Nice overview Doug! Very interesting comparison of what's available. And it felt like it was only 10 minutes long really, no worries. ;) Also, I have to check the PAL composite signal from my A1000 now. I wonder if it is as good as your NTSC signal. Personally, I basically copied Mr Kola's setup 1:1 after seeing his Twitch when I started streaming myself. The OSSC and RetroTink2X cover almost all inputs I could ever want for my retro computers. And best of all, they both have so little lag that playing games feels very close to playing on a CRT.

Here for Kola but the video is amazing and I ended up watching the whole thing!

Nice video as always, and an extra bonus to get to see two of my favorite retro dudes within just once click

Another great video Doug. I was AMAZED at the 1000 composite output. Having used a 520 back in the day, wow.... Really enjoyed Mr Kola's contribution too.

Hi Doug!! Another great and very practical video. That is what is so good about your work. You cover extensively and give solutions to our everyday amiga issues. Waiting for the next one...

I’ve actually found that scart to HDMI box excellent with good colours (not too bright or indeed washed out) and with a good RGB to scart cable the picture quality is great with no snow. I recently picked up ostensibly the same box here in japan but with rca input rather than scart and it’s another good one! Also no perceptible lag using these boxes I’ve been able to play RType etc all fine via these. Another great video 36 minute 57 seconds Amiga Retro cast!

Great vid 10minutes flew by loved it, thanks for showing us the big picture you're so scart!

Great video, thanks! I used to have a simple SCART-RGB cable which connected to my TV, and it gave a very good picture. When I upgraded to OSSC, I noticed 3 things: 1. The screen is even sharper than the already great screen that SCART-RGB gives. 2. The delay between changing screen modes is now noticeable, but that is the fault of the TV not being able to sync quickly enough. When capturing the image with a capture card and looking at OBS, there is no delay. So depending on TV, there is or is not a delay when changing screen modes. 3. Interlaced screen modes have a noticeable flickering when using the built-in deinterlacer of OSSC. The deinterlacer can be disabled in order to use the deinterlacer of the display. In my case, OBS shows a perfect deinterlaced picture, but my TV cannot handle it, it has no picture whatsoever. Thus, I just need to get used to the flickering in interlaced screen modes when using OSSC :( Overall, for gaming and streaming it's easy to recommend OSSC, but if you use interlaced screen modes very much, you are going to get headaches.

Great video! Because I also stream Amiga on occasion, I have an RGB->SCART cable running into a scart distributor. One output of the distributor goes to an RGB->Component converter that goes to a CRT, the other output of the distributor goes to a scaler (the cheap one you show, not one of Kola's fancy ones), which then goes to the capture card. I'd love to get an OSSC of any kind at some point, but that's all pretty decent actually, and I'm looking at the CRT, so my view is amazing ;)

Good stuff, Doug. I use an RGB to Scart cable with my A1000 to connect to a 1084 (some Euro ones had Scart).

Great video again! :D I don’t know why I find this stuff so interesting. Videogameperfection have the ossc +psu +remote for €128 now, seems like they had a recent big price drop. I’m definitely getting one eventually. (For now I have the same little scart to hdmi black box you both have one of, haha!)

Super nice video Doug! Thanks for the great contents!

One fun thing you can try for a project which I have done and it's quite amusing: Get a downscaler which takes HDMI as input and outputs s-video/composite (s-video looks much nicer) and then hook that up to a 1084 monitor. For s-video you can get a splitter to change it to 2 luma/chroma leads to connect to your 1084. Be sure to push the button to switch from composite mode to luma/chroma. You can use your 1084 as a secondary monitor on any modern PC/Mac and it works very well! haha. I've even used it to watch Friends on Netflix (90s shows should only be watched on CRT) and even used it as a screen for my Nintendo Switch

Hey... I know that guy! Good video Doug :)

I got the Retrotink SCART input version, and I've been super happy with that. Super sharp, next to no latency, and can carry audio all the way through, as both Scart and HDMI cables can carry the audio signals.

Great break down again Doug. For reference I have the HD Converter that looks identical to yours, mine has been great for the last few years, but sometimes it does stop syncing and you have to switch between SCART/HDMI to force it to re-sync. Only a minor quibble considering that it cost me £12 back then. Still hoping that Jens comes out with the AGA MK3 that he mentioned back in Decemeber 2019 so that my A1200 can be brought up to the glory of the A500 (Has the Indivision ECS mk2 which is faultless).

Great video.

thanks for the video. wow, the composite picture from that A1000 is amazing. Composite usually looks real bad but on that one it looked very acceptable.

Great informative video. Thank you.

