I got one of these four years ago so I could use an old VCR with a modern TV.
Works great! Amazon shows no longer available, but similar products can be found for about $10.
Pretty much all modern displays are too sharp for low-resolution bitmaps designed for a CRT. The whole modern "pixel art" where you see the art being made up of visible squares is not what you actually would have seen in the 8/16-bit console eras on a TV. Later arcade cabinets were much sharper, but still pixels were more like overlapping circles with Gaussian blur than they were squares.
The Wii is fine on OLED, the issue is with older consoles. Anything designed for TV's before 720p was a thing are where you will run into display disparities.
Well, maybe nobody here is having issues, but right now I own only one monitor with a composite video input. None of the other dozen TVs and monitors I own have one. Fortunately most DTVs can still display NTSC RF, so that's also an option for old equipment.
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I got one of these four years ago so I could use an old VCR with a modern TV. Works great! Amazon shows no longer available, but similar products can be found for about $10.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QPS7BK8
Nobody's having issues connecting them to modern TVs, the issue is they don't look even remotely the same.
Here are some pictures that illustrate the difference: https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-a...
And here's some retro-arch shader comparisons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QOHe4bOZc
Interesting. What's the opinion on OLED? I've been pretty happy with the results connecting my Nintendo Wii to one.
Pretty much all modern displays are too sharp for low-resolution bitmaps designed for a CRT. The whole modern "pixel art" where you see the art being made up of visible squares is not what you actually would have seen in the 8/16-bit console eras on a TV. Later arcade cabinets were much sharper, but still pixels were more like overlapping circles with Gaussian blur than they were squares.
The Wii is fine on OLED, the issue is with older consoles. Anything designed for TV's before 720p was a thing are where you will run into display disparities.
Well, maybe nobody here is having issues, but right now I own only one monitor with a composite video input. None of the other dozen TVs and monitors I own have one. Fortunately most DTVs can still display NTSC RF, so that's also an option for old equipment.