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Picked up a Hyperkin Dreamcast cable that outputs via HDMI. I tried it out and it’s displaying in this tiny box on my TV. The box on the cable has no settings and the TV is a 1080 Sony Bravia.

I’m not sure what options I have aside from stretching the image via the TV settings but if anyone can assist, it would be appreciated. Thanks.

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Guessing that hyperkin thing isn't scaling the image to fill the screen. Does it have any instructions for scaling the image up at all? I would assume it should be scaling the image. It makes no sense to be outputting 480i/p through HDMI.

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Reading more about it, it doesn't seem to upscale at all. What a shame. You'll have to use your TV to scale the image with its "zoom" or fill function.

[–] macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No instructions at all. I just tinkered with my tv and the only “solution” is to have the DC in Full mode. I can live with that but it’s far from ideal. I would’ve liked something that scaled up.

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Problem is the using an HDMI out, can't really upscale that with simple upscalers made to upscale analog video.

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