Would love a demo and/or tutorial using retrotink 4k for home theater. For enthusiasts who have an OLED+atmos av receiver+4k Blu-ray player setup, I want to see how they can use the tink4k to get better motion clarity using BFI and other options the tink provides. I’m interested to see if the downscale from 4k to 1080p in exchange for better motion clarity is worth it. Thanks!!
I just stumbled across this video and I must say I really enjoyed it. I was just expecting to listen to it in the background as I'd already watched many videos on the RetroTink 4X including RetroRGB and My Life in Gaming, so I didn't think you'd have much to add.. but as the video went on, I found myself stopping my work (don't worry, it's not anything important - today's a 'typhoon day' here) and focusing on the video. Great information and great presentation!
I'm looking at this video on my Galaxy Note 4 OLED screen and holy crap. Seeing this stuff look this good when it's not emulation and it's running at its native resolution is very very cool. I might have bought a Hisense u9 DG if I had known about this scalar sooner lol
The power I'm interested in with this hardware is to simulate the nature of CRTs on current televisions. I have the Retrotink 5x and just discovered the power of sending an interlaced signal to it and enabling CRT simulate with bob, alternating the display lines, adding a slight flicker. This was after a full year of having it, I feel like I unlocked something special. Everything just looked....right, finally. SNES on a CRT didn't have razor sharp pixels, there was a blur to it that not even the Analogue Super NT gets with just the system itself. Hooked up my PS3 to it through component, put on an old wrestling DVD and it looks, how it should. PS3 games looks substantially better too, adding the bob and CRT mask just blends it all perfectly. Still have my CRT but it will die one day, so a replacement is needed, this might be worth it.
This is a fail because it only does 4K at 60Z, it should at least have been 120HZ. I would just wait for the next version of it or until they come out with a higher hz. You want a higher refresh rate so you get less bluring in fast moving retro games.
HDMI 2.1 chipset and the rest of the hardware being upgraded for it would have cost twice as much On TVs worth buying a $750 scaler for, the motion clarity is just fine at 60, or you can do 1440p120 and be fine
Great to hear that it's awesome. I don't own an OLED or anything 4K though. I'll wait on this device. I can't wait to see a simulated shadow mask or aperture grill in 4k though. On an OLED display is there bloom since each pixel can be turned off and on individually?
I soooo want one of these. You do fantastic work on this platform, your work in the field of stream technologies(as well as this channel and I'm following you on mastodon too, I'm not a fan of algorithm based apps, deleted most in 2019. I've been enjoying your commentaries on this channel even more so. As you never know who's life you'll change for the greater, even if you don't know you did. And in my personal opinion, Numbers never matter. It's the people we meet along the way that make all the differences in the world. Keep making the difference and this world a more amazing place. Til the next. 🎮🖖🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈😊 Marcus
@@maegnificant Glad you appreciate my compliments as well support to this person, as I had a little extra support then just words so I decided to give that support. So, thanks. Take care. -M
it's close to the ultimate device but it's missing analogue output for downscaling duties and auto loading of profiles, or programmable loading via IP or RS232 control. soooo close imo
Mine came in before Christmas and I was surprised it sold out. Thanks for the info, I've been messing around with mine and the settings are pretty awesome but overwhelming.
@@Zam1Fear It has a little more depth than modern flat tv, but since it is way smaller screen size you need less space for it than your big lcd. It is only heavy if you are a girl or wimp and you ain't gonna lift it daily, it will sit on stand so talking about weight makes no sense. Yea it serves no purpose if you don't use it, like any other tv. Nice logic.
It’s not free, decent CRTs cost quite a bit nowadays as people know gamers want them. Consumer CRTs aren’t great compared to PVMs or the high end CRTs which I can tell you now you won’t be getting for free in 2024. There’s a lot of good stuff on the horizon which will put CRTs to bed soon enough.
@@retropursuit992 10 days ago I got 2 19" that go up to 2048x1536. One was free, second was few euros, so basically free. Same models. I already had third one for a long time. Did it for fun triple setup. Nothing of that good stuff on the horizon beats something that is free.
CRT’s damaged my eyes and made me near-sighted. Playing with them these days hurts and gives me a headache. My eyesight literally stopped getting worse once society began switching to LCD’s, etc.
I don't have any retro consoles but I almost want to buy it just so that it upscales my content from 720p or 1080p to 4K to not need a strong GPU. What an incredible product, and I am saying that while not being able to appreciate its use cases.
Because emulation is clunky, difficult and not noob friendly. Most people don’t or can’t even do it legally. This is an awesome alternative, with original hardware.
Very impressive! Will you share a download link for the profiles later on?
Did he ever do it?
I'll be interested when this thing is 10x cheaper or thereabouts, until then RetroArch/Dolphin/PCSX2 etc. for me.
Would love a demo and/or tutorial using retrotink 4k for home theater. For enthusiasts who have an OLED+atmos av receiver+4k Blu-ray player setup, I want to see how they can use the tink4k to get better motion clarity using BFI and other options the tink provides. I’m interested to see if the downscale from 4k to 1080p in exchange for better motion clarity is worth it. Thanks!!
I just stumbled across this video and I must say I really enjoyed it. I was just expecting to listen to it in the background as I'd already watched many videos on the RetroTink 4X including RetroRGB and My Life in Gaming, so I didn't think you'd have much to add.. but as the video went on, I found myself stopping my work (don't worry, it's not anything important - today's a 'typhoon day' here) and focusing on the video. Great information and great presentation!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm looking at this video on my Galaxy Note 4 OLED screen and holy crap.
Seeing this stuff look this good when it's not emulation and it's running at its native resolution is very very cool.
