Photosensitivity warning Best watched in 1080p 60fps to see interlacing and scanlines.
The mythical Extron Interface Trick has been touted as an accessible hardware solution to downscale modern consoles to 240p. But be warned, it's HARDLY as accessible as I thought…
‘Fake 240p/pseudo 240p’ requires 2 devices: an Extron VSC unit and an Extron RGB interface with DDSP (Digital Data Sync Processing). The VSC unit will downscale 1080i, 720p and 480p to 480i. The interlaced 15KHz RGB video will output to the Extron RGB Interface, where a design-quirk causes the interlacing fields to draw progressively when DDSP is off. Then the VSC’s flicker filter can be increased to stabilise the image for the aforementioned pseudo 240p.
The VSC 500 featured in this video is a flexible standalone 480i downscaler. It so far has unrivalled picture controls to complement the Auto Set feature which centres and re-sizes the video to fit the screen almost perfectly every time. Although it gets my recommendation, it’s not all roses as featured in this episode.
So do I recommend the Extron Interface 240p trick? Short answer: NO. At the very least, it's a peculiar spectacle in the rare scenarios where it does work. I don’t consider myself fortunate to have experienced it first hand or anything so don’t feel you’re missing out if this has failed to work for you. This method was in fact, the first time I downscaled anything to 240p back in 2018. The stars just happened to align when it worked on the Sony BVM 20F1, and downscaling with anything else was all up from here.
Links and credits
@RetroRGB
Thanks Bob for the clarification on this funky method! Supporter Q&A 275
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@mylifeingaming
GBS-C downscaling episode featuring Bob’s footage and lag analysis on the Extron Emotia
• HD Games Downscaled to...
@Ex_Savior
Video featuring the Extron Super Emotia. Also an awesome channel!
• Downscaling Series Epi...
@energyzer_bunny1913
Successfully using the Extron 240p Trick on a consumer Sony Trinitron.
• Extron 580xi: Pseudi 2...
@TheRetroChannel
Tang Nano Time Sleuth Tutorial
• Monitor input lag test...
Fudoh’s Hazard City Scanlines Demystified blog
scanlines.hazard-city.de
Video Game Perfection (VGP) Article on the Extron Interface Trick
videogameperfection.com/2019/...
#crt #240p #retrogaming
00:00 - Intro
04:32 - Setup, lag and scaling tests
08:05 - How it works
11:13 - How it DOESN’T work
13:49 - Final thoughts
3 июл 2024