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  • November 15, 2020 at 4:34 PM in reply to: Just live with it? #42844
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      Hey there, i think i may have the same TV as you and though i don’t have a solution, i atleast think i have an explanation what is happen. The issue is simply the TV does not recognize the oddball resolutions of the PAL systems being line multiplied. NTSC signals like 280p(1x), 480p(2x), 720p(3x), 960p(4x) and 1200p(5x) all work fine as the tvs are designed to take those signals, but then we have thsee oddball PAL resolutions being multiplied which would be 288p(1x), 576p(2x), 864p(3x), 1152(4x) and lastly 1440p(5x) which for that last one, only displays though the OSSC because we can set line5x output mode to 1920×1080 which results in the cutting of those extra 360 lines from the top and bottom (1440-1080=360).

      Additionally the reason some PAL consoles still look OK in 5X like the NES and SNES is because those systems filled the additional space between 240p and 288p with black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, so by a happy accident, 5X mode still crops the screen but its only those black bars. The N64 instead utilized the whole 288p/576i resolution, which is great for PAL CRT users, but not so much PAL OSSC users. This is just sadly a glaring downside of using a line-multiplier over a scaler, the only real solutions I can see is either find a Framemeister or get excited for the OSSC pro which should solve this issue with scaling.

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