Retro Done Right (Gaming)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Thursday, September 28, 2017, 16:41 (2614 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Is there an easy way to hook a SNES up to a modern TV? And have it not look like garbage?

It can be okay if you have good upscaling and a display with good static contrast.

Scaling algorithms built into TVs are usually terrible for vintage pixel art. Some people resort to external scalers, such as the XRGB-3 or Framemeister, although these are specialty devices and not particularly cheap.

You want a display which can have deep blacks and clean areas of brightness. Displays which have brightness-emitting color elements are really good at this, such as plasmas, OLED, and the CRTs that vintage games were designed for. LEDs have more trouble since they rely on backlights that tend to have poor granularity and lots of light bleed, although the push around HDR video signaling has been leading to improvement.

If you're not extremely space-constrained, it's probably easier and much cheaper to just pick up an old CRT IMO.