This project looks awesome and already has me looking around my city for a nice crt tv lol. Just curious what this device might cost once all said and done?
This hasn't been decided yet, as it's still in early prototyping phase
Ok how about this scenario. I use gbs control to pump native rgbs into a crt with component in. I believe the max output is 480p. There's no upscaling or anything like that involved, the only thing it does is convert to component so if it's a 240p signal that's what the tv is going to get. Would that work or is the conversion enough to throw off the timing?
The latency added by the GBS-C, while being minimal, would most definitely throw the timing off and make the gun unusable.
To explain shortly, the gun needs a timing precision or at least 0.1 microsecond to work well, which pretty much no scaler do.
But there is also another issue, if you double the resolution of the video signal while the gun is still sync with 15kHz, it just won't understand what's happening
If you want a higher res signal, the best is to simply have everything working at that res.
For instance in the last demo videos, I'm using the system on a pc crt at 1025x768@75Hz.