I'll definitely have to check out that RGB to Component device. I decided to go with the GBS-8220 as my upscaler, and the video quality is marginal - even with the copper tape on the bottom there's still a ton of noise. It might be due to the old, cheapo Samsung SyncMaster 710MP LCD TV/monitor I'm using for my display, though. I do like that the monitor has a composite input so I can use the DCTV box and it doesn't drive my eyeballs nuts from interlace flicker.

Another great info from Dough, this time about currently available external upscalers. I have an old standard Amiga RGB/DB23 to 31kHz VGA/DB9 adapter that is rock solid, very good image quality, but unfortunately, I haven't seen them available anymore. I'll eagerly wait for a new episode featuring internal solutions, from Indivision's boards, to fully RTG solutions for the bigger machines (including the recent MNT ZZ9000).

Very informative video as always Doug! I use a RGB scart cable to a Scart -> HDMI converter to capture and stream from my Amiga 500, C64 and other retro consoles. The image quality is satisfactory, but these cheaper converters do have a problem with smooth hardware scrolling because they interpret the signal wrong and always try to deinterlace it even if it doesn't have to. The result is stuttering when the screen is scrolling and it turns some fast intentional flickering (like say if you get hit and the sprite starts to flicker to show you're invurnerable for a limited time) into some kind of a mush instead. In the end though they get the job done and they are a cheap way into recording and streaming retro hardware, but for my future upgrade I'm saving money for a xRGB Mini Framemeister. It can take all type of videosignals like RGB, Component, S-Video and composite and upscale it into a fantastic flickerfixed and properly scrolling picture. The downside is that it is very expensive at several hundred dollars and it has pretty slow sync. So if you're using hardware that changes resolution a lot like doing productivity on an Amiga or playing on a Playstation 1 or Sega Saturn the screen will blank out for 3-5 seconds every single time it changes resolution which can be pretty annoying. I was thinking about going with an OSSC for my RGB stuff and Retrotink for my composite and S-video, but it would be just as expensive as just getting a second-hand Framemeister plus it would be more cable management and more clutter with several devices and I have very limited space.

Doug! Hahah. I just asked you about this! Then here is your video! Anyway. I bought one off Ebay for $99. Said it was a modified one meant for arcade machines to with Amiga. Hopefully it works. (hadn’t seen your video yet)

I have a Composite to HDMI which I use to capture my CD32. I got a SCART to HDMI for my A600, but just get a Grey Screen with hint of Icons + folders --- It works fine for capturing VHS tapes, so not a total loss.

Nice video! I personally already have a OSSC and it works great for all the retro computers I have. You do have to tweak some of the nitty gritty settings on it itself, for some systems to get the best out of it. Very often you'll find settings on a forum, and you just program them in. Once done though, you can save it as a profile, so your favourite settings are waiting for you, when you jump from machine to machine. Most of the machines I've used, including my 1200, worked fine from default. With the latest firmware, there's even OSD now, so you don't need to see the little screen as you play with settings. (The OSD can be turned off and on) I may get myself a Retrotink 2x Pro at some point though, for the few composite/SVHS devices I have. That does look interesting. One thing I'd like to add though is not all SCART is SCART RGB. Some just carry composite or SVHS (S-Video) or even Component. So you have to be very sure what the device / cable is actually carrying, because they're wired up differently. You also need to check which resistors (if any) are wired into the cable, because this can change the colour brightness a whole lot. The colours can be either too bright or too dim. So again with most things, either gain the knowledge on how to make a good one, or buy from a good well known seller. (I personally buy mine) Another thing I'd like to recommend is to invest in "Ferrite chokes". Either only buy cables with them in already, or buy some that you can fit yourself. I have them for some video cables and audio cables. They help clear up noise. For example, I sometimes get the same buzzing sound like you have on one part of the video. I cleared that up with a "ground loop noise isolator 3.5mm". Also, plug in your different devices to change signals etc, to the same power strip. This can help hide mains hum. For those that may be interested, I capture using a OSSC and a Elgator HD60S. The Elgato software can be a bit hit or miss sometimes, but most of the time, nothing that a Windows reset doesn't fix! I hope you take all that as some helpful tips for you and your subs, of what I've personally found actually helps to knock things up a grade. Again, nice one Doug!

