AKURA Dreamcast HDMI Box

You are totally right, don't buy it. Keep dreaming and waiting infinitely.

 

I do not expect anything, everything that I need, I can do myself

 

I don't agree with you.
Tried serval vga to hdmi upscalers, one of 50 Euro and one of 200 Euro.
Both failed in stable outputs...
After this I bougvht a expensive Framemeister to be sure to get it working.

Your posts suggest it is a cheap prosuct on which I don't agree.
I own a Toro which has a great build quality and nice features!
Also you will get a good customer support...

 

i dont think that akura and ozones will have noticable difference. ozones will be better though. but again its gonna be a perfect vga to hdmi converter and the price is good. plus its already finalized.

 

@megavolt85 and @beharius,
This device and Ozone's one are similar, yet different. Ofc, this is simply a VGA-Box with vga2hdmi converter, whereas Ozone's device is a direct HDMI convertion of the digital video data, hence better quality and flexibility.

That said, until @OzOnE release his device, and for those who simply don't really care about optimal quality, vga-box + vga2hdmi is the way to go. It's very hard to find a proper affordable vga2hdmi adapter for DC that doesn't cut the image (because of its weirdish 720 width output) and this device is certainly a safer way to make it work than to buy a few converters until you find one that works.
BTW, the Sewell Hammerhead vga2hdmi is the converter I ended up using, and given its price and a vga box price, the Akura isn't a bad deal.

It doesn't hurt the consumer to have choices.

 

The device doesn't handle the resolution correctly. He mentioned this over on the shmups forums.

 

You are totally right. Without competition we can't develop and improve anything.
For those who can't solder and don't want to modify their consoles to keep its originality, external solutions are more convenient IMHO.

A few weeks ago, one of my friends in UK paid £170 for a modified DC console with a harddisk mod, it doesn't even have a bios mod. It wasn't working, so he asked me to check its mod, believe it or not probably the modder is a butcher, what a mess inside the console! So most people won't install these internal hdmi mods by themselves and will commission others to mod their consoles, so it will be an extra cost. Take it into account too.

 

What does that mean exactly.

AFAIU, most (all?) games don't output "effective" 720 width, there's 40 pixels worth of black on each sides which makes it effectively 640 width. Now idk the intricacies of the syncing, but that can confuse vga2hdmi converters. As long as the Akura effectively displays the same image as a vga-box would, that's legit in my book.

 

Yes, there is no difference between Hanzo and Akura.

 

Its an aspect ratio problem, http://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/Dreamcast

Yes its like all other vga boxes etc.

 

@-=FamilyGuy=- Is your Hammerhead upscaling to 1080p or keeping at 480p?

 

It preserves the input resolution.

The description online is confusing, but it is designed for PCs and doesn't rescale at all.
I think they just wanted to advertise that it does support 1080p. Back when 1080p was cool.

Full disclosure: I use a clone, not the original model.

 

OK. I have the same clone then. Thanks.

 

I don't think its expensive at all !

Considering all it does.

If this was for a neogeo.. That would cost in the hundreds... And no one would complain...

Props to the OP, that seems very well made.

Cheers

 

Oh, waiting for this fantastic product, my Dreamcast is happy. tnx

 

Thanks. Price is not yet determined, so it's not $75 actually, sorry for the confusion.
Btw here are some more videos:

 

I'm ready !

Awesome work

 

I'll be sure to get one of these!

 

Whilst you're entitled to voice your opinion, comments such as these are ignorant and serve no purpose. Kindly back up your opinion with FACT.

It's a reasonable price, and he said it isn't set in stone yet.

You miss the point of this device being a "plug and play" solution as an alternative to a modification. Yes, you can modify it yourself... but many can't and would pay for the modding service. If you're competent with a soldering iron, kindly keep your mouth shut and appreciate that others DO want another solution.

WHAT digital to digital converter?! The Dreamcast only outputs analogue!

@beharius - in the interests of fairness, please remember that this is a forum for open discussion. If this were the marketplace, sure - criticism of price isn't on. However, you're using us as a free portal to get market feedback. I would suggest taking all comments on board and indeed explaining rationally that it is a different solution and how the price is justified, as indeed you did. It wasn't "hijacking" your thread - you're here to gauge public opinion, are you not? That means you need to take criticism on board as well as praise.

 

to retro
1) downsample video from 768 kbps video stream and 256 kbps audio stream to 256 kbps video stream and 32 kbps audio stream, after resample this to video 768 kbps video stream 256 kbps audio stream
2) look not resampled video - is OsOne project
3) look resampled video - is ACURA Dreamcast HDMI Box
4) look video with 256 kbps video stream and 32 kbps audio stream - is china VGA to HDMI coverter

functional:
3 = ~4

price:
3) ~75$
4) ~25$