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Panasonic TV screenshots

My first attempt at using a TV with s-video was a Panasonic 27" TV, model DT-27D11.  The results were pretty good, but the TV was too big for my cabinet - doh!  Experimenting with screen settings produced differing results.  Some resolutions had noticable screen bend on the vertical edges, some filled the screen edge to edge.  This is using normal MAME with no command line switches.  I expect I probably would have gotten better results using some of the tweaks.  Here are screen shots.



 

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The TV - it didn't look so big in the store!

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Star Wars screenshot.  This is *before* I tweaked video card and TV settings.  This is "out of the box" ...

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Robotron, pre adjustments.  I did get some of the sparklies reported by other people in this game.  Didn't see them on any other game.  I belive the blur top right is because it was in motion.
 

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Indiana Jones looked really good.  
 

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Close up of the Indiana Jones screen.
 

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StarWars after some tweaking of settings.  This picture and the next five have the brightness turned up quite a bit.  Later I try it with other tweaks, but the brightness down.  Looked better then.  Still very clear here, especially for a vector game!
 

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The red does not seem to be bleeding as some have noticed elsewhere.  However the blue does a bit...
 

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Close up of the red text.  Looks great to me.

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Another shot.  Looks really good to me, I was surprised.

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Star Wars at 27" is da bomb!  This I could play.  See Tempest below for one not so playable.
 

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Last shot at the high brightness.  Lettering looks really good here.  The banding distortion on the left side of the screen is a camera affect, and 100% cannot be seen when looking at the TV "live" - this is a common problem with camera pictures of TVs.
 

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Brightness turned down, the blue is somewhat hard to read.  Looked a *bit* better live, but still noticable.
 

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This looks pretty good to me.
 

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Another shot.  Although a bit dark, finding a good compromise between vector and raster games shouldn't be hard.
 

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The green text looks good.  Close up shot.
 

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Tempest suffered the most of those I tried.  I believe individual game-video settings would help improve this somewhat.
 

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Sinistar.  Er... can't think of a comment :)
 


 
 

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