Category Archives: AV Guides

Articles on setting up and optimising audio and visual gear in your games room. Sorted alphabetically.

Solving the Dreamcast’s Video Cable Conundrum

Use one video cable to play the consoles entire library in full RGB video quality. Find out how in this article.

OSSC Pro’s Downscaling Delights

240p ought to be enough for anybody....

Retro Scaling Chain Reaction, can OSSC Help RetroTINK 5x be Even Better?

Is it worth chaining the OSSC and the RetroTINK 5x together? Find out in this article.

Light Guns and HDMI Mods

Worried that HDMI modding your console might break compatibility with light guns? Read this article to find out more.

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Building our New Games Room – Part 9 – The final build and closing thoughts

Part 9 takes a detailed look at the final build in our games room.

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Building our New Games Room – Part 8 – Furniture and fixings

In this article we discuss furniture choices for your video games room. What should you consider when accommodating all your consoles?

Building our New Games Room – Part 7 – Taming your Cables

In part 7 of our video games room write up, we discuss cable management solutions.

Building our New Games Room – Part 6 – Avoiding Connection Chaos

In Part 6 of our this series, we talk about choosing AV switching hardware, video [...]

Is OSSC the worlds best transcoder?

Should I buy an OSSC just to transcode? In this article we look at using the OSSC for converting between RGB and YPbPr.

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Building our New Games Room – Part 5 – Gearing up for AV

In this instalment we are going to be talking about the speakers and AV receiver we chose for our games room and how we incorporated HDM 2.1.