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0 pointstombert1y ago0 comments

No, I don't think it is, a friend of mine got one recently and I could only just barely hear the squeal, and I suspect that in another year or two I won't hear it at all.

Still, I don't miss it, I never really liked it. People love to crap on LCD TVs, but honestly I'm an unapologetic fan of them. Even pretty cheap LCD TVs nowadays are really decent [1], and give a really sharp, nice picture with very few downsides. I have a MiSTer plugged into my $400 Vizio in my bedroom plugged in via HDMI, and SNES games just look so much better on it than they ever did on my CRT as a kid.

[1] Except for the speakers. Somehow built in speakers have gotten way worse than they were in the 90s, and TVs are borderline unusable without a soundbar or something.

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toast01y ago

Most people were playing SNES via composite video or RF out. MiSTER is going to be using RGB. RGB cables for SNES didn't really happen in the US (YPbPr component video seemed to come out with DVDs, and there weren't contemporaneous cables for that for SNES, although they exist now), but S-Video was available and is much better than composite.

On speakers, it's pretty simple. Physical depth is very useful for simple speaker designs, and today's screens are very thin and try not to have a bezel. It's pretty common for speakers to be downward or rear facing to make the front of the tv beautiful. This provides sound, but it's not very good. And you can't get much bass out of a small speaker anyway. A CRT tv was pretty big, adding a sizable speaker wasn't a big deal. Even early flat screens had room for an OK speaker, usually oval to use the width of the screen without adding much to the height.

tombertOP1y ago

Yeah, I'm not claiming that my HDMI setup for the MiSTer is the most accurate to the original experience, I'm claiming that I just like the raw HDMI output better than I liked the composite/S-Video signal. It's just a much clearer picture, I like the sharp, chunky pixels.

Yeah, I figured it had something to do with how thin they are.

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