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Offline koshman

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Re: Should I wait for Indivision?
« on: February 20, 2010, 06:54:19 PM »
I discussed this issue with Gulliver a few months ago and decided to take this route. The image quality over SVHS is really quite decent, but one problem I found out is that it is dark. I don't know how to describe it accurately, maybe the contrast is too high, but it is really noticeable. When you have dark scenes in games or demos details are hard to see and some color combinations are really difficult to make out (like brown on dark blue etc.). It is evident even on small things like the WHDload load screen where the normal pattern blurs into solid dark blue. The picture over Composite is much less sharp and the colours bleed, but the brightness is significantly more natural.
Maybe it is possible to tune it somehow, but I haven't been able to so far.
Also the SVHS->VGA box gets quite hot.
Does anybody else have these problems with SVHS?
Otherwise the solution works fine, but this annoys me a lot.
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Re: Should I wait for Indivision?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2010, 07:21:34 PM »
If you start using a graphics card how does it increase your need of Indivision???
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Re: Should I wait for Indivision?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2010, 05:01:37 PM »
Btw, when is the next batch of Indivision AGA supposed to be ready?
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Re: Should I wait for Indivision?
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2010, 11:25:57 AM »
Btw, I recently found out that my earlier described problems with the SVIDEO->VGA solution (dark image, so so quality) are totally gone when I use it on A1200. Before I was using it on my A4000 and the IQ was acceptable, but nothing to write home about, plus it was unusually dark - no brightness/contrast/gamma correction settings I tried gave me a totally natural looking picture. So in the end I bought an Indivision for the A4000, which, of course, works fine.
I recently obtained an A1200 and tried the Amigamaniac's converter + VGA box combo on it and it works great! The picture is totally stable, the colours are correct and overall the quality of the output is very very close to the Indivision. I don't know if there's something wrong with my A4000, this is just heads up for anybody who might be thinking about trying the cheaper option on their A4000 that there possibly might be some issues. On A1200 I don't see a reason to buy Indivision if you're only after games/demos, the biggest (only) advantage is HighGFX.
Btw, HighGFX 1024x768 through Indivision on my A4000 is quite blurry. Is it normal? Considering the age of the host HW I guess it is I just wanna be sure. Thanks.
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