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Gaming Videos / Re: Titan's YouTube Adventures!

« Last post by Paul2 on August 26, 2024, 06:31:49 PM »

Forgot to post this a few days ago. Thought my Xbox was broken. It wasn't. Anyway, here's a video of that lol.

i didn't know the original xbox is that big until your video.  compares the xbox to both your hands shown in the video, i realize damn the xbox is that big.  it does make it looks like the original ps2 was greatly well built since its much smaller i think.  i only watched the first couple minutes of your video though.

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Gaming Videos / Re: Titan's YouTube Adventures!

« Last post by Paul2 on August 26, 2024, 06:24:20 PM »

Yeah you can say gaming is my biggest hobby lol. I like the collecting aspect of it.

cool.

Yeah it's a curved screen. It's from 1999 so it was before that time lol. My broken CRT is 20 inch (maybe 22). Component vs Composite I don't notice really any difference on a screen that small. On the big Panasonic at my parents. Yeah I saw a huge difference back in the day. When the wife and I get a house and I set up my gaming room, I'm taking that TV. That's the end game CRT lol.

yeah.  i think yours is also a 20" but with component video support and side speakers.  how big is your panasonic crt tv?  it's also flatscreen?

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Gaming Videos / Re: Titan's YouTube Adventures!

« Last post by Titan on August 25, 2024, 05:26:59 PM »

Forgot to post this a few days ago. Thought my Xbox was broken. It wasn't. Anyway, here's a video of that lol.

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Gaming Videos / Re: Titan's YouTube Adventures!

« Last post by Titan on August 25, 2024, 05:25:40 PM »

Yeah you can say gaming is my biggest hobby lol. I like the collecting aspect of it.

I have no clue what audio codecs it supports. I found it for 20 bucks at Goodwill and does the job so I'm happy with it for now lol.

Yeah it's a curved screen. It's from 1999 so it was before that time lol. My broken CRT is 20 inch (maybe 22). Component vs Composite I don't notice really any difference on a screen that small. On the big Panasonic at my parents. Yeah I saw a huge difference back in the day. When the wife and I get a house and I set up my gaming room, I'm taking that TV. That's the end game CRT lol.

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Off-Topic / Re: Building a 4 Player Arcade Machine.

« Last post by Titan on August 25, 2024, 05:21:25 PM »

Lookin' good!

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Off-Topic / Re: Building a 4 Player Arcade Machine.

« Last post by §ôµÏG®ïñD on August 24, 2024, 04:36:31 AM »

Update,

Got pretty sick, was out of action for a good 1.5 weeks.

Done the wraps on the sides, T-Molded one side but didn't have quite enough for other side.  Got more T-mold on order which should come monday.

A few pics of the wraps done.   Once i can do the t-molding, the real fun starts!!!!

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Happy Birthday board / Happy Birthday nO-One and Jar O Pickles

« Last post by Paul2 on August 19, 2024, 07:55:39 AM »

Happy Birthday nO-One and Jar O Pickles.

since there are 2 people having the same birthday.  might as well post 2 full length songs here.  first song is ff8 battle theme where i think if it were play in wider keys, the song will potentially sound great instead of just kind of good.

second song is a vietnamese song and i thought the girl in hula hoop can sing better if she sings in higher keys and wider range.  she has a very good wide range voice and i think she was being humble singing this song.  its still sounds good on how she sings it, but could potentially sounds much better if she sings it in wider range.  i didn't know the guy playing the guitar in the video is the original songwriter of this song until just now as i searched for this song on youtube.  interesting.

so how have you guys been and what did you guys do and get on your birthday?

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Gaming Videos / Re: Titan's YouTube Adventures!

« Last post by Paul2 on August 19, 2024, 03:23:32 AM »

I dunno off the top of my head and not gonna count right now lol. It's a lot. All my HDMI consoles go into one switch (PS3,PS4, Xbox 360 (which itself is VGA to HDMI adapter then to the switch), Wii U, Dreamcast) except for the PS5 which just goes right into the TV. Then I have my component switch which has PS2, Xbox, Wii which goes to a component to HDMI adapter to the TV. It's a mess.

wow, that is a lot.  is gaming your biggest hobby or something?

I dunno. 1 or 2?

oh.  that is strange that it only has 1 or 2 hdmi inputs there.  what audio codecs does it support?

