Scart to HDMI adapter

[Anonymous No.2230003]

Wondering what /vr/ thinks of these things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS55pmLIEjA

This youtube video i found recommends the fuck out of this particular one but doesn't talk about lag/stretching or anything. Anyone got some firsthand experience?

I'm thinking of getting one because there's no scart tvs in my country but i've got a small pvm with RGBS and I know how fantastic RGB looks.

[Anonymous No.2230007]

>>2230003
Should mention I want one for my Superfam, Jap MD and a converted MVS

[Anonymous No.2230008]

>>2230003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3fOde0EBnY
Just remember that you get what you pay for.

[Anonymous No.2230012]

They're garbage but cheap.

Lots of lag, poor quality image, no scanlines and you can;t add them either, poor support, etc

[Anonymous No.2230015]

>>2230012
What's "lots of lag?"
What's "poor quality",
"can't add them?"

[Anonymous No.2230021]

>>2230015
Google.

[Anonymous No.2230420]

For 150, you can get something much better in a used dvdo unit. Break the scart out to BNC RGB and sync.
No scan lines, but you can get them through another adapter and an slg.
Not xrgb quality but significantly less money for good quality.

[Anonymous No.2230432]

>>2230007
The MVS has a funcy sync like 57 Hz something. That could cause trouble with some scalers so be sure to check that out first.
Can also be incompatible with your display depending on if your scaler converts to 60Hz or not. I'd prefer the latter (not converting) and having a screen that supports odd sync rates because you get disgustingly jittery movement when you try to change it around.
Sometimes this is even noticeable on nominally "60Hz" consoles when you run them through a scaler that converts the sync rate, because they are slightly off causing jitter every few seconds.

The XRGB Mini can toggle between converting and outputting exactly the same rate as on the input btw, so you can get the best of both (non-jittery picture vs. compatibility with more displays).

[Anonymous No.2230437]

pros:
works out of the box
has audio out, jack and coax spdif
can output to various resolutions : 800x600, 1024x768, 720p, 1080p ; useful to output to your display native res and avoid panel scaling
works with 50hz sources
input lag is between 1 and 2 frames, tested with 240p suite

cons:
240p content gets treated as 480i so some minor artefacts happens
no scanlines
content gets stretched when using 720p/1080p
no option

honestly, for the price it's great. the thing works also it's great for HDMI capturing.

And if you're really on getting scanline experience, just get a cheap CRT tv, you'll get better looking scanlines, 0 input lag (yes, even micomsoft devices have input lag).

[Anonymous No.2230551]

>>2230003
Supposedly the SCART to Component adapters have less lag, just gotta mod them to have extra RCA connectors for audio.

[Anonymous No.2230693]

>>2230003
It works wonders to be honest
For $40 all my Sega Saturn, Genesis, and Snes games come out crystal clear on my LCD
Ive noticed no lag or any that affects gameplay and supports true RGB video for any region
I reccomend it
This is mine

[Anonymous No.2230721]

>>2230437
>even micomsoft devices have input lag
I don't dispute the Framemeister, but isn't the XRGB-3 supposed to be able to do frame-doubling on a per-scanline basis a.k.a. no input lag? (240p input -> 480p VGA output)

[Anonymous No.2230723]

>>2230721
>frame-doubling
line-doubling
I need to sleep.

[Anonymous No.2230742]

Not retro, but I got a component to HDMI box for Wii/Gamecube games and it's decidedly "okay". I have no other way to use them currently, and this is the only way I could find to run them into my monitor. I can't see these working much better, the lower quality the input signal the worse it's going to look converted to HD.

[Anonymous No.2230751]

>>2230693
Could we have some pics of your display?

[Anonymous No.2230786]

>>2230551
Of course they do because they're just transcoders not upscalers. You still need a display that does 240p.

[Anonymous No.2230826]

>>2230751
Its just a 32 inch
Not huge but not tiny

[Anonymous No.2230836]

>>2230721
>>2230437
XRGB 3 has about 2ms lag.

> you'll get better looking scanlines, 0 input lag (yes, even micomsoft devices have input lag).
All false. With a modern TV you have less than a frame of lag with the whole chain of the xrgb, all the external trancoding, sync cleaning, slg, etc, and the TV. So there's absolutely no lag.
The scanlines look amazing as does the picture. You get the added bonus of being able to turn them off an on or the level of them which for some games is nice.

