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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1056 |
HDMI upscaling on a budget
I love my CRT to death, but sometimes a more compact option is needed. Does anyone know of an HDMI upscaler that doesn't cost $400, outputs 50 Hz without artifacts or dropping frames, and shows aspect correct 4:3 with black bars on a 16:9 display? The $30 converters on eBay are crap. Specifically, has anyone tried these KanexPro converters? http://www.kanexpro.com/converters/composite/ |
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Clarence
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 119 |
I'd be also interested in this. Several years ago we tried at least 5-6 of the budget video/svideo to hdmi converters and all had some kind of frame tearing problem. Maybe the situation is better now.
What is also worth to consider, some of the converter boxes added considerable amount of lag (some added close to a second). For example to play games 'realtime' it is an important aspect as well. |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1056 |
Yeah, good point, latency also has to be taken into account. Some latency can be fine if your main purpose is watching demos and composing or pixeling, but for gaming you don't want more than a frame or two. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11117 |
you dont even want one frame, unless all you are playing is adventure games :) |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1056 |
I have my CRT for when it really counts, so I can live with < 50 ms. Less is better, and if the OSSC had S-video input I'd buy it in a heartbeat. |
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Tao
Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 115 |
My ideal would be some way to feed things into an eDP; that way I finally could build myself SX-128 out of my 128D :) |
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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 512 |
so the only solution would be rob a bank and get ze framemeister? |
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CreaMD
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3035 |
Framemeister is the thing that does it? 50HZ and all that? No flaws? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
yep |
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421 |
I'd see if somebody who's into designing/manufacturing hardware could do a simpler solution. There's a lot of money in a cheap Framemeister clone.
The fact that there doesn't exist one yet, makes me think that it's actually not feasible... |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11117 |
thing is that it wont get much "simpler". and if you cant just take an off the shelf IC (which those $30 solutions do that work like crap) it wont get cheaper either :) |
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