Time to ditch the TV?
May. 9th, 2009 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFollowing the first tranche of digital switchover — our analogue BBC2 was switched off on the 6th and replaced with some of the Beeb's digital channels — I decided to see if I couldn't complete the process of making my old TV and VCR obsolete by connecting my PS2 to my mac via my Elgato box.
Initially, I wasn't sure whether it was going to work — there was enough lag between the console and the display to make even RPGs unplayable — but once I realised that EyeTV had a game mode that bypassed the on-disc buffering, everything worked like a charm. And the quality of image? Far better than on my 25 year-old television.
So maybe I will get rid of my TV. And my VCR. And the little table they sit on. And replace them with some desperately needed bookshelves.
Initially, I wasn't sure whether it was going to work — there was enough lag between the console and the display to make even RPGs unplayable — but once I realised that EyeTV had a game mode that bypassed the on-disc buffering, everything worked like a charm. And the quality of image? Far better than on my 25 year-old television.
So maybe I will get rid of my TV. And my VCR. And the little table they sit on. And replace them with some desperately needed bookshelves.
