Help: SNES on Sony Bravia EX LCD HDTV - any hope?

[Eternal Champion]

My cousin just bought a SNES (non-yellowed!) and has a Sony Bravia KDL-40EX400 LCD. She played a SNES successfully on her friend's Samsung LCD, so figured there would be no problem.
The TV has composite, YPbPr, VGA, and HDMI inputs.
She connected the SNES composite and audio - no picture, but sound. Both back and side jacks.

I figure these are the cheapest options, short of getting a CRT (which she doesn't want to do):

1) SNES SCART cable-->SCART->HDMI scaler, such as http://www.amazon.com/Panlong-PL-SH2...=scart+to+hdmi
2) SNES s-video cable-->s-video->HDMI scaler (a bit cheaper than above, but what are good s-video cables?)

Is there anything we're missing? Some setting in the TV, for example? Or, if there's no video, it obviously doesn't support 240p?

[Greg2600]

You can try Game Mode, but I too have a Bravia LCD and 240p systems over component cause massive issues. I can get them to work over composite though. SNES would not work for me going from SCART to converter to component.

[Eternal Champion]

You can try Game Mode, but I too have a Bravia LCD and 240p systems over component cause massive issues. I can get them to work over composite though. SNES would not work for me going from SCART to converter to component.

Well, she's using the normal SNES composite cable, and no video at all.

I would say the best bet is SCART-->HDMI, though that's more money and risk that it might not work. Have you tried SCART to HDMI scaler, by chance?

[Greg2600]

Well, she's using the normal SNES composite cable, and no video at all.

I would say the best bet is SCART-->HDMI, though that's more money and risk that it might not work. Have you tried SCART to HDMI scaler, by chance?

Yes, I have that now, but I'm using an expensive "professional" model by DVDO. The $60 HDMI scaler should work. What I didn't like about them was that they all stretch the 4:3 games to 16:9, and if your TV cannot adjust back to 4:3 you're stuck with that. My stupid Sony couldn't do it. Anyway, that would work. The scaler goes to 720P, and that's what HDMI can accept (1080i/720p/1080p). Component video is supposed to be 480i at the least. Newer sets' upscalers don't have programming for 240p over component, and now perhaps they don't have it for composite either!

[Eternal Champion]

Yes, I have that now, but I'm using an expensive "professional" model by DVDO. The $60 HDMI scaler should work. What I didn't like about them was that they all stretch the 4:3 games to 16:9, and if your TV cannot adjust back to 4:3 you're stuck with that. My stupid Sony couldn't do it. Anyway, that would work. The scaler goes to 720P, and that's what HDMI can accept (1080i/720p/1080p). Component video is supposed to be 480i at the least. Newer sets' upscalers don't have programming for 240p over component, and now perhaps they don't have it for composite either!

Ah, that's a good point about aspect ratio. I have a YPbPr-->VGA scaler that I used to use with my Genesis. It kind of crappily could make it 4:3.
Just out of curiosity, what is the DVDO unit that you use?

[Greg2600]

I have a VP50. Got it used from ebay a few years ago, paid ~ $150. This website is bar none the best there is at reviewing upscalers. http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/


My TV ironically is a KDL-32EX400, same model just smaller. So it should utilize the same hardware. As I said, for anything no-HD it has issues, and when it works, the upscaling looks pretty bad. My primary reason for buying the TV was that it had a VGA port, 2 component hookups, and 4 HDMI's.