evil_ash_xero wrote:I'm always a bit puzzled why people are so open to the FM. I like the version before that. It didn't have 2 frames of lag.
are you sure about that? according to the XRGB wiki the XRGB3 does actually have about the same amount of input lag as the frame Meister depending on the situation.
Xyga wrote:My 2c on the main reasons to go "flat panel + scaler(s)";
#1 you can use damn bigger screens, not bulky nor heavy, plenty available new everywhere on retail or online and warranted
#2 you can't easily find good rgb crts in ok shape in your area, and you don't have the often serious skills required to properly fix and service those in bad shape
Now do the flat panel + scalers solutions fully reproduce the sensation to play on a crt? No. Actually not even the most advanced emulation shaders really manage, all because most flat panels and response/motion enhancement technologies still don't really do enough to compensate, and kinda waste the desired natural looks and 'life' of crt's.
Maybe one day it'll be okay, just not yet.
STILL, when you have a big flat panel it's better to have controlled clean scaling, fake scanlines and/or fine picture quality control, plus the possibility to get lower lag, than nothing at all, because most flat panel's built-in boards/scalers and firmware simply aren't good enough by themselves to handle all those retro hardwares.
definitely in agreement with Xyga on all his points, it's taken a little over a decade and a half for today's display technologies to even come close to the quality we had with mid-range CRTs. I still see interviews of people in in the movie making business still lamenting the loss of CRT technology and constantly having their hopes dashed every time a new gimmick shows up to give back a little bit of what was lost (Some professionals are both hopeful and skeptical that HDR, along with OLED might be what gets us 95% of the way there)
