Author Topic: The RetroClarity (Component Video Adaptor) re-kickstarter now live!!!!  (Read 1350 times)

turbokon

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A youtuber gave our kickstarter a plug.

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I just sent one of our prototype boxes to the guys over at my life in gaming to get some publicity.  They plan todemo it against the hdretrovision on their August episode. 
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will be interesting to see how theirs performs

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Did you guys fix the name yet.   Retro Clarity still sounds terrible.    It sounds like a VHS remastering device.

Haha, RetroClarity is what we settled on unless you can come up with something for us:)

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^ ha! That's it.
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Hehe:)

Added video link of composite vs component via retroclarity.
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Ok fellows, a few things I would like to address regarding our current retroclarity kickstarter.  I'm very passionate and excited about this project.  First we would like to apologize for the bad comparision screen shots between the composite and component video.  The screen shots doesn't do the retroclarity justice.  We were using the roxio gamecap hd which capture 240p component but in a dark tint.  After adjusting the color in the roxio editing software setting, it makes component video looks washed out.  We are currently playing around with some other capture device.  So far we have tried the elgato game capture hd but it didn't do 240p over component.

Secondly, the retroclarity is not meant to replace up-scalers such as the xrgb fremeister but rather a middle ground solution at a 1/3 of the price of a fremeister.  It's a stand along device that provide easy connectivity, adds zero lag, multi systems support up to three simultaneously with auto switching between systems.  It can also be used in conjunction with the xrgb fremeister.  In fact the YouTube guys over at my life in gaming have one of our prototype boxes in their hands and can confirm it's as clean and sharp as rgb through the fremeister.  If any of you guys are in the Pennsylvania area,  the guys from my life in gaming might talk about or possibly demo our retroclarity in their first-ever panel at Too Many Games convention in Pennsylvania next weekend, June 26th to 28th.

Lastly, saying 100% of hdtv's doesn't support 240p is utterly false.  More HDTV support 240p then you think.  I have four HDTV's, two sony's (42" and 52"), one Samsung (32") and one Phillips (19") all work with 240p component.  I didn't specifically just look for hdtv's that works with 240p when I bought them, I brought them (except for the phillips which I bought last year) way before we even started working on the component encoder that we are using in the retroclarity.   

Again the retroclarity uses our custom designed rgb to component encoder boards thats already been proven out in the fields for the last couple of years.  We're just now putting it in a simply plug and play solution with multi systems support where else the hdretrovision cables are only for one system connectivity.
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How do you get the Framemeister to accept component video? Everything I've read has said that it's the one type of source it can't take.
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How do you get the Framemeister to accept component video? Everything I've read has said that it's the one type of source it can't take.

It wasn't me that tested it with the framemeister, it was the guys at my life in gaming.  I believe it comes with a component input adapter.
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All XRGBS accept component over D-Terminal-thingies.   The framemeister has donglies, and my friend uses his PSP on it
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/444560212348840?view=permalink&id=541038996034294

Case anybody's wondering, turbokon is reacting to a European mocking/ridiculing the idea of RetroClarity on a Facebook group. He seemed to think he spoke for most HDTV sets and that they reject a 240p video signal when using the green Luma/Y jack in YPbPr mode. Nevermind that the product is technically not relevant to Europe since they had the SCART RGB standard. You care about RGB output there, YPbPr is mostly a US standard.
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Thought I'd chime in to point out your RGB to component boards do work with the DVDO iScan Pro also. So something like a LCD TV with component or VGA in, that doesn't normally support 240P, that could be paired with a cheaper iScan Pro to add better 240P support.

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/444560212348840?view=permalink&id=541038996034294

Case anybody's wondering, turbokon is reacting to a European mocking/ridiculing the idea of RetroClarity on a Facebook group. He seemed to think he spoke for most HDTV sets and that they reject a 240p video signal when using the green Luma/Y jack in YPbPr mode. Nevermind that the product is technically not relevant to Europe since they had the SCART RGB standard. You care about RGB output there, YPbPr is mostly a US standard.

Night,  that was just one attack I fended off.  Last weekend was even a harsher one on the 8-bit and 16-bit facebook group.  The admin took it down after a few post.  It started on my post.




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Thought I'd chime in to point out your RGB to component boards do work with the DVDO iScan Pro also. So something like a LCD TV with component or VGA in, that doesn't normally support 240P, that could be paired with a cheaper iScan Pro to add better 240P support.

Thanks professor, I'll check this out it.
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I figured out some more stuff with my framemeister and game capture hd this morning. Here are a few comparison screenshots taken from the Retro Clarity's component board installed in a PCE GT and composite recorded from an IFU.









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