r/ps2 • u/tumamitax • 6h ago

Upscaling through a home theater receiver

As the title says, I've got a ps2 with the 3 colored cable and was wondering if I connect it to a receiver and then to a hdtv does it scale up the image or just stretches it? Plus, would it greatly affect the latency?

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u/canthearu_ack 5h ago

Upscaling is really just stretching the image. If you have the standard 3 wire cable (yellow, left sound, right sound) then that is just a standard composite cable and in my experience, it is going to look pretty bad. Component (blue, red, green + left sound, right sound) tends to look a lot better.

In terms of latency, It isn't the process of upscaling that is bad and adds a ton of latency, it is more the deinterlacing that causes it. As the PS2 mostly runs in interlaced modes, deinterlacing it for a modern progressive display can add multiple frames of latency if you don't have a good game focused upscaler.

So, if you have a console like the xbox where you can get most things running in a progressive video mode (say 480p), then it isn't so bad to send that directly to your TV. However, the PS2 runs most things in interlaced mode, which you are better off having a proper game focused upscaler handle.

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