I use an RGB to SCART cable from my A1200, and then a SCART to HDMI converter that looks identical to the one you showed. Usually the quality it outputs has been absolutely fine, except a small bit of distortion when clicking menus / moving Windows I think. However, currently I got some issue that I did not get time to look at yet. I migrated my A1200 to a Checkmate A1500 Plus case, and I also purchased a new RGB to SCART cable from Amigakit, which is very plastic like... where I think the RGB/Video plug on the Amiga side on the old cable was metal, and 23 pin I think, where the new one is a cut down 25 pin. Now, I changed the cable because from time to time I had the image disappear and come back within a couple of seconds (not good for gameplay), but the issue I mentioned I now have is that the image goes away much more often... like several times a minute.... So, what changed.... well RF shielding of the Amiga 1200 is of course gone, as it is now in the Desktop chassis, where it was not possible to keep the shielding. And the RGB to SCART cable was replaced..... So first thing I will do in the next days is to put back the old RGB to SCART cable and see if that fixes the issue.... Monitor is a BenQ XL2420T which natively support 15 KHz. So picture is absolutely fine, when it is there. :P

Good video Doug, as always. I notice the OSSC is showing as€110 , about $120 at present.

Some bad noise around 13 minute mark, probably from that converter. Great information though as usual.

One thing worth noting is not all SCART to HDMI adapters use the RGB pins of SCART and only use the composite pins so you won't get as nice of an image. Also not all SCART cables have the internal wires connected to the RGB pins. Also RGB SCART cables dont always have the internal wire for CSYNC so the sync information is passed mixed with the green signal which causes video artifacts. Unsure if this is an issue for the Amiga a CSYNC SCART cable removed all the banding artifacts in the sky in sonic the hedgehog on the mega drive. So what people should learn from this is SCART has a lot of pins but the actual cable might not have those pins connected to anything to make the cable cheaper.

Great video,but i wish you would test with pal modes as well as using a fast moving game like r-type or some such to see if there is trailing or lag.

I use a 23pin to VGA adapter hooked up to the gbs-8200 with a standard VGA cable. The gbs-8200 is upgraded with the gbscontrol firmware. (This input method would not work without gbscontrol I think) VERY nice picture quality and no noticeable lag.

Hey Doug, love the channel. Just a quick note to say that while your audio is very warm and clear, there is some audio static in this video which seems to happen when you move. I assume it's something with a lapel mic. It sounds very high and scratchy like electrical static from a dirty connector rather than the white noise of your collar brushing the mic itself. It's not terribly disruptive I suppose but I thought I'd let you know. Other than that your audio is super clear.

You know how some good films feel like they're over really quickly but it was actually 3 hours long? Your episodes *feel* like they're 10 minutes long ;-)

By the way, I see a number of optional stuff for the OSSC. Remote (is it needed if just using it for Amiga?), and then something about overlay?

Thanks for sharing! Over the past few years I have spent more than I care too on getting my displays from Amiga's to various monitors. It's a journey I would not wish upon anyone especially those on a tight budget. I don't need do I utilize anything to do with video capture but should that need arise the information in this video will be helpful. I do use a blend of different solutions and cards to provide decent video outputs from my Amiga Collection which works well for me but may not for everyone so having options is always a good thing.

I am have the Indivision ECS V2 for my A500+ and a Indivision AGA MK2 for my A1200. They work ok but cost a bit and have on sound so you still need some speakers to play the audio. I have a PC display that has got VGA for the Indivision ECS V2 and HDMI with a adapter for the Indivision AGA MK2.# The display is a Samsung S27B550V. with VGA and HDMI ports on the back.

Does your GBS-8200 + the component adapter handle the PAL frequencys? My GBS-8200 locks up if I switch to PAL mode.

Is that buzzing sound on the SCART to HDMI demonstration a fluke or is it always there? It changed from screen to screen so it seemed to be signal cross talk of the video signal into the HDMI audio.

in my currently working amiga 500 plus i have installed an indivision ecs to get a modern vga compatible signal out of the amiga. for any other amigas without rtg (using classic screenmodes) i currently only have rgb to scart cable at disposal, without any additional adapter or doubler. but this cable only solution has really crappy picture quality, barely readable, even in non interlaced modes. :(

Was there more than 1 version of Zoom for the Amiga? The one I own (on the same compilation disk that I had as a child) looks and sounds different than this one

guay!!!

Whoaaaaa, tzzzzs liar🤥 , 10minutes Perfect stuff as usual

There is a big difference when using scart on the 500 vs on the 1200. The 500 looks rock solid beautiful but the difference on my 1200 with the same resolution looks oddly washed out and not as rock solid.

This guy's voice reminds me of Casey Kasem

Hi Mr Kola, can you help me? can you help me for the OSSC Amiga profiles .jason ? can you share the file to import? thanks a lot! and Regards from Rome.

I think you'd be hard pushed to buy a TV without SCART in Europe, even now!

And no interlace on OSSC!

Showing Mr. Kola is a shame. This guy is a runsacker. He shouldn't say that he belongs to the Amiga community. We deserve better.