@Zelpora
Yeah sorry, the stuff you said in your first comment is not wrong, though you can argue about it.
The one sentence i meant is wrong was: "If you played them on a CRT then you would get lag from it outputting a different resolution, not to mention it would look compacted, messing up spacing."
Why would you want carry heavy CRTs instead of a 1ms LCD? Lag on 1ms response time monitors are impossible to notice. No professional video game player ever complains about 1ms monitors unless they're cheap and crappy.
There are CRTs in sizes that can still be carried moderately well. Additionally, they're cheap and people almost throw them after you nowadays so that's one big advantage. Especially for small budgets i'd say they're better than expensive LCDs made especially for gaming.
CRT: cheap, no lag > gaming LCD: expensive, lag
Yes even if "unnoticable" it still exists.
Current gen excluded of course.
I'm a part of the FGC in that I watch and enter tournaments and every fighting game uses a monitor apart from Melee, which uses a CRT. The reason they use a CRT is due to the fact that it would lag having to upscale the game on a monitor. Same reason they don't use 1080i CRTs, since the game would have to upscale, so even that CRT would cause the game to lag.
Maybe now but when the PS3 and XBox360 which could still output lower resolutions easily were still big CRTs did have their place there.
About what you're claiming for 1080i stuff. I think you misunderstood me. I'm not talking about HD CRTs. There are certain professional monitors like some Sony BVM models that can display resolutions up to 1080i WITHOUT additional digital processing meaning they do not have lag. Of course for that you have to feed them a 1080i source and with that I meant, for example a PS4 or XBOX One (Dunno if the XBOX can do 1080i but the PS4 can) to show that even current gen could in theory use no lag CRTs. If you feed them lower resolution signals like 240p or something, of course they'll display in 240p without upscaling or any kind of lag.
What you thought of were consumer HD CRTs, which are honestly not good for gaming either way.
The fact that you're better off with just using an LCD for current gen fighting games which can't easily output lowres resolutions is definitely true.
Just wanted to say in theory it is possible to do it with 1080i.
last edited at Jul 10, 2017 7:46PM