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user181

09-04-2020 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Outland (Post 3227275)

My solution was to get one of these and an HDCP stripper. This way, the playback device thinks it's a regular 1080p HDTV.

This will letterbox the content, so you will still be stuck with borders on 4:3 content through this setup. Also, I haven't actually tested this yet.

I’ve been looking at that Gefen converter earlier today, which appears to be higher-quality than the countless cheapo units out there. It’s pricier but it seems like something I’d be much happier with.

Do you know if it will still have the problem with 16:9 content being horizontally squeezed to fit a 4:3 screen though?

I did see that an HDCP defeater would be needed since the Gefen isn’t compliant. Which one of those did you buy?

Electronic M

09-04-2020 08:48 PM

If you have squished 4x3 composite out of a converter you could feed that into an extron video scaler then take the VGA output of the extron and feed that into a VGA to composite converter....the Exitron can be configured to create letterbox or cropped out of squeezed video.

Outland

09-05-2020 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by user181 (Post 3227279)

The Gefen converter should letterbox 16:9 content.

I heard this one works well. Like I said, I haven't tested everything together yet.

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