HD Ready in 2024

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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I’ve got a corner of my office set up with a 12 year old Logik something something 24” TV that was £150 and is 1080p 60Hz and has a couple of HDMI, scart component VGA and composite. This is very useful as I hook up my PS2, Dreamcast, project PC, PS3 and xboz360 to it in various combinations but not all at the same time. However Image quality and sound quality is pretty crap, and it doesn’t recognise some PC inputs over HDMI (I use it for project PC stuff too).

I’m looking to replace it with a new cheapo TV 24” to 32” and I am amazed that you can still buy 720p TVs (at 50Hz no less) in 2024. Some with HDR support lol. However they sound pretty useful for my needs, ie hooking up 720p consoles and composite PS2 (sadly can’t find any scart or component TVs)

So Is the image quality on these cheapo 720p TVs going to be beyond terrible? I am assuming it is better than my 12 year old TV. I don’t mind 720p for the project PC stuff.
 
I have a 480p TV in our bedroom. I think it’s a 21“ 16/9. Picture is terrible with the built in TV tuner, but it’s not bad at all with the Shield TV tube I use with it. Also looks fine with the Wii.

surely there are comparable 1080p or even 4k tvs about now though. I bought a 42“ panasonic 4k a couple of years ago for about £350.
 
I think the PS3 and certain models of Xbox 360 output at 1080p. The games themselves often run at sub-720p resolution so I don't think they'd look much if any better on a native 720p display. Also, most of these cheap HD-Ready TVs run a non-720p like 1366x768 so you get some amount of bad scaling either way.
 
Actually, the PS3 does not look good on a 4K TV - I've been discussing this on one of the recent PS3 threads here... the main issue being 'aliasing' or 'jagged edges'. Not sure if it's the issue of the picture being stretched, or not scaling properly (I'm no expert on resolutions) but yeah, doesn't look good at all. It's why those adapters exist like the marseille mclassic, and the new retro 4k adapter to make 720p/1080p consoles look smooth on 4k resolutions.
 
I played a bunch of games on my PS3 last year (various Ratchet & Clanks plus MGS 1-4) on my 4K OLED and they looked fine. Obviously visuals and resolution aren't up to modern standards but you soon look past that.
 
When shopping for a smaller TV i always go minimum 1080, when i was looking for a 32" for the little girl there dose seem to be loads of HD ready TV's but for only a few ££'s more there is always a 1080p option
 
Could always go second hand. I have a 20” Sony from 2013 with every conceivable input, and a Panasonic from around the same era and size. They are both 720p sets and I use them specifically for my older consoles.

They have scart, component, hdmi, vga….much more comprehensive than today’s sets. And I’m willing to bet their picture is better than a cheap brand tv from today.
 
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Dyson said:
Something like this?

Jsdoin Scart to HDMI Converter, with HDMI Cable Scart Adapter Support HDMI 720/1080P for Smartphone to HDTV STB PS3 Sky DVD Blu-ray https://amzn.eu/d/8rmslGj
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These don’t work, it causes to much lag. You’re better of just buying an old TV. I got one for my PS2 and it was so laggy it was unplayable.

A old (or old tech) TV is the way to go for this. Maybe an emulator would be another way to go if you want a modern tech TV.
 
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Reuben klang said:
These don’t work, it causes to much lag. You’re better of just buying an old TV. I got one for my PS2 and it was so laggy it was unplayable.

A old (or old tech) TV is the way to go for this. Maybe an emulator would be another way to go if you want a modern tech TV.
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Have never tried on of these, I luckily gave an old TV set up in our games room with all the old school connections.
 
theone8181 said:
My old ps2 has composite video, and a start adapter, maybe if something only has a start out there might be some sort of adapter?
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Kaico do a PS2 to HDMI adapter, it's powered by one of the front USB ports (or a separate power supply if you like), it doesn't work with PS1 games played on the PS2 but for everything else it's pretty decent.
 
TheVoice said:
Kaico do a PS2 to HDMI adapter, it's powered by one of the front USB ports (or a separate power supply if you like), it doesn't work with PS1 games played on the PS2 but for everything else it's pretty decent.
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Sorry only just realised my phone had autocorrected scart. I wonder if the lag is as much to do with the tvs these days, ps2 and earlier were really designed around crt so maybe they just assume 0 input lag?
 
almoststew1990 said:
I’ve got a corner of my office set up with a 12 year old Logik something something 24” TV that was £150 and is 1080p 60Hz and has a couple of HDMI, scart component VGA and composite. This is very useful as I hook up my PS2, Dreamcast, project PC, PS3 and xboz360 to it in various combinations but not all at the same time. However Image quality and sound quality is pretty crap, and it doesn’t recognise some PC inputs over HDMI (I use it for project PC stuff too).

I’m looking to replace it with a new cheapo TV 24” to 32” and I am amazed that you can still buy 720p TVs (at 50Hz no less) in 2024. Some with HDR support lol. However they sound pretty useful for my needs, ie hooking up 720p consoles and composite PS2 (sadly can’t find any scart or component TVs)

So Is the image quality on these cheapo 720p TVs going to be beyond terrible? I am assuming it is better than my 12 year old TV. I don’t mind 720p for the project PC stuff.
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Why not just grab a steam deck and play on that? I play all my dreamcast games on that now
 
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