've got 4 retro consoles NES, SNES, Mega Drive 1, N64 all PAL (as I live in the Netherlands). I've been reading some things about video scalers, and was wondering what good will they do for me? I've got two LCD TV's with a scart RGB input. My SNES and MD use RGB. Most scalers I've seen using VGA for output, but that is 60hz (PAL is 50hz). Is it true that all VGA based scalers will show some sort of stuttering because of the framerate conversion? The SLG-in-a-box seems a very neat device with it's sync strike en scan line generator. But that one is also VGA based
The VGA connector isn't tied to any sync rate--there's no reason 288p50 RGB couldn't be upscanned to 31 kHz if the "scaler"/upscan device happened to support 288p and the display 576p50. Current upscan devices don't perform very advanced signal processing, almost certainly less advanced than your TV, so you should prefer to use the TV's native analog inputs where possible. I really doubt non-professional processors can do framerate conversion at all. If you did get an upscan device, you should get one with HDMI, not VGA as you have a LCD TV and every analog link means significantly increased noise.
