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Originally Posted by KanedA
sure it matters how good your tuner is... but not that much (if you're not some gadget freak), sims - so you had sh1tty tuner/software or couldn't configure it right :>
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You need to have some manners.
First of all, my capture solution costed me 300 hundred dollars. The most expensive standalone capture card you can find according to newegg is
this, which is merely 149 dollars. I highly doubt you have one of this, and seeing as how you use Dscaler I'm assuming you have a card with the Conexant chipset.
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Almost any card (and that means A LOT) based of former Brooktree (now Conexant) chips including bt848/878/879 will work for video only. Why those ? These chips are easy to program (there has been A LOT of software based on those) and are very chea
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This is a direct quote from the Dscaler faq pages.
Software wise, I'm using ATI's very own Multimedia Center. Now I must admit, this software can be a resource hog, especially when using the PVR feature, but so far from my experience of playing around with all the capture sources, the PS2 source is the worst. I have capture TV signals, DVD outputs, handycam inputs, and by far PS2 gives the least desirable quality. Why?
Like I said, the source resolution on the PS2 is not that high to begin with. For comparison, the max resolution of over-the-air analog TV signal is 720x480. Which you can see from my pics below. DVD come in at 720x480 and below. Resident evil 4 for PS2, a game which many consider good as far as graphic is concern, is definately running at something below 640x480. I wouldn't complain had it looked good (being ran at about the same resolution as DVD afterall), but at the start of the game where everything seem to almost be made up of brown (the forest village), it's pretty damn hard telling what is what from all the alias, smear effect, shimmering going on.
In conclusion, you might want to do a little research before making a claim which you can't support. Afterall picture quality is all subjective to the observer. Maybe you might be used to low resolution stuff considering you use your capture card for playing Playstation2, but I've seen all the capture sources and only base my conclusion from their results.
Last edited by sims; August 5th, 2006 at 17:08.