2 years ago on my birthday in december, my wife surprised me with a Microsoft XBOX and a copy of HALO. Three weeks later, my Dad surprised me with a Playstation 2. I felt like I was 10 again and getting an Atari 2600 for xmas 
It was a good Xmas...
At first I connected both systems to my CRT RPTV, a 65" Mits widescreen from 2001. The few XBOX games I bought over the years, none of them supported widescreen mode (Mechassault, Crimson Skies, Splinter Cell and Rallisport challenge...)......but it was still ok. Cuz 480p was pretty. But the PS2 was damn near unplayable at that size, while connected via SVIDEO. Every game I tried was just flat-out ugly and pixelated.
So, I went out and bought a 27" Flatscreen CRT TV just for the purposes of gaming...and for the most part, its been a wise choice.
However, lately the urge to take the xbox back to the bigscreen has been nipping at my heels. If I fried my Mits I probably couldn't afford to replace it right away with anything better, so caution has kept me from actually doing it.
Yeah, I'm terrified of burn-in.
But with so many XBOX games now in the $20 range, and all of them (well, besides a few of them) support native widescreen modes, I am so frickin jonesing to go back to the bigscreen.
But burn in is still a fear.
See, I tend to play my games in these long marathons.......I can easily burn up 8 hours on a Saturday playing games. Granted, I've also watched lots of 2.35:1 movies in a row too.....but somehow I think that games with their higher contrast images (maps, health bars, even images that dont move much like bobbing guns in halo, or the cars in most driving games)....fill me with dread.
So I was curious.....have any of you with CRT RP's actually had a problem with burn in? The only "burn in" I've heard people complaining about have been from people who left their set in 4:3 mode all the time.....and I'd probably play 4:3 games on the bigscreen stretched out.
But Grand Theft Auto double-pack....Project Gotham 2...Rallisport 2.....these all have native widescreen modes....and its so tempting.
Anyone? Anyone?

It was a good Xmas...
At first I connected both systems to my CRT RPTV, a 65" Mits widescreen from 2001. The few XBOX games I bought over the years, none of them supported widescreen mode (Mechassault, Crimson Skies, Splinter Cell and Rallisport challenge...)......but it was still ok. Cuz 480p was pretty. But the PS2 was damn near unplayable at that size, while connected via SVIDEO. Every game I tried was just flat-out ugly and pixelated.
So, I went out and bought a 27" Flatscreen CRT TV just for the purposes of gaming...and for the most part, its been a wise choice.
However, lately the urge to take the xbox back to the bigscreen has been nipping at my heels. If I fried my Mits I probably couldn't afford to replace it right away with anything better, so caution has kept me from actually doing it.
Yeah, I'm terrified of burn-in.
But with so many XBOX games now in the $20 range, and all of them (well, besides a few of them) support native widescreen modes, I am so frickin jonesing to go back to the bigscreen.
But burn in is still a fear.
See, I tend to play my games in these long marathons.......I can easily burn up 8 hours on a Saturday playing games. Granted, I've also watched lots of 2.35:1 movies in a row too.....but somehow I think that games with their higher contrast images (maps, health bars, even images that dont move much like bobbing guns in halo, or the cars in most driving games)....fill me with dread.
So I was curious.....have any of you with CRT RP's actually had a problem with burn in? The only "burn in" I've heard people complaining about have been from people who left their set in 4:3 mode all the time.....and I'd probably play 4:3 games on the bigscreen stretched out.
But Grand Theft Auto double-pack....Project Gotham 2...Rallisport 2.....these all have native widescreen modes....and its so tempting.
Anyone? Anyone?