over here many years before digital foundry richard leadbetter wouldn’t shut up about scart cables in all of the mags and it always felt like a massive upgrade for me
like being stuck on rf for a month because you couldn’t get dreamcast scart cables at launch and then finding one was huge
rgb def yet another thing american youtubers have made insufferable though
i started RGB gaming over a decade ago and it still takes my breath away
every time I show someone new Sonic on my PVM they always remark how good it looks
composite is totally fine tho
i’d much rather play composite on a CRT than RGB on a flat panel
composite on a good TV or high end monitor that has proper comb filtering and accessible picture controls will look far and away better than composite piped into 99% of anything else
I have a composite-only 8 in. PVM and aside from the raw color reproduction, I can make it look as sharp as unfiltered output from an emulator
I played using RF as a kid. I eventually moved to composite for the 16-bit consoles then S-Video for the 32-bit and N64 era. S-Video was dope as hell. It seemed ideal for the Dreamcast on the 27" TV I bought in college. Of course, when I hooked it up to my 17" VGA monitor with the VGA cable I was floored.
I got into component video (Y/Pb/Pr) (Toshiba called it color stream?) in the PS2/GCN/Xbox era when TVs started having component video inputs for interlaced or even progressive scan. It was another nice step up in visual quality.
As I understand it, RGB Scart is a bit better than component as the sync signal has its own line. But I only ever used it seriously as a vector to go from old consoles to HDMI upscalers like the Framemeister. I ran RGBS to my PVM from several of the old consoles a few times, but it felt pretty far removed from the experience I remembered. It’s not a bad way to run your games, but you are altering the visual experience quite a bit (or not altering it enough?).
i have necked the entire bottle of rf/composite pills at this point
waiting for the arrival of the debate between coax RF and like them shits where you have to like screw two wires into the back of the tv
UHF converters are cool
it’s like you’re hacking the signal
oh god i forgot those, i think that two wire thing was how we had the NES hooked up
i lived on RF basically until the N64. Then composite. Never had s-video for anything. this is why i like my shaders extremely fucked up and crunchy
something I am not very proud of is that whenever anyone mentions S-Video I start doing “you gotta separate your luma from your chroma!” in a cosby voice
orange lcd 
Non-original peripherals but good overview of the PC
We had a vaio all-in-one circa 1999 with nice big doofy earmuff speakers jutting out the sides of the monitor but it was still in that very stately lavender-lilac throughout. I miss it…
it’s violet because it’s vaio-let
that’s not a joke that’s actually why it’s like that
I love this era of Sony so much
Putting this in both threads because I want to cover my bases:
I wish I could remember the make and model but I have failed and my Googling has also failed. I had a gigantic old 640x480 VGA projector, black, 2.5-3’ long, like a big square-barreled cannon jetting pixels at your wall.
It took I think 400W bulbs in a rather large metal enclosure that sort of CHUNKed into the body of the thing; they didn’t last long, weren’t actually bright at all compared to any sort of modern (and this was ~18 years ago; this projector must have been ancient even then), and became quite expensive to track down as there were fewer and fewer of them left. I think that’s why I finally had to ditch the thing. It ran pretty hot.
I fed it game video via XRGB-2. It had a 3.5" floppy drive built in, and I think it must’ve been a remote control with a screenshot button, so you could capture frames to a 3.5" disc! I suppose for storage space reasons, the captures were dithered down to 242 (??) colors, and came out looking sharp but speckled, like this:
It was rad.
