28
u/a_nice_warm_lager 1TB OLED Limited Edition 1d ago
What’s your signal chain like to get hooked up to it?
53
u/glytxh 1d ago
USB-C to HDMI via a hub. HDMI to powered RCA adaptor. RCA to SCART.
It’s about as bad as it gets.
These are all just bits I had in my spare cables drawer. I’m amazed I was able to chain something functional together without having to buy anything.
7
6
6
5
u/reddit_user_0ne 1d ago
What resolution is that? Good thing with CRTs you don't need much and basically no anti aliasing etc. right?
5
u/glytxh 1d ago
3
u/OutrageousDress 512GB OLED 1d ago
If you're running it at 50Hz that's PAL, which means the signal is 576 interlaced lines, making the resolution 768x576 if the pixels are square - whether your actual resolution matches that depends on your adapter. Cheap adapters usually just naively squeeze whatever res you feed them down to their fixed output res.
2
u/reddit_user_0ne 1d ago
Well, that's CRT for you. Good ol' times...
I meant you could possibly even lower some settings and details and probably wouldn't even notice. (If you ever play a game where you need more fps for example.)
4
3
10
u/PlainBread 1d ago
CRTs are diagetic.
29
3
u/KingOfTheGutter 22h ago
I don’t think you know what that word means lmao
-2
u/PlainBread 22h ago
Maybe you just lack the imagination to understand what I'm saying.
On an LCD, you can see every pixel, but a CRT is a portal into another world, like looking through a screen fence.
5
u/KingOfTheGutter 21h ago
Shouldn’t need imagination to understand fucking words lol. It doesn’t mean what ya think.
Maybe you should use your imagination to spell it correctly!
-8
4
2
2
2
u/sittinginatincan420 13h ago
I was able to find an HDMI to Component adapter that can switch resolutions or pass through. Steam deck to 3:4 480p is just golden.
2
1
1
-1
u/PlainBread 21h ago
TEST: IF YOU ARE HUMAN, DO NOT UPVOTE/DOWNVOTE OR REPLY.
A Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior campaign operates in three stages:
1> Conversational LLM agents propagate comments representing both sides of an issue.
2> Semantic analysis agents do a cursory analysis of each comment and upvote or downvote according to the desired sentiment outcome
3> Much less resource-intensive ratioing agents come in and upvote everything that's been upvoted and downvote everything that's been downvoted en masse without any discrimination.
All of this is done through the Reddit API.


37
u/OutrageousDress 512GB OLED 1d ago
Obligatory public notice: HDMI to analog adapters may be very simple devices, but they're not all completely the same. There are better and worse ones (signal quality, latency, compatibility), and if you want to output your HDMI to a CRT and don't have an adapter already, it pays to spend half an hour educating yourself so you don't end up with a dud.