Connecting a retro console emulator to a modern tv
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I bought a cheap Ali Express NES emulator trinket (more specifically, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001227220456.html ), but the video quality on my 2016 Samsung TV is horrible: colors seem washed out, there is lots of blurring and striping artefacts, input signal feels very sluggish... I've played a bit with the TV's config options and that helps somewhat but it's nowhere near what I remember it looking like on CRT's 30-ish years ago.
I've googled a bit but it seems that the most common advice is to buy a several hundred dollar specialty converter. That's a bit too much relative to my $15 emulator.
So my question is - are there other ways to get a better experience with these cheap emulators? For example, if I buy a cheap composite to HDMI converter and plug that into a computer monitor, would that work better? Or are there formats I can convert into that TV's don't do processing on, assuming that all problems stem from that processing? Or maybe there are other options I didn't think about? Thanks.
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I had to face the same problem when I decided to connect my old PSX to new 4K TV. It was really a nightmare. Unfortunately, there does not exist any good solution for native retro platforms. The easiest and painless way is to play on emulators, but if it is not satisfying for you too, I understand your point of view - I have the same.
Here is my topic where I had a similar problem to yours and as you can see there, I did not receive a full answer. However, I recommend you to read the comments under my question because as far as I remember, those guys mentioned a few times some reasonable workarounds:
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/390102/which-type-of-screen-will-provide-good-video-quality-for-psx-ps2Of course, the final conclusion is that retro gear works the best with old, heavy kinescope TV.
