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Getting HDMI into an old telly...
Mr ChriZ:
I was recently kindly donated a B&O Beovision 5 television.
It's a hefty beast but does deliver surprisingly good picture and considering it's not HD, and the audios pretty good too.
It's definitely a talking point when anyone visits - sitting on a motorized stand taking up way to much of my sitting room.
However the TV only has SCART input which is fine for the DVD player that came with it, but not so good for getting a laptop hooked up with Media Center.
Last week i purchased one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/electronics/dp/B007WRPJX2
Which looked like it was going to be just the ticket...
However in reality the picture quality that comes out of it is not good. After much fiddling I got the Theater View up on screen and that looked fine - plenty of detail.
However when watching movies it's a bit grainy but worse there's big 'tearing' issues every-time the scene changes to quickly.
I'm sure there's still people out there still running projectors with composite inputs and the likes...
Any recommendations on the best way to drive them with a modern computer?
I also have one of these little media boxes you can plug hard drives in and they are ok and happily output to the TV on composites, but the processors in them never quite seem up to playing higher res files and don't feel so nice to use as MC.
[Edit]
Maybe I should try one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-Universal-Composite-Converter-Standard/dp/B0080KN18K/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Seems to have more reviews and no mentions of the issues I've found in the reviews...
6233638:
Unfortunately, you might be in for some trouble with it using SCART.
Old video cards used to have analog outputs which supported composite, s-video, and occasionally component output, but never RGB SCART.
It's important that you get an RGB output, because s-video, composite, and SD component video look terrible.
You may have to use an intermediate HDMI to VGA, then VGA to RGB SCART adapter. (I can recommend the HDfury for HDMI to VGA)
EDIT: I see that J.S. Tech, who I have used for their high quality converters in the past, are selling that same box.
That suggests to me that it should be capable of doing the job - your screen tearing may be caused by incorrect video timings (check your refresh rates) or player settings.
Mr ChriZ:
Thanks. My machine only offered me two refresh rates 60hz and 59hz.
I've played around with a few settings in MC... but so far no major differences. I'll keep playing.
jmone:
FYI - SCART can be used to carry Composite, Component, S_Video or RGB + Audio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART - and many times you get to select what format to use in the devices config screen.
Do you have an AV Receiver that takes HDMI and allows downconvert to Analog?
Mr ChriZ:
At present I don't have any AV Receivers. Is this a common feature they have?
Thanks
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