Well, some of you will be aware that i (like many others) have been searching for the holy grail of bringing 16 bit consoles display capabilities to align with modern HD LCD or LED tv's. This search took me to maplin and beyond without success.
I was fed up of using scart/composite for my tv as the picture quality was poor (especially for the megadrive). The amiga was partially sorted through the use of the gbs 8220. The super nintendo had a reasonable picture via standard scart.
However, a few months ago i took a chance and purchased the Kanaan HD upscaler and this has been one of my most successful purchases. For the cost of errrrm a significantly unfortunate round at the pub (say 10 or 12 people) you have a decent piece of equipment. I got mine from amazon. I use it in conjunction with a 3 way scart selector box, both MD and SNES have RGB scart leads and my amiga 1200 is on a composite scart lead.
The picture quality for all is good to very good (especially megadrive and amiga) I think it rivals my gbs 8220 for picture quality in terms of the 1200. No doubt not up to the standard of the indi II which I'm still waiting on the software release to bring compatability with my tv - well that's another story.
I'll put the pics below and let them do the talking.
(TV in use: Samsung 8 series 40" LED tv)
Advantages:
Reasonable price
Versatility
Significant improvement in picture quality
Disadvantages
Needs to be connected to power source
Picture quality still not optimised
Conclusion: Cancel the meal out and switch to kfc for the evening. Use the money saved to purchase one of these.
I was fed up of using scart/composite for my tv as the picture quality was poor (especially for the megadrive). The amiga was partially sorted through the use of the gbs 8220. The super nintendo had a reasonable picture via standard scart.
However, a few months ago i took a chance and purchased the Kanaan HD upscaler and this has been one of my most successful purchases. For the cost of errrrm a significantly unfortunate round at the pub (say 10 or 12 people) you have a decent piece of equipment. I got mine from amazon. I use it in conjunction with a 3 way scart selector box, both MD and SNES have RGB scart leads and my amiga 1200 is on a composite scart lead.
The picture quality for all is good to very good (especially megadrive and amiga) I think it rivals my gbs 8220 for picture quality in terms of the 1200. No doubt not up to the standard of the indi II which I'm still waiting on the software release to bring compatability with my tv - well that's another story.
I'll put the pics below and let them do the talking.
(TV in use: Samsung 8 series 40" LED tv)
Advantages:
Reasonable price
Versatility
Significant improvement in picture quality
Disadvantages
Needs to be connected to power source
Picture quality still not optimised
Conclusion: Cancel the meal out and switch to kfc for the evening. Use the money saved to purchase one of these.
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