Question about playing the dreamcast on a new TV.

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gjb1985
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Re: Question about playing the dreamcast on a new TV.

Post#11 » Mon Jan 23, 2017 7:24 am

krssn wrote:
mazonemayu wrote:when I need a new tv I always look for something that has vga, the brand is less important to me than the connections it has

From all the posts I've already seen here having a VGA port alone is not enough.

Better to bring your DC to the store and check if the VGA port is compatible with the DC's VGA signal.

this is better. I did this when I bought a hdtv specifically for my dreamcast. I brought it to the store to check on all tv's and the toshiba one I got did 1:1 pixel which looked by far the best

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Blarneo
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Re: Question about playing the dreamcast on a new TV.

Post#12 » Tue Jan 31, 2017 11:15 pm

gjb1985 wrote:
krssn wrote:
mazonemayu wrote:when I need a new tv I always look for something that has vga, the brand is less important to me than the connections it has

From all the posts I've already seen here having a VGA port alone is not enough.

Better to bring your DC to the store and check if the VGA port is compatible with the DC's VGA signal.

this is better. I did this when I bought a hdtv specifically for my dreamcast. I brought it to the store to check on all tv's and the toshiba one I got did 1:1 pixel which looked by far the best


I bet the sales drone was thinking "Why doesn't he just get an XBox?"

gjb1985
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Re: Question about playing the dreamcast on a new TV.

Post#13 » Wed Feb 01, 2017 6:18 am

Blarneo wrote:
gjb1985 wrote:
krssn wrote:From all the posts I've already seen here having a VGA port alone is not enough.

Better to bring your DC to the store and check if the VGA port is compatible with the DC's VGA signal.

this is better. I did this when I bought a hdtv specifically for my dreamcast. I brought it to the store to check on all tv's and the toshiba one I got did 1:1 pixel which looked by far the best


I bet the sales drone was thinking "Why doesn't he just get an XBox?"

I don't think he had a clue what dreamcast was. I also said I only buy the tv for dreamcast so if it doesn't look good I buy another tv.

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