Atari consoles on LCD/LED tvs

[bigbacon]

Trying to figure this out.

So Atari Jaguar, hooked up to both of my 32" tvs, using svideo, causes major ghosting and color smearing/tearing. I've tried hooking it up directly to the TV and through and old DVD recorder that is connected to the TV through s-video or component video. Same thing either way. Odd thing is it doesn't do this on my 50" plasma tv. Wolf 3d looks REALLY BAD.

Same thing with the atari 5200 or 2600 using RF. No ghosting but the colors are smeared around. Same connection deal either directly to TV or thru recorded. Looks fine on my 50" plasma.

I don't notice ghosting with other consoles like my SNES hooked up through Svideo.

Is there a way to get this stuff to work well on newer tvs and is there a certain tv that won't cause this? Is it that the cheaper LEDs just suck?

At first I thought it was just my 32" LCD westinghouse from 2006..but I just picked up a newer 32" LED tv which does the same thing.

[Niku-Sama]

Check and see if there's a game mode and try that out. Some times it helps

[bigbacon]

neither TV has a game mode

[Niku-Sama]

well then it sounds like your tv is like mine and just sucks for old games.

bad input lag, and general crappyness.... my thinking is get a CRT for a few bucks and keep it in the corner, or find a cheap used plasma if you want large format

[Trebuken]

Most older systems can be modded one way or another for better video out. There is also the scaler route for S-Video composite and newer connections. Scalers can be expensive -- the framemeister is often cited. It's about $300 and I believe you may need to buy SCART cables (Do you need SCART with it or can it also work with S-Video or Composite? I dunno). Cheaper scalars exist, results vary.

[Tanooki]

Bad TV for the stuff when my kid cracked my old LCD that ran stuff like avcrt quality wise and with no lag problems I wanted another. Found a 29" $250 WiFi enabled vizio led TV with a 25ms lag (sub 30) is optimal that scales amazing even on testy n64 stuff. TV came out in 2014 so if you can find it that may be an option. Cheaper than guesswork withna scaler and buying more cables.