[treve]

Count me in as someone who likes vintage hardware but modern displays. In my case it's old game consoles.

The drop in video quality with composite is real. This has less to do with the resolution, but more with the fact that hardware that upscales this to an HD or 4K panel needs to make an educated guess where pixels start and end, and gets it wrong.

It looks quite ugly practically and switching to something with crisp pixels is usually very worth it.

For old game consoles it's often enough to switch to RGB or Component and you don't have to go full digital. Composite (and RF) are quite bad.

This is not an audiophile type of distinction, it's very visible and obvious to almost anyone.

[gwbas1c]

> The drop in video quality with composite is real.

Remember, this is CGA. Some games specifically take advantage of composite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors

Likewise, remember that the monitor connector is digital. If you build an HDMI (or DVI, DisplayPort, whatever) converter, you're starting with a digital signal, not an analog one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Specifi...

[gwbas1c]

> Count me in as someone who likes vintage hardware but modern displays

I should also add that, if you change the graphics card in an old PC, you're inserting a huge variable when it comes to playing a game on "vintage hardware."

Some games resorted to various tricks, whatever, that might not be emulated correctly on the new graphics card.

Again, that's why I find the idea of a "modern" CGA silly: When you use it, you no longer have vintage hardware, and the CGA connector is digital so there's no need to worry about a loss in quality.