Are you a retrogamer?

[Cerebralbore101]

HoloDust said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

As someone that owns a multi-format BVM and several PVMs, I'll attest to the Tink 4K being much better than GPU shaders. Lots of other retrogamers agree, because they wouldn't pay $700 for it otherwise. You could just pass the signal from your older game systems through your PC for less than that otherwise. Also, yeah, videos on the internet do not do a PVM, BVM, or Tink 4K justice. It needs to be seen IRL. 

I would love to see RetroTINK 4K in person - from what I know (theoretically) on what it can do, they did a really great job with CRT emulation, especially for folks who aim for that "BVM/PVM via component cables" feel. I know it can do consumer via composite pretty good, it's just that for someone like me that actually wants for 80s games to look like they did in 80s on consumer TVs, I don't think that hardware inside of it can physically emulate everything that highest end GPU shaders (that can gobble up so much of modern GPUs that it's ridiculous) can. 

But yeah, it's certainly remarkable box, and if I was in the market for such standalone box at this moment, I would certainly go with it due all the things it offers, ease of use and pretty much no additional latency.

Consumer sets in the 80's would be composite or RF. I've never tried to emulate either on a Tink 4K. There's just no need. Component, S-Video, and RGB Scart all look better and keep the games looking authentic. I'll see if anyone with a Tink4K has bothered to try and respond with what they say.