No. It's mono. Has one AV and one audio input. I'll have to get creative with the receiver. I got it for my birthday in like 1999 or 2000 or something like that. It was pretty much my bedroom TV until shortly after college when I bought my HDTV. Did a lot of gaming on it back then. Also has a VCR built in which if I remember right is eating tapes which should be an easy fix.

wow.  your 13" tv only has one composite video connection and mono audio connection.  not only that but i suspect your tv is not flat but curved.  bravos to you for managing to play video games on such a small screen and crappier video and truncated audio connection.  its makes me not so mad at my mom for buying me a 20" composite video connections back then.  but still, i would have been much happier if it has component video connection though.

looking back, within 1 or 2 years after my mom bought me the wrong tv, maybe i should have went with her to buy me another crt tv with component connection and bigger 24" instead of 20" since a table stand that i found in my mom's kitchen nearly a year later after she bought me the wrong tv that i moved it to my bedroom and used it to put the 20" tv on.  this table stand supports up to 24" TV there.  not only that but i would like it even more if i buy the 24" tv with side speakers instead of bottom speakers for better sound which mean it will be a bit more expensive and that extra cost might means even better picture quality, especially in component video.  If i did buy such tv, then i would have moved the 20" tv to my mom's bedroom despite that she hardly ever watch tv but my oldest brother does that time and he lived in the same bedroom but separate beds with my mom.

then i would have enjoyed this dream 24" tv for nearly 2 decades before i buy an oled tv that i like a lot to replace it.  if only i could turn back time that is.

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Gaming Videos / Re: Titan's YouTube Adventures!

« Last post by Titan on August 18, 2024, 08:20:26 AM »

how many consoles were plugged into the switches that goes to the tv if you don't mind me asking?

I dunno off the top of my head and not gonna count right now lol. It's a lot. All my HDMI consoles go into one switch (PS3,PS4, Xbox 360 (which itself is VGA to HDMI adapter then to the switch), Wii U, Dreamcast) except for the PS5 which just goes right into the TV. Then I have my component switch which has PS2, Xbox, Wii which goes to a component to HDMI adapter to the TV. It's a mess.

how many hdmi inputs does your av receiver has if you don't mind me asking?

I dunno. 1 or 2?

yeah.  does your much older 13" tv have component video input or s-video?  wow, its interesting you could live with playing videogames on a really small 13" tv back then.

No. It's mono. Has one AV and one audio input. I'll have to get creative with the receiver. I got it for my birthday in like 1999 or 2000 or something like that. It was pretty much my bedroom TV until shortly after college when I bought my HDTV. Did a lot of gaming on it back then. Also has a VCR built in which if I remember right is eating tapes which should be an easy fix.

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Gaming Videos / Re: Titan's YouTube Adventures!

« Last post by Paul2 on August 18, 2024, 04:19:47 AM »

I work construction so mounting a TV mount was easy lol. It just needs to be screwed into the stud is all so it can handle the weight. The receiver does have HDMI but with so many consoles plugged into switches then plugged into the TV it would have been a nightmare to wire. So I just use the optical out from the TV and have that going in the receiver. Super easy. And the reason the rears aren't hooked up is mostly for my wife. Our living room is small and the speakers are literally like 6 inches from our heads lol. My wife likes to unwind at night and having my games blaring into her head is not the best thing lol. So I unplugged them for her.

how many consoles were plugged into the switches that goes to the tv if you don't mind me asking?

yeah using the optical out from the tv to the receiver does simplify things but if you have a blu ray player or 4k blu ray player or gaming consoles that support blu-ray or later like 4k blu-ray, they support lossless high res audios like dolby true hd and dts hdma and later like dolby atmos and dts x which are also lossless surround sound audios.  unfortunately optical audio connections does not support uncompressed or lossless high def audio like dolby true hd or dolby atmos for examples mostly because of copy protection and legacy optical audio connection bandwidth isn't high enough to transfer uncompressed or lossless high res surround sounds i think.

if you play a videogame or watch a movie with dolby atmos lossless, it will convert it to lossy codec in order for it to transfer to the receiver that means you won't get a pristine clean audio quality.  i think that is why connecting say like a 4k blu-ray player to the receiver hdmi would be better to get that pure uncompressed sound.  if your 4k blu-ray player has two hdmi connections like one for audio/video and the 2nd one for audio only, connection the 2nd one audio only to the receiver hdmi in, you will get better sound that way while the 1st hdmi connection connected to the tv's hdmi for video.  but for older consoles that doesn't have uncompressed or lossless compressed multi-channel high res audio sources, using the optical out from the tv to the receiver should be fine i think.

how many hdmi inputs does your av receiver has if you don't mind me asking?

I mean it's like anything. You learn by doing and researching. I'm still learning all the time. You don't learn any skill without practice.

It's gonna be a while lol. I'm picking up my old 13 inch CRT from my parents house tomorrow to hold me over until I get either another TV or fix this one.

yeah.  does your much older 13" tv have component video input or s-video?  wow, its interesting you could live with playing videogames on a really small 13" tv back then.