So I have one of these Sony WEGA rear projection LCD’s. It was very well taken care of, 1 owner, moved carefully. Tons of inputs. I have a DVD player on it going S video right now and it looks darn good to me, not washed out or anything.
I haven’t tested it yet, but do these suck for consoles? My main annoyance is lag on TV’s (why I can’t stand modern flatscreens). If it doesn’t have the best quality but has no lag, that’d be fine with me. I think I am seeing people confusing these with other types of projection TV’s and saying they have awful picture, but this doesn’t. It actually does say its “HD” (I think it does 480i and 720p? not sure on those, I haven’t got behind it to get the model # off yet.)
I have other CRT’s but they are 25" or below, it’d be nice to have a big one for split screen.
The best answer any of us can give you is “try it and see.” Sounds like you have strong preferences of what you want from a screen, so we won’t really be able to tell you if you’ll like it.
Also, since it’s a projection TV, it’s not a liquid-crystal display (LCD). :)
I thought that too, but it seemed like people were calling them LCD projection instead of CRT projection. I haven’t read up on that yet
They are neither LCD nor CRT. They are projection TVs.
There is no liquid-crystal display, and there is no cathode ray tube.
It might have used LCoS, which is lcd-ish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal_on_silicon?wprov=sfti1
3 color bulbs then? I wonder. The picture doesn’t have that washed out quality i usually recall seeing on projection sets.
I will take a guess that you won’t have any image lag issues whatsoever.
Pretty much all displays have imperceptible lag on actually displaying an image- a lot of consumer flat screen TV’s are terrible at it because of their controller being shite or intentionally lagging the image to do frame interpolation or some other kind of background processing. Older analog screens don’t do any of that, they get signal, display signal.
Typically, rear projection does have noticeable input lag. Some games back in the day, like Guitar Hero, had settings to adjust game speed to compensate.
