Xbox 360 on a 1988 RCA Colortrak 2000 TV

[The Clonus Horror]

So, I have the aforementioned TV, along with a 42" 720p Panasonic. I had been using the 360 on the HDTV with an HDMI cable and-obviously-it looked great. Just for shits-n-giggles, I thought I'd hook it up to the old RCA via S-Video (yes, the TV from '88 has an S-video jack). I actually liked the picture and color just as much as on the Panasonic! The colors were a little more dull, but in a good way. Blood wasn't cartoon red, it was more reddish-brown. Skin tones were a bit more "natural" as well. But here is the biggest difference that I noticed: I played for about 4 hours and my eyeballs didn't feel as though they were drying up. I noticed that I can't play on the bigger HDTV for more than two hours without feeling the dry-eye. Also, the freakin' speakers on the old RCA blow away anything I've seen on a standard def or high def TV in the last ten years. I found the RCA during a property inspection of a foreclosed property. I took it under my wing knowing full well that the department of agriculture was just going to haul all of the stuff away and trash it. I knew nothing about the Colortrak 2000 and it only caught my eye because it had the faux wood grain like an old Atari 2600. I figured it wouldn't have anything more than a coaxial connection on the back, so you can imagine my surprise when I found 3 coaxials, 3 composite, and an S-video jack, not to mention outputs for external speakers as well. This thing is only 25" but it's a freakin' BEAST! Anyway, has anyone else experienced "dry-eye" in high-def, or has anyone else hooked up their modern console to an older TV and found that they like it just as much (if not more) than high-def? Am I just an old curmudgeon?

[OldSchoolGamer]

Well not all changes in modern electronics are for the better or useful for everyone. I would trade all the 1080p and "Hi Def" features to simply have a TV that displays NTSC/PAL perfectly like an old 1084 commodore monitor, more useful for me since I collect import stuff. Also, yeah audio wise I would kill to have back my old JVC Boombox, I forget the model but it was black, heavy as hell and could separate into a small mini component stereo. The thing was that thing had watts to spare, sure it ate batteries like nobody's business but damn, cranked up you could hear me approaching and I am not talking distorted bass but LOUD and CLEAR power. I never have seen a "portable" that could reach that level of loud before or since! Of course I appreciate all the modern advances of electronics but I find it odd that I cannot purchase new, at any price a portable that has the power I witnessed in that old JVC.

[Sonicwolf]

Our 1988 RCA Colortrak was an excellent tv. It had an incredible picture (much better than my new LCD screen) and lasted one month short of its 20th birthday. It crapped out for the most part in January 2008. I wish it still worked. Alot of memories playing my first video games on it. From Super Nintendo to Nintendo 64, lots of games put through that thing. It still sits near me too... acting as a stand for my modem and router. LOL