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This Portta surprised me…..at least the composite video upscaling. It actually looks pretty darn good for composite video! For retro games like the SNES, it provides a nice clean image. There is still dot crawl in text, but pixel wobble isn’t noticeable at all. In fact, the composite video image on retro games looks nearly as good wirh this as it does in my Retrotink 2x, and the 2x has noticeable pixel wobble. The color is also much more vibrant with the Portta via composite. It is doing some type of upscaling, it’s not just a transcoder. There’s a button to switch between 1080p and 720p, but you’ll be hard pressed to tell the difference. 720p mode also caused some games to black out for a few seconds. 1080p had no problems.
Another supervising thing about this scaler; it works great with old video players like VHS and Laserdisc. If used in conjunction with a modern HDTV with upscaling, you can get a fairly good image. I took some pics from My Alien/Aliens laserdiscs sets. Not bad at all.
Now for the bad.
As others have noted, S-video is absolute crap with this. Like the worst I’ve ever seen. There are white streaks, bleeding and horrible dot crawl when using this with retro consoles. It’s like they put all the effort in making this into the composite image, and just said “to heck with it” with the s-video. And I used an OEM Nintendo S-video cable with the SNES, but it didn’t matter a bit. So, if you’re planning on getting this just for S-video, DON’T.
But for composite video, for games or old video formats, this is a great performer.
