highly distracting.
The shimmer and dithering are not really noticeable on CRTs. Maaaybe if you had a really fancy Trinitron or another of the last-generation ultrasharp flat screen CRT TVs, it would be noticeable, but those weren't mainstream until pretty comfortably into the PS2+ era.
Granted, I was a kid then. If you were a professional artist or something in the 90s, I'm sure you noticed.
Anything that only has analogue out really—it's only games for 360/PS3 and newer that were really designed with LCDs in mind. Anything older is best played on a CRT, although that's impractical for most people and becoming harder with every passing day.
That said, as much as I love playing old games on a CRT, I'm in a PAL region, and in today's world of high-refresh rate screens 50Hz is nausea inducing.
Nah, a lot of things from that era (including filmography) just look better on the era-appropriate display hardware. CRTs have totally different properties and design considerations; trying to display content made for CRT, on LCD, often just presents the worst of both worlds.