CrazyChris Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Within the last couple of months someone posted, within a thread, about their favorite video converter box. I went to the companies website, and the boxes, were in clear cases. The company was homebrew-ish, but had high quality products. The firmware for the boxes may have been open source. Anyone know where this post is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 13 minutes ago, CrazyChris said: Within the last couple of months someone posted, within a thread, about their favorite video converter box. I went to the companies website, and the boxes, were in clear cases. The company was homebrew-ish, but had high quality products. The firmware for the boxes may have been open source. Anyone know where this post is? The only open-source project that I’m aware of is OSSC - Open Source Scan Converter. I know people who have one and like it. I have and quite like the RetroTink 2X-Pro. There are also any number of cheapie HDMI scalers available inexpensively from Amazon or eBay. Some of these are better than others but most of the cheaper ones add a bit of lag and might have some issues in certain retro-systems depending on graphics modes. Old systems didn’t necessarily stick to precisely-defined NTSC or PAL standards because old analog-tuner TVs were much more forgiving of sloppy signals. Even with the “better” converters such as the RetroTink, some Atari 2600 games can make it choke because they use non-standard numbers of scanlines or other weird things in their display kernels that confuses a modern HDMI display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellis Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I think you are looking for the RetroTINK. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awch Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I have a RetroTINK 2X-Pro and it's excellent. Very happy with it. If you do get one make sure to update to its latest firmware. It is regularly updated and improved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 How would the RetroTINK 2X-Pro handle the output of a VBXE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 2 hours ago, Mr Robot said: How would the RetroTINK 2X-Pro handle the output of a VBXE? The 2X-Pro can accept composite, S-video or component. It doesn't accept RGB directly. However, the RetroTink RGB2Comp takes a SCART connection and outputs component for North American displays, or to input into the 2X-Pro. EDIT: Better yet, if you have a SCART output cable, then use the 2X-SCART instead to go straight to HDMI in one box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyChris Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 On 6/26/2020 at 10:36 AM, mellis said: I think you are looking for the RetroTINK. This was it. Thank you! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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