[Anonymous No.2230872]

>>2230836
at the price of a XRGB3, you can get a fucking PVM
for 1/100th of a XRGB3 you can get a trinitron tv

[Anonymous No.2230896]

>>2230872
Then you have to deal with a CRT and all that comes with that.

[Anonymous No.2230907]

>>2230896
such as native image rendering, perfect 240p/480i support and 0 (zero) input lag ?

[Anonymous No.2230913]

>>2230907
The picture looks a lot better with the xrgb and a good tv. And as said there's zero lag.

[Anonymous No.2231003]

>>2230826
Urr, I meant with it on. Can we see the converter in action?

[Anonymous No.2231039]

>>2230913
lmao, go filter your emulation. Upscaled shit will never look better

[Anonymous No.2231042]

>>2231039
It's not emulation. Go take your ignorance back to the CRT life support thread.

[Anonymous No.2231047]

>>2231042
Life support? Lel, if you're playing on a widescreen you might as well just be emulating. I have a CRT and a flatscreen and the CRT will always look better.

[Anonymous No.2231049]

>>2231003
This is from my phone camera so the tv appears glowy in these pics, but trust me when it looks ten time better in real life
Used Sonic 2 but if you want to see another game or system on it just ask

[Anonymous No.2231052]

>>2231047
>LeL
Explains that post.

[Anonymous No.2231058]

>>2231049
shit son that actually does look pretty good. These are like $50, right?

[Anonymous No.2231079]

>>2231058
I got it around $40 free shipping from ebay
but it did take some time to arrive since it was from hong kong
32x games look gorgeous too
(this pic is just one i used for the sega classic contest that I won)

[Anonymous No.2231081]

>>2231058
>>2231049
that looks like shit. too high contrast and the greens look muddy. are shillers all blind?

[Anonymous No.2231086]

>>2231058
yeah 50/60 ish
you can't really beat that price/functionality ratio

[Anonymous No.2231089]

>>2231081
>xrgb buyers remorse

[Anonymous No.2231091]

>>2231081
I told you my phone camera sucks with lcd colors showing properly and it appears to glow

This is not what it looks like irl
the blue border screws with the pic making the colors seem off taking a pic

[Anonymous No.2231101]

>>2231081
do you really think there's shilling for something 100s of ebayers sell for 50 quids ?

[Anonymous No.2231106]

>>2231079
>>2231049
Does your TV have really bad overscan control or is bad scaling?

[Anonymous No.2231128]

>>2231106
Uh, you mean the blue?
I dont know it only is with sonic I thought it was part of the game
all the other games fit fine on the screen

[Anonymous No.2231131]

>>2231128
Ya that's probably from the scaler being very poor. It's not knowing what to do with the resolutions so it's either adding or subtracting overscan. You pictures there aren't showing the full screen.

[Anonymous No.2231176]

>>2231131
still looks fine
again its the best bang for your buck

[Anonymous No.2231402]

>>2230003
>Anyone got some firsthand experience?
Yes. They output varying degrees of shit depending on the console.
As has been pointed out in the last >9000 threads asking the exact same thing.

[Anonymous No.2231426]

>>2231402
I cant tell if serious or not but it gave me a chuckle at your anger

[Anonymous No.2231487]

I have this thing, its decent if you're trying to get RGB into an HDMI only capture card but for anything else, I'd never use this. The output is good because its still obviously RGB but it's deinterlaced since it interprets 480i instead of 240p and the smoothness of the video suffers as a result. With the lag and stutter combined I really don't recommend it for direct game play, might as well just get an LCD that will support component and get one of those RGB->YUV things.

This thing actually might be better for things that are legitimately video sources like a laserdisc player or a VCR but not a game system. Literally the best thing about this product was that it was on Amazon with prime shipping and that has nothing to do with the product itself.

I do have one TOP TIP for this thing: For a streaming setup where you have a PVM with RGB passthrough, it's very useful if you don't have a capture card with RGB inputs.

[Anonymous No.2233118]

What does this do that my computer's GPU won't?

[Anonymous No.2233132]

>>2233118
Here we go.

[Anonymous No.2233139]

>>2233118
Have accurate gameplay.