My Genesis Looks Terrible on my LCD

[racketboy]

it's just an extremely low resolution your feeding the little bugger.

I have a 1080p DLP screen and my genny games just look putrid on it... well, somewhat putrid. But it hardly bothers me. I'm modding my JVC X'eye so that it has S-vid and hopefully that will make it look a little nicer.

Just look at it, your stretching a 256x224 picture up to whatever your monitor is. And the video signal of that 256x224 image is coming through a crappy little composite cable. There's only so much the deinterlacer and scaler in your TV can do to this poor poor little picture.

Now eggman brings up a good point about the quality of your deinterlacer. But I don't think it's that your monitor has a shotty one, oh no, it is probably pretty damn good for an in TV built scaler/deinterlacer... downside to this though, there are much better aftermarket ones sold out there. It doesn't make yours sub-par, it makes yours average.

I used to send my genny, NES, Saturn directly to the TV via composite... looked like snot smeared in a rag. you get ghosties, the image seems blurred, and text is impossible to read.

First I upped my connections to as high as possible (for the most part S-vid), and then I got an aftermarket scaler. I use a HDMI 1080p scaler built into my Marantz AV receiver. This thing has done magic to the picture... now I wouldn't call it a giant leep in improvement, but it certainly has cleared up some stuff... I can actually play Jurassic Park on SCD now and be able to read all the text on screen.

How much do these things run and what models do you recommend?