[Irinikus]

Today I decided to do some experimenting to determine the difference in performance between an AV to HDMI converter and the SGI Indy in displaying the output of retro consoles.



First up I tried the SEGA Saturn running WipeOut, and confirmed the fact that the video quality is significantly degraded when compared to the output from the Indy, due to the image being "stretched" to fit the native resolution of the screen, being 1920x1080. Yes, the AV to HDMI converter does upsampling, but that only helps so much!

Even tough the video quality was less than desirable, there was no lag experienced.



When it came to the SEGA MEGA DRIVE, the colours were completely out and the image had vertical stripes in it, when using the AV to HDMI converter!



When using the Indy to display the output, the colours were correctly represented and there were no vertical stripes to be found in the image!





This proves that the Indy performs extremely well in the field!

[Irinikus]