Sweet vintage RGB tv pick-up. TV experts, what do I have?

Started by satoshi_matrix, September 21, 2011, 09:19:14 am

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Phosphora

Awhile back I picked up an American Bang & Olufsen BeoVision MX5000 or MX5500 CRT that had Scart RGB input. This is generally unheard of on American TVs.  I guess the TV must have been both NTSC and PAL to support such a feature? Japanese RGB cables didn't work, so it's definitely a SCART input. I racked up many a' gaming hours playing SNES and Sega Saturn on my new beloved known as RGB! :D
I encourage any US gamers to seek one of these out if you can find one on the cheap. Only downside is that the thing weighs a ton, and the remote control functions are very confusing.

Frank_fjs

NTSC/PAL doesn't enter the equation when using an RGB SCART connection, as RGB has no colour encoding.

I live in Australia and SCART TV's aren't too common here, but they do exist. I picked up a nice Grundig CRT TV for console gaming and it has an RGB SCART connection, looks awesome!

Here are some shots I took with a crappy digital camera of my Master System running in RGB:





Sorry about it being Alex Kidd, that probably won't go down too well on a Nintendo forum lol, but Sega were nice enough to include native RGB output on most of their consoles whereas Nintendo seemed to want us to be content with RF or composite output only. :'(