I might have bought a Hisense u9 DG if I had known about this scalar sooner lol
Awesome.. that's much needed product. glad you made an enhanced (explained) video on this.
The power I'm interested in with this hardware is to simulate the nature of CRTs on current televisions.
I have the Retrotink 5x and just discovered the power of sending an interlaced signal to it and enabling CRT simulate with bob, alternating the display lines, adding a slight flicker.
This was after a full year of having it, I feel like I unlocked something special.
Everything just looked....right, finally. SNES on a CRT didn't have razor sharp pixels, there was a blur to it that not even the Analogue Super NT gets with just the system itself.
Hooked up my PS3 to it through component, put on an old wrestling DVD and it looks, how it should.
PS3 games looks substantially better too, adding the bob and CRT mask just blends it all perfectly.
Still have my CRT but it will die one day, so a replacement is needed, this might be worth it.
Are you using an hdmi switch with your scaler and PS3 to bypass
That's one way to get around the hdcp encryption. Thanks for mentioning that! I guess I won't have to buy an hdmi splitter after all!
ps3 with crt looks? lol the games on that console was made for hd screen
This is a fail because it only does 4K at 60Z, it should at least have been 120HZ. I would just wait for the next version of it or until they come out with a higher hz. You want a higher refresh rate so you get less bluring in fast moving retro games.
HDMI 2.1 chipset and the rest of the hardware being upgraded for it would have cost twice as much
On TVs worth buying a $750 scaler for, the motion clarity is just fine at 60, or you can do 1440p120 and be fine
Still 480i dose not look as good on scalers vs CRTs
Great to hear that it's awesome. I don't own an OLED or anything 4K though. I'll wait on this device. I can't wait to see a simulated shadow mask or aperture grill in 4k though. On an OLED display is there bloom since each pixel can be turned off and on individually?
Yes modulation controls plus the natural contrast of OLED definitely lets you create a blooming look. Its nice
Oled doesnt have bloom exactly because each pixel is lit individually
I soooo want one of these. You do fantastic work on this platform, your work in the field of stream technologies(as well as this channel and I'm following you on mastodon too, I'm not a fan of algorithm based apps, deleted most in 2019. I've been enjoying your commentaries on this channel even more so. As you never know who's life you'll change for the greater, even if you don't know you did. And in my personal opinion,
Numbers never matter. It's the people we meet along the way that make all the differences in the world. Keep making the difference and this world a more amazing place. Til the next.
🎮🖖🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈😊 Marcus
Thank you very much!!!
@@lostsaves Always an honor. 🖖🎮
5 dollar ramble
@@maegnificant Glad you appreciate my compliments as well support to this person, as I had a little extra support then just words so I decided to give that support. So, thanks. Take care. -M
i love ur channel so much thanks for making vids
Glad you like them!
Hows the input lag on one of those ?
Very low
it's close to the ultimate device
but it's missing analogue output for downscaling duties
and auto loading of profiles, or programmable loading via IP or RS232 control.
soooo close imo
Can’t use light guns 🤦♂️
Mine came in before Christmas and I was surprised it sold out. Thanks for the info, I've been messing around with mine and the settings are pretty awesome but overwhelming.
The 5x killed CRTs for me
It does not have Display Port output !
Of course not…
CRT is free
It's also huge, heavy af, and serves little purpose if you're not gaming on it.
@@Zam1Fear It has a little more depth than modern flat tv, but since it is way smaller screen size you need less space for it than your big lcd. It is only heavy if you are a girl or wimp and you ain't gonna lift it daily, it will sit on stand so talking about weight makes no sense. Yea it serves no purpose if you don't use it, like any other tv. Nice logic.
It’s not free, decent CRTs cost quite a bit nowadays as people know gamers want them.
Consumer CRTs aren’t great compared to PVMs or the high end CRTs which I can tell you now you won’t be getting for free in 2024.
There’s a lot of good stuff on the horizon which will put CRTs to bed soon enough.
@@retropursuit992 10 days ago I got 2 19" that go up to 2048x1536. One was free, second was few euros, so basically free. Same models. I already had third one for a long time. Did it for fun triple setup. Nothing of that good stuff on the horizon beats something that is free.
CRT’s damaged my eyes and made me near-sighted. Playing with them these days hurts and gives me a headache.
My eyesight literally stopped getting worse once society began switching to LCD’s, etc.
Great Video!
Glad you enjoyed it
TVS RGB LUZ Limpar rápido AV CRT bonitos OFF gosto sim muito 👁🥰👌✅🎮 jogos importante estudar perfeito PASS
TVS Composite rium AV ou HDMI ruim porblemo jogos coisas LED HDR UHD LCD SDR feios 👎👁☹ não gosto
Scanlines ❤
Scaler4x ❤
ScaleFX ❤
CRT ❤❤❤❤
CRT Geom ❤
Ossc ❤
Scale9x ❤❤❤❤
Scale2x ❤❤
What if I don't do 4K?
Then get the 5X or the GBS-C AIO for much cheaper
The 4k does have BFI at those lower resolutions though. @@lostsaves
another channel???? nice
I don't have any retro consoles but I almost want to buy it just so that it upscales my content from 720p or 1080p to 4K to not need a strong GPU. What an incredible product, and I am saying that while not being able to appreciate its use cases.
oh damn im REALLY early huh
Squaaaad
why not save your money and just use an emulator lol
Different people prefer to play different ways.
Because emulation is clunky, difficult and not noob friendly. Most people don’t or can’t even do it legally. This is an awesome alternative, with original hardware.
I spent my childhood playing Super Nintendo games on an emulator. I want the real thing now.