Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Nick Ferguson Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Interesting experiment Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 15:51:14 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <354DD5E2.879@saqnet.co.uk> References: <6ihhs8$jpr3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <354c8f1c.3125278@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <6iio7d$jpr15@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <354d0391.3979910@www.netyaroze-europe.com> Reply-To: nickf@saqnet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: atl4-007.publab.ed.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03 (Win95; I) Robert Swan wrote: > > On Sun, 3 May 1998 22:46:31 +0100, "Chain" > wrote: > > >Isn't this because these are old PSX system's... I think I read somewhere > >that they have an older custom Video chip in them, which is only slightly > >different, but which slows it down. Anyone got the answer? > > that would be wierd. A slower video chip would mean modern games that > push it to the limit would run slower on these psxs. surely sony > couldnt allow that difference in quality? > The truth of the matter is that the gradient banding is due to an older chip that was only in the older models of Playstation. It had nothing to do with speed, but the "banding" effect on on-screen graphics was more pronounced. Anyway, Sony replaced it with a better chip quite soon after the PAL launch. AFAIK, you can tell Sony that you have one of these "inferior" machines and they will send you a 2nd hand replacement... All this info is in the Playstation technical FAQ, which I read a while ago on uk.games.video.playstation If anyone cares, I can dig out the URL... there's some quite detailed technical info in it, actually. Nick F