Give me a Maglite miners cap over a SP any day of the week.
Backlight
Frontlight
Doesn't matter
After spending all this time with the GBA SP, it got me thinking back to the other handheld designs which featured a backlight. The GBA SP of course uses a frontlit design.
In your recent or past experience - which do you ideally prefer, and why?
Smack my Bitch Up
Give me a Maglite miners cap over a SP any day of the week.
Das Vampyr Jäger
I prefer backlit, it just looks more natural if the light is coming from behind the screen. It's also often more evenly lighted across the screen.
Unfortunately there has yet to be a backlit portable which doesn't drain batteries like a MFer, so I'll gladly take the tradeoff of significantly longer battery life and less-even lighting frontlights provide. But in a PERFECT world...backlight all the way
omg TNL epics!
Old Country Doctor
Backlighting seems to reduce glare, too. But I guess since I haven't played a handheld console in like 9 years, it doesn't matter much.
the original and best
The only backlit I've played was the Game Gear, and it always seemed pretty washed out. I don't need a console to provide light in a dark cave. I just need to see the screen.
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Smack my Bitch Up
Good, so I wasn't the only one. Like I said, though you may have a little glare, Maglite's taped to a helmet are the way to go.Originally posted by burgundy
The only backlit I've played was the Game Gear, and it always seemed pretty washed out.
omg scanlines suck
Backlight for better color reproduction, frontlight for better battery life. I choose the frontlight.
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light from a dead star
Backlight definitely looks better... but the battery issue is a legit drawback.
However, it's been a while since a new backlit unit came out. You cannot compare SP to GameGear. With more modern screen/battery technology the battery issue might not be so bad.... so I'll vote "backlight".
ps. Is it known if PSP will have a backlight or frontlight yet?
Yeah, the problem with the old backlit portables(Game Gear, Lynx) isn't that they're backlit, it's that the screens themselves are blurry bitches.
frontlit IIRC.Originally posted by sggg
Backlight definitely looks better... but the battery issue is a legit drawback.
However, it's been a while since a new backlit unit came out. You cannot compare SP to GameGear. With more modern screen/battery technology the battery issue might not be so bad.... so I'll vote "backlight".
ps. Is it known if PSP will have a backlight or frontlight yet?
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