Just picked up an old CRT TV and holy moly this is a gamechanger

[Mr Puggsly]

SvennoJ said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Some games were designed for HD screens, like the text in Dead Rising. Many games looked great on a SD TV, hid visual problems more easily noticed on a HD screen.

I actually had a Sony CRT TV with component input and that was much more clear. MGS4 was also difficult to play due to text, but the component input actually made it clear. S-Video input is also much sharper than standard AV. I used S-Video for Dreamcast.

On a side note, there were actually a few 360 games that ran better at 480p. I suppose doing that made sense when SD TVs were still pretty common.

Some games took it way too far. I couldn't even read the cell phone text from gta4 on my 90" 1080p LCD projector screen. It seemed the games were made to play behind a monitor, not from a comfy couch.

360 had 1080p component output which looked great on my 34" widescreen trinitron. The text was perfectly readable in dead rising, however half of the hud and mission text was in the overscan area. LCD tvs were still pretty rare while devs apparently assumed everyone would be playing on a pc monitor :/ A problem that still persists with my ps4 connected to a 768p plasma tv. Always some crap hidden outside the visible area. Most games adjust to the global safe area settings, some still don't.

Now we have 4K, and my eyes are 15 years older, can't read anything anymore lol.

I have a 720p projector, the image tends to be soft compared to TV of equal resolution. The compromise is it can clean up jaggy visuals.

I have a 768p LCD TV. Modern consoles can switch between 720p and 1080p on it, but the pixels are obviously not fitting properly thus creating stretched pixels, mostly noticed in menus.  However, there is no problem with overscan because the picture size can be adjusted on the TV. I just use the 768p TV as a PC monitor because its big and its perfect for web browsing.

When it comes to reading small text, resolution hasn't been a problem since we hit 720p. But sometimes developer ought to consider we aren't like two feet away from the screen like PC gamers.