tested 2 games, worked when I hooked it up thru my receiver (that outputs to the TV via HDMI) and also when I hooked it up directly to the TV.
Its a 46inch Sony, about 3 years old
KDL 46v2500
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Bravia-KD.../dp/B000HGSL4E
tested 2 games, worked when I hooked it up thru my receiver (that outputs to the TV via HDMI) and also when I hooked it up directly to the TV.
Its a 46inch Sony, about 3 years old
KDL 46v2500
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Bravia-KD.../dp/B000HGSL4E
Ahh good ole' Sony. Can't go wrong with that. Mines just a cheap Polaroid I got for $598 on Black Friday a couple of years ago. I guess I should expect it to not have that feature.
I tend to go for the best connection I can case in point my ps3 is HDMI
totally missed that part, my bad =/
I have one of those 3 in 1 S-Video Cables (SNES/GC - Dreamcast - Xbox 1) and it works great, the quality of the picture of great on svideo on my snes, no issues there.
So Lately I've been thinking of doing the rgb/scart to component thing for my consoles.
I went ahead and first bought this cable:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Then I bought this thing so I could get the Audio out of the cable
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT
The last step was to buy the rgb/scart to component coverter which I haven't yet.
So in the meantime I wanted to test if the rgb/scart cable worked so I used it with that adapter, which you can see from the pics it has S-Video out.
So I did, the problem is the colors and quality looked poor, like a cheap RF signal.
So I was wondering, could it be because the rgb/scart cable I bought was a cheap piece of crap?
I would of thought that the Picture Quality would of been the same as with my regular S-Video 3in1 cable.
I am no afraid to buy the component adapater and wasting like $50 if the quality will look bad.
Here is Pic, first one is with 3in1 S-Video
Second with the rgb/scart to svideo
Sorry, I missed that part. So that's actually simpler than I thought. I'm not sure what your options are, outside of finding a television that still has the classic SCART connector, or finding some upscaling hardware (a bit expensive).
I just need to buy one of these
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT
Have you looked into lag? That's always the killer with these devices I find.
RGB -> YUV Transcoding is not going to introduce lag from what I've been told, especially not in the millisecond range (unless perhaps its a particularly terrible transcoder) . Scaling or A/D conversions are what usually introduce lag w/ converters.
edit: Fudoh update his webpage recently, it has a lot of info on converters, upscalers, etc, including some new ones on the cheap end of the spectrum you can find on ebay - http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/
edit: I would reccomend getting cables from pcenginesales on ebay - she normally sells snes rgb cables for euro snes's, but will switch out the necessary components to make it compatible with ntsc snes's if you need it. I got one of a batch of higher quality cables they had just got in, and it finally got rid of the diagonal jailbars I would get on my snes.
Last edited by Zapf; 07-22-2010 at 12:38 PM.
Yeah that's odd about the S-Video output on that pass through. There is some sort of incompatibility somewhere, obviously. I wouldn't hesitate to think that the picture would look damn near perfect with the right converter however. That's the same converter I have for the X'Eye and it looks great. I still need to take some pictures of composite vs. rgb/component on the X'Eye once I get it all hooked back up in the game room.
Maybe the cable you got was not ntsc compatible? I don't know much about the SNES running RGB, I just know that they have scart cables for it.
Vectorman linked this on IRC and I think it might be of interest to people in this thread:
http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/
A really good writeup by someone with an insane amount of time on their hands.