Dreamcast and bang and olufsen CRT connection options

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GRUSS
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Dreamcast and bang and olufsen CRT connection options

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Picked up a dreamcast at the weekend, it only came with the RF cable. I have 2 B&O's MX4000 and MX7000. Also very recently got a skybox 4:1 scart box.

All I can find on the net is a lot of talk about VGA boxes,leads and mods.

I was thinking RGB is my best option? If so, which lead? The offical sega one or a decent 3rd party one.

In regards to VGA which monitors do people use? I could possibly fit another set in my new games room...

Any help or advice will be appreciated :-)
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Re: Dreamcast and bang and olufsen CRT connection options

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The DC's problem with 15khz RGB output is that many games are displayed in 480i. This includes genuine 240p titles as well as all the hi-res stuff. If you can live with that, a RGB scart cable delivers nice quality. On the DC it doesn't matter if you use an original or any other 3rd party RGB cables. Sega missed out on a few ground connections on their official cable, so I'd even recommend to go for a 3rd party cable instead.

VGA will give you 480p instead on almost all titles and using a VGA box and an Emotia scan converter would give you 240p from all VGA-enabled games.
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Re: Dreamcast and bang and olufsen CRT connection options

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Getting quite technical :-/

Think I'll go with a decent third party RGB Cable for the B&O
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