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PCTV Deluxe
tsumake - Apr 4, 2003
 tsumake Apr 4, 2003
I'm thinking about getting a pinnacle systems pctv deluxe in order to play my gamecube or any other system on my laptop. Has anyone had experience with this unit? How is the s-video input quality? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as well as screenshots . Thanks!

 Taelon Apr 4, 2003
Don't they sell mini flatscreen displays for the Cube?

 tsumake Apr 4, 2003
Yeah, but they all suck, badly. Colors are washed out, blacks look purplish because of the screen, and they have a low refresh rate which creates a ton of blurring. I've been using the psone monitor I have (the best one out IMO) but the saturation's still a bit off. There's no blurring and the black's dead on, but some colors come in a little weirdly, like the blues in Windwaker. Also, there is a lot of vertical shearing. I connect the GC via a camcorder-to-tv connector and some rca couplers. For the psone, it's a phenomenal monitor because it uses an RGB signal so games actually look better on the little monitor, that and the small size helps conceal the jaggies Off topic, but it's a monitor I highly recommend without reservation.

 emazur Apr 5, 2003
If you`re using a laptop, Ill assume this is a usb device. I don`t know if things have changed with usb2.0, but with a usb1.x tv tuner the picture will not be sync with the action, I guess cuz it takes extra time and/or cpu power to pipe stuff through the usb bus as opposed to a pci device. Don`t know if this applies for you in this case, but thought you might appreciate the warning

 tsumake Apr 5, 2003
Thanks for the head's up emazur. The PCTV deluxe, though has USB 2.0 input. I think it'll be fast enough.