Plasterboard so not ideal with the weight. I think the Magnus labs one would work but reluctant to spend £300 on an arm
CRT Vs Retrotink 4k
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Should be ok if you screw into the stud battens. You can get stud finders, but they can be a bit hit and miss (literally). I have a wall mount arm for the TV in my games room. I got one with mounting holes all long the top and bottom of the fixing plate, so it could be fixed to the studs. I also got my builder to install it, which helped. 😆
I'm old enough to have more experience looking at CRT than I have flat screens, plus I do have one in the Space Ace next to my desk just not sure one for retro computing is worth the hassle of trying to find a workable space for it if a retrotink and oled could get me most of the way to a similar look and smooth movement (plus whenever I turn the Space Ace on I can feel a for sale advert for a non working arcade coming on)
I used a stud finder when I drilled into the cable 🤣
Lol. Yeah, the trouble is that cables are often fixed next to studs.
I actually used to have a pair of those 😁You need these...
adammoogle
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Nothing comes close to a CRT for motion clarity IMO. The retrotink and a good OLED are a good option if you don't have space. As good as Oleds get, it's still sample and hold technology so there is blurring - mitigated by the black frame insertion trick which sacrifices brightness for greater clarity. None of the options are perfect! Playing old games with the crt filters enabled on a 50inch + OLED is impactful!
It's worth noting that BFI and other methods to improve motion clarity also add input lag, so if you want the best motion clarity + input lag, CRT will probably always be the way to go.
Since BFI needs to output at a higher refresh rate than the source, it'll have to buffer a part of the input frame so that it can scan everything out at once. This starts off at 50% of the source's frametime with standard 1 frame video, 1 frame black BFI (so 8ms of added lag for 60Hz), and tends towards a full frame of lag as you add more black frames.
Personally though, 90% of the time I just play through my retrotink (with no BFI), CRTs are nice but they're a bit of a faff compared to just turning on an upscaler and playing, I usually only turn mine on if I know I'm going to play for a while when going for a good score or whatever.
Since BFI needs to output at a higher refresh rate than the source, it'll have to buffer a part of the input frame so that it can scan everything out at once. This starts off at 50% of the source's frametime with standard 1 frame video, 1 frame black BFI (so 8ms of added lag for 60Hz), and tends towards a full frame of lag as you add more black frames.
Personally though, 90% of the time I just play through my retrotink (with no BFI), CRTs are nice but they're a bit of a faff compared to just turning on an upscaler and playing, I usually only turn mine on if I know I'm going to play for a while when going for a good score or whatever.
Del Griffith
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I'd get rid of the oven and the missus and fit that 19" Crt in.
Don't pay a premium for dog poo when you can buy a cheap can of dog food and enjoy before the dog even gets a look in. Hell no to that flatscreen nonsense
Don't pay a premium for dog poo when you can buy a cheap can of dog food and enjoy before the dog even gets a look in. Hell no to that flatscreen nonsense