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Thor AV Control Centre AVC-100/28570T Review
Easily the most aesthetically pleasing switch in our round-up so far, the Thor AV Control Centre is a completely superb bit of AV kit. Housed in an attractive metal chassis, measuring 47.5cm long,...
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Keene 1×5 SCART Distribution Amp Review
More complex gaming setups often have multiple displays, video processors or capture devices. This means that often there’s a need to split one signal between several devices. Ideally of course, we...
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Playstation RGB sync-on-luma cable review
If you’ve read our gamers guide to SCART you will know that RGB cables typically use either composite video for sync or pure/raw sync. Usually composite video for sync is just fine, but there are a...
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Cypress SC-AMP-2 Active Scart Splitter review
This isn’t a SCART switch, but it might be of help in certain setups. Perhaps you own an XRGB3 and a DVDO Edge or other processor. You might want to use the DVDO’s deinterlacing for 480i material and...
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Keene SyncBlaster Black Box Review
The world of RGB and SCART can be a confusing one. Understanding the difference between RGB with composite sync, sync on green, composite video for sync and the myriad of other types of signal that...
View ArticleTurbo Everdrive review
NEC’s PC Engine line of consoles were dazzling gamers back in the late 80s and early 90s with their excellent coin-op conversions and bright, detailed graphics. Technology may have changed an awful lot...
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Retro Towers MegaDrive 1 Stereo RGB Cable
Since we reviewed the premium Pack-a-Punched Megadrive RGB SCART cable back in November 2012, several readers have pointed out that the cable we compared it to was flawed in the first place and a more...
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StarTech Component transcoder review
Depending on your setup you may need to convert component video to RGB but finding an affordable way to do so is not always easy. Furthermore, many devices which claim to be simple transcoders actually...
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Below are the screenshots we captured when testing the StarTech Transcoder. We tested the transcoder directly to our capture card and also through the XRGB Mini. By default the image shows the native,...
View ArticlePower Supply All-in-One for Sega Megadrive review
While most games consoles come and go without receiving any hardware upgrades, the Sega Megadrive received not one but two such upgrades during its lifetime. The Sega CD or Mega CD gave the machine...
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BNC RGB to female SCART review
SCART may have been the de-facto standard for consumer RGB, but when it came to professional or broadcast quality equipment, BNC cables were far more common. Now that older analogue RGB switches,...
View ArticleSCART to VGA/Extron cable review
This cable is the result of a project we’ve worked on with the guys over at Retrogamingcables.co.uk. It’s intended to solve one problem in particular, connecting SCART equipment to the Extron RGB...
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Extron Crosspoint review
You’ve got lots of games consoles, multiple displays or video processors and you’re sick of consumer grade switches, so what do you do? One solution is to get yourself an Extron Crosspoint switch. If...
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The pictures below show the Extron Crosspoint switch in action. The shots are of the 240p test suite running on a NTSC/Japanese Sega Megadrive with the Pack-a-Punched raw sync SCART cable. The SCART...
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Everdrive 64 V3 Review
Ah, the Nintendo 64! Who could forget their first magical glimpse of Super Mario 64? Back when the console launched it almost felt like a luxury version of the inevitably much more successful...
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SD2SNES Review
Flash cartridges for retro consoles have proven to be extremely popular with gamers. That’s hardly surprising, who wouldn’t want access to hundreds, even thousands of games on one cartridge? Well,...
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Dr HDMI Review
There’s nothing like ‘smart’ consumer electronics technology for reminding us all that the robot revolution is, thankfully, still some years away. Now that we’re all using HDMI and DVI monitors and...
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DivIDE 2k11 Review
You can watch a short video review/overview of this hardware by viewing this post. Computer gaming in the 1980’s could be a frustrating experience. Fast, affordable mass storage, hardware that the...
View ArticleDivIDE 2k11 – ZX Spectrum CF flashcart
Over on my Youtube channel I’ve posted a video review and overview of the DivIDE Sinclair Spectrum flash cart. This cool little device lets you load Spectrum games from Compact Flash, bypassing the...
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Cypress SC-AMP-2 Active Scart Splitter review
This isn’t a SCART switch, but it might be of help in certain setups. Perhaps you own an XRGB3 and a DVDO Edge or other processor. You might want to use the DVDO’s deinterlacing for 480i material and...
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