This is what I'm reduced to - scouring ebay for 10 year old Tvs - Video killed the Radio star

Or I should say HDTV killed the SDTV star.

Want an SDTV in modern Britain? Well tought shit, because they don't sell them anymore. They are phased out.

Want to play old games like SNES classics or Dreamcast or wii games? Well have fun with the downgrade, the pixellation, the jaggies, the loss of definition and colour.

Playing DKC this week on an HDTV just makes a game which used to look nice, look like complete ass. So I'm reduced to this, to scouring ebay for second hand CRTs. And of course, CRTs are heavy. So no one wants to ship, so I have to try and find one within 10 miles or less so I can pick it up.

Oh, but even then you get a second hand tv that is years old and may crap out on you at any second. Let's try and forget that I would have to have two TVs in the same room, one for SD gaming.

Or there is the option of buying a new 14" complete piece of crap from an unknown and unreliable brand you've never heard of. And even finding those is like gold dust.

I feel worse than a hobo, scrabbling around for old scraps just so I can play games the way they were meant to be visualised.

HDTV fucked up, their first priority should be smooth and decent scaling. And, having a native resolution mode with borders. But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. That's beyond the limits of their imagination. How is it possible to show a 480 line picture on a 1080 line TV? It's unpossible!

Stoopid. Argh.

Posted by gamingeek Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:45:34 (comments: 14)
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Ravenprose
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:14:02
There's a Goodwill store less than a mile from my house, and it usually has around 10 CRT SDTVs of varying sizes. That's where I'd go if I needed one.
Ellyoda
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:37:55
Ravenprose said:
There's a Goodwill store less than a mile from my house, and it usually has around 10 CRT SDTVs of varying sizes. That's where I'd go if I needed one.

So buy one and ship it to GG.  Problem solved.

aspro
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:48:26
Yeah, geek does the thrift stores the UK have old sets? Or did the military-industrial complex buy them up?
gamingeek
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:54:29
No real thrift stores here but now that you mention it there is a store called cash convertors that might do it.

Charity shops, like Goodwill I assume, are not allowed by law to re-sell electrical goods, in case they are faulty.
Ellyoda
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:58:28
Try knocking door-to-door and offering cash for an SDTV.
aspro
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:03:51
Yodariquo said:
Try knocking door-to-door and offering cash for an SDTV.

Pantless.

gamingeek said:
No real thrift stores here but now that you mention it there is a store called cash convertors that might do it.


          Charity shops, like Goodwill I assume, are not allowed by law to re-sell electrical goods, in case they are faulty.

Interesting about the electircal goods.  I'm sure some retailer organization was behind that law.  Yeah we have Cash Convertors in AU too.  Pawn shops are always good for gaming stuff, not sure about Cash Convertors, I've never actually been to one.

Ravenprose
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:08:05
gamingeek said:
No real thrift stores here but now that you mention it there is a store called cash convertors that might do it.


          Charity shops, like Goodwill I assume, are not allowed by law to re-sell electrical goods, in case they are faulty.

Retro gamers would be pissed if they passed that law here, lol.

SteelAttack
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:08:28
Yodariquo said:
Try knocking door-to-door and offering cash for an SDTV.

Hello friend! Have you heard the good news about SDTV?

gamingeek
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:13:54
I checked Cash convertors online. They had 14 tvs in the entire country up for sale. None of them any good/appropiate and none near my area.
Dvader
 
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:49:35
Thanks for reminding me to add Video killed the radio star into my next update.
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