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Newbie TV walkthrough, please!
ceburto2:
--- Quote from: rCadeGaming on August 12, 2012, 10:41:36 pm ---
The only differences are "Adjustable low level gamma" and "Fully adjustable picture shift with control of H-delay, H-width and V-width." All of these adjustments can be made in Powerstrip if you get a more flexible gfx card.
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I wish I knew how to use my scroll wheel ::) Sorry, I didn't see the TC1600 lower on the page. Thank you.
-ceburto2
rCadeGaming:
--- Quote from: TalkingOctopus on August 13, 2012, 02:15:24 am ---This forum thread claims the TV downconverts everything to 480i.
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That is just bizarre, but again your links do seem to confirm it. Luckily we don't care what it does with 1080i, just what it does with something around 240p.
If it can't actually display anything over 480i, that means it's a strictly 15kHz set; so there's a good chance that it will display ~240p correctly instead of upscaling it.
Go ahead with the SNES test, that will clear everything up. If you have it, the large text on the Super Mario World title screen is a good reference. Set your camera to a high resolution and take some pictures as close as you can without losing focus.
ceburto2:
I think that I'm going to go with the Audio Authority 9A60 VGA converter. Product details here, http://www.audioauthority.com/product_details/9A60 I found it for around $40 cheaper than advertised here. Looks like a good solution.
-ceburto2
harveybirdman:
I'm very interested to see how your transcoder works notbillcosby, I am going to need one and I've already wasted a bunch of funds on crap that won't work.
I don't have any AGP or PCI-E slots on my motherboard so I can't upgrade to a card that suporrts the DVI to Component dongle I bought. I finally got my PCI ATI Radeon 7500 card working but the s-video is garbage.
Therefore VGA to Component seems to be the only option. But I'm not sure if I have quite the appetite for $100 plus to spring for the one rCadeGaming suggests...
notbillcosby:
Alright. I've had a few bursts of free time to try to get this working. I have Soft15khz and Powerstrip. I open Soft15khz and click on the four "install" buttons and nothing seems to happen. I've restarted plenty of times... I can't turn my resolution below 800x600, and the refresh rate is fixed at 60hz, in both the system dialog boxes and the Catalyst software. I'm using that Radeon 9250 PCI card. I feel like I've just missed a step somewhere... I can't find a great tutorial on Soft15khz. I have the feeling that I'm supposed to be doing something more with it somehow...
UPDATE: I uninstalled ATI drivers and installed a newer version, and after restarting in "VGA Mode" from the F8 boot menu, I got it to display at 640x480 60hz. Plugging into my TV gives me grabled crap.
UPDATE 2: And however it happened, Now I'm typing this to you while viewing on the Sony at 640x480! It's kinda jittery looking, but I'm guessing if I figure out how to get 320x240 going on here it'll look a lot better.