Would a Wii U gamepad work? Just curious.
Maybe?
The other platforms mentioned have learning capability, are programmable with downloaded ir codes, and have customisable user interface.
As far as I know Wii U is preset?
Hey everyone! So I’ve recently narrowed the cause of some of my electrical interference I’ve been seeing on my different consoles going to my CRT and it seems to be the HDMI splitter I use to send the signal from my OSSC through to my TV and Monitor. I was wondering if just getting another hdmi splitter would help and wondered if you all had any recommendations
Just remove the HDMI splitter from the equation as a test, to see if the interference is there without it. If you can unplug the splitter so there’s no power going to it, and run the HDMI cable direct to the OSSC, then you will know if the splitter is your problem.
Yup I’ve already isolated that that’s the problem. Just looking for the best replacement now
There’s some really great info on this subject over at Shmups.
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63585
He recommends this one as a good switch:
And this one as a good splitter:
2 Likes
This is damn good info. I have tried several times to find info on an HDMI hub/switch that doesn’t fuck with/up anything passing through it since my TV has run out of inputs and have just giving up each time making no progress. Too many boxes with not enough info. I really wonder what is so hard about a switch that just passes though a signal of a selected input without doing anything at all to it.
I’m using a slightly older BlackWeb model (Just saw it was replaced), so I’m wondering if you’re using one of those?
forgot to reply in the post!
Interesting to read about Toshiba in your post. It seems Hisense now owns their electronics department, so has that impacted the models being sold domestically?
What you said about components also rings true to me. The HDTV I’m using is a model from 2006 and it’s still going strong over 12 years later. It feels like Sony went all out with the model, packing as much as possible in a small form factor. It’s very much from its era - it’s a 20" Sony Bravia that went for around 500 GBP on release, and while there ultimately wasn’t a market for a high-end small screen set the sheer quality of the thing means I still use it today.
It’s aged pretty well for what it is, still offering perfect IPS viewing angles, a high contrast ratio (1200:1), loads of ports (SCART, S-Video, RF, composite, component, VGA, HDMI), and the same 8ms of lag regardless of input signal. And the wide row of in-built speakers beneath the screen are excellent.
It’s not going to set the world on fire compared with a good CRT but I’m fairly happy with the image output via the S-Video and RGB Scart ports given what it is.
1 Like
No not really. We can buy Hisense TVs here but they are extremely cheap models. The Toshiba branded TVs are expensive but also high end featuring processing that the Hisense TVs don’t have.
That monitor you have produces a very nice image for an early screen. The Toshiba we have in the small room downstairs looks really nice too. that’s about the same age as your screen. The TV I have now does look better but still, that doesn’t mean the old one looks terrible.
It’s good to hear the modern one is better - with today’s higher resolutions it’s probably a lot harder to get a good low-res image outputted there!
Can you still get high end smaller TV sets in Japan with a good range of classic video inputs? Or are you forced to get a monitor now?
The next official firmware for the OSSC isn’t out yet but there’s a test build you can try here.
- Fixed profile load not reading data from last mode presets
- Video and audio TX parameters tweaked, YCbCr444 TX mode added
- Enabled 35MHz video LPF for 720p & 1080i in auto mode
- Scanline updates and fixes
** Overlay pattern customization feature
** Fixed non-alternating mode with line4x interlace sources
** Added half-interval option for pre-linedoubled sources- Sampling phase made mode-specific
- Auto YPbPr CSC option added
Xyga over on Shmups has taken some great shots of the new horizontal+vertical scanline feature on his LCD monitor and it looks great I think:
More shots in his post over on shmups linked above.
2 Likes
This is really exciting, I’m looking forward to the variable scan-line strength and experimenting with the scan-line grid.
Does a firmware update wipe my profiles?, I’ve tinkered with mine since I set them up with the web app and I’ll need to document my changes before updating if I have to reinstall them.
2 Likes
That looks… amazing!
1 Like
Those would be awesome for GBA games!
1 Like
Very true!
I actually think this is similar to some Trinitrons in general though. It’s perfect for any game in my humble opinion.
1 Like
Agreed. It looks really nice.
It looks like a cleaner version of @Tchiko’s shots of a trinitron on the screenshot thread (which are great btw!)
By cleaner I mean no visible phosphor array, or colour bleed, the absence of which is a matter of taste I guess.
2 Likes
Exactly what I thought of!
It’s features like this which make very tempting to invest in an ossc, to use in conjunction with a pc crt monitor.
The only thing I’m not completely convinced of is the conversion of interlaced content.