Half the price, almost as nice?
There’s been a lot of chatter recently regarding the $750 RetroTINK 4K, a new-generation analogue-to-digital upscaling device designed around 4K TVs. As the apex of the RetroTINK line of upscalers, the RetroTINK 4K is, by all accounts, an amazing piece of kit (we sadly haven’t had the pleasure of using one yet, but hopefully that will change soon) – but it’s not the only option out there if you’re aiming to make your old consoles look as good as possible on modern-day television.
In case you’re still scratching your head and wondering exactly what an upscaler is, allow us to explain. Old consoles with analogue outputs don’t tend to play nice with flatscreen TVs. While it’s still possible to connect them up to many modern televisions, you often get a muddy image, as the TV is fed the SD signal and clumsily attempts to blow it up to HD resolution. The end result is a picture that looks pretty terrible and certainly doesn’t do your vintage game systems justice.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Half the price, almost as nice?
There’s been a lot of chatter recently regarding the $750 RetroTINK 4K, a new-generation analogue-to-digital upscaling device designed around 4K TVs. As the apex of the RetroTINK line of upscalers, the RetroTINK 4K is, by all accounts, an amazing piece of kit (we sadly haven’t had the pleasure of using one yet, but hopefully that will change soon) – but it’s not the only option out there if you’re aiming to make your old consoles look as good as possible on modern-day television.
In case you’re still scratching your head and wondering exactly what an upscaler is, allow us to explain. Old consoles with analogue outputs don’t tend to play nice with flatscreen TVs. While it’s still possible to connect them up to many modern televisions, you often get a muddy image, as the TV is fed the SD signal and clumsily attempts to blow it up to HD resolution. The end result is a picture that looks pretty terrible and certainly doesn’t do your vintage game systems justice.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
