I just picked up a Sony kv-40xbr800. It’s a huge 40” hd crt. I’ve used Lakka via composite on my old standard def trinitron crt. Any changes/suggestions to using this with the new family tv?
You’ll probably want to run at its native 720p resolution over HDMI and maybe use a scanline shader in the mix, since it won’t have natural scanlines of its own at that resolution.
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If I use 720p hdmi -> dvi, resolution will be letterboxed and games will be letterboxed again.
I assume component will yield the same issue? Or can I output 480p over component?
Or stick with composite?
Will shaders look weird with interlacing? 720p will be upscale to 1080i. I think 480p remains 480p.
Shaders indeed look weird with interlacing. You’ll want to avoid anything that will make it interlaced.
If it’ll stay 480p, use that, but you’ll probably run into the same issue that happens on an RPi via its composite-out: the horizontal scaling is either uneven or pillarboxed. See if it will let you run an ultra-wide resolution like 2560x480 or 1920x480. If it will accept that resolution, it will smooth out any fractional pixels and make everything look good horizontally. Vertically, you’ll just run at 2x res and you can use a scanline shader if you want (the interlacing shader in ‘misc’ will add solid black lines over every other line and then make them jitter on interlaced content so you get faux interlacing without all of the drawbacks of real interlacing).