bonzo.bits wrote:
Anyone using OSSC > HDMI to VGA converter > PC CRT monitor?
I've been kinda forced to use one with mine due to the fact that my display has dimmed out and the ossc can serve as a bridge as it can adjust it's brightness/contrast levels to compensate. Been hating that and I've been meaning to get it replaced at some point so I don't have to keep dealing with it, but I'm pretty sure with the option to switch vesa settings with the DC's way out outputting 480p, you should be able to get a proper 4:3 ratio without seeing your picture squeezed up any. This always used to set me off whenever I see Ivy looking like a beanpole.
One nice benefit I still love is if you have a short vga cable, you can use that to ossc to cut down impedence and use an hdmi cable all the way up to the back where it meets the adapter straight into the input. This will give you the purest image you can get short of a DCHDMI mod, even though some smartalecs will disagree and say "well why don't you just get better cables?? (hyuk!)" No actually cable length does add more signal desegregation the longer the cords get, even when you have filter ends on them. Digital is just a way of managing the quality without any further loss to deal with, but a low quality adapter will still negate it if you have one.
I think the ossc does clock cycle well with most games output to vga, but you need to make sure you know what games have the 720-horz res and keep the vesa setting adjusted or you'll have unnatural shimmering of pixels and unevenness to deal with. 240p isn't anything to worry about and some of the snk titles are distinctively 640x480 no hassle.
Edit: One thing I will advise though is if you're doing component for any of your consoles, I'd definately run 920p with light scanlines only because this thing about clock cycles does some of that annoyance I mentioned in the previous paragraph, but not in the same way of vesa 640 vs 720, but it's still there. Keep generic 4:3, upsamplex2 and you should be fine. This also matters to the DC in relation to those component cables made for that system.