Has anyone used a VGA converter, scaler to play their older systems on an HDTV?

(Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, etc) With something like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350248825829

If so, what have beenyour results? Is the upgrade in picture quality over standard composite video significant enough to justify buying one of these?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It doesnt actually turn anything HD. N64 game resolutions average between 320x240 or 640x480, but there has been some smaller. Ur TV upscales the signal to begin with. Basically upscaling stretched the image to the maximum resolution. Lets sat for example u have a 720x480 signal. ur HDTV will upscale it to 1080p. From that point on ur game is in 1080p. now the reason it looks bad is because it has been stretched without anyfiltering done. That converter probably has a worse upscaler than ur TV. If u want filtered/proccessed video feeds to make it look clearer u need to buy a reciever with a high quality proccessor to actually strtch the video and fill in extra pixels to make it true 1080p.

It's only going to look real nice if your running the game off an ********* on your computer. Which is illegal.

It's only going to look real nice if your running the game off an ********* on your computer. Which is illegal.

zaku101

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It's only going to look real nice if your running the game off an ********* on your computer. Which is illegal.

JigglyWiggly_

It doesnt actually turn anything HD. N64 game resolutions average between 320x240 or 640x480, but there has been some smaller. Ur TV upscales the signal to begin with. Basically upscaling stretched the image to the maximum resolution. Lets sat for example u have a 720x480 signal. ur HDTV will upscale it to 1080p. From that point on ur game is in 1080p. now the reason it looks bad is because it has been stretched without anyfiltering done. That converter probably has a worse upscaler than ur TV. If u want filtered/proccessed video feeds to make it look clearer u need to buy a reciever with a high quality proccessor to actually strtch the video and fill in extra pixels to make it true 1080p.

painguy1

Thanks for the reply. When you say receiver are talking of an audio receiver with video inputs and the like?

Also, the reason the product was appealing to me is because it has an S-video input, something my HDTV doesn't have. Right now, I'm running my older consoles through an RF modulator. Looks okay, but I would venture to guess it would look much better running through the s-video input on that device.

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It doesnt actually turn anything HD. N64 game resolutions average between 320x240 or 640x480, but there has been some smaller. Ur TV upscales the signal to begin with. Basically upscaling stretched the image to the maximum resolution. Lets sat for example u have a 720x480 signal. ur HDTV will upscale it to 1080p. From that point on ur game is in 1080p. now the reason it looks bad is because it has been stretched without anyfiltering done. That converter probably has a worse upscaler than ur TV. If u want filtered/proccessed video feeds to make it look clearer u need to buy a reciever with a high quality proccessor to actually strtch the video and fill in extra pixels to make it true 1080p.

ipwnzthaish

Thanks for the reply. When you say receiver are talking of an audio receiver with video inputs and the like?

Also, the reason the product was appealing to me is because it has an S-video input, something my HDTV doesn't have. Right now, I'm running my older consoles through an RF modulator. Looks okay, but I would venture to guess it would look much better running through the s-video input on that device.

yes i mean an audio/video receiver. I believe that most recievers have S-videos now a days. The upscaling proccesor vary's though (aswell as the price :P)