Difference on colour output of different models of PS2

[maskrider]

The laser head of my SCPH-10000 has recently broken down and it has finally gone off duty. While continue playing game on my long bought brand new SCPH-37000L (Ocean Blue), I noticed that there is a difference in colour at the output. Looks like the colour tempreatures are different.

edit: with the same S-Video cable, the same capture card and the same software

edit2: the SCPH-10000 shots were also newly captured as I had replaced the laser head of SCPH-10000 and it is working but sometimes it stutters during FMV, and I am unsuccessful in adjusting the position screws make it smooth again.

The white in SCPH-10000 is white, but the white in SCPH-37000L is yellowish, similar to my SCPH-39004 (PAL), which I previously thought was just a PAL and NTSC machines difference.

Here are links to 5 pairs of pictures (pretty big as they are un-resized and un-processed PNGs), you can see the difference.

Pair 1
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-1-10000.png
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-1-37000L.png

Pair 2
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-2-10000.png
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-2-37000L.png

Pair 3
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-3-10000.png
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-3-37000L.png

Pair 4
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-4-10000.png
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-4-37000L.png

Pair 5
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-5-10000.png
http://felixmcli.org/extlinks/37000L-10000/shII-5-37000L.png

 

[ShinHoshi]

I prefer the output of the 37000L...

 

[cthellis42]

Wacky. ^_^ Certainly not anything people are really going to notice except in side-by-side comparisons, though.

I prefer the 37000's in #3, don't really care for #4, but prefer to the 1000's in the rest, offhand. I don't really like the "yellowish" effect, except that in #3 it makes that scene more vibrant.

 

[darkblu]

maskrider, can you try the two machines over a VGA cable on a vga display (yah, i know displays featuring sync on green are rather rare) ?

 

[maskrider]

maskrider, can you try the two machines over a VGA cable on a vga display (yah, i know displays featuring sync on green are rather rare) ?

But with that I cannot take direct feed screenshots, only digital photos which will differ from time to time.

I have a Blaze VGA adaptor, but then I can only test on games with Progressive outputs. And the green output is a little excessive on the Blaze VGA adaptor.

 

[darkblu]

But with that I cannot take direct feed screenshots, only digital photos which will differ from time to time.

screw the screenshots, just place the two outputs side by side under the same lighting conditions and let your eyes do the job : )

I have a Blaze VGA adaptor, but then I can only test on games with Progressive outputs. And the green output is a little excessive on the Blaze VGA adaptor.

well, i didn't mean using blaze as it may have its custom color space conversion circuitry that, i believe, would hamper the objectivness of the test, but if that circuitry is same/similar enough to the minimalistic display adapter of the linux ps2 kit then i guess blaze would do.

 

[London Geezer]

But with that I cannot take direct feed screenshots, only digital photos which will differ from time to time.

screw the screenshots, just place the two outputs side by side under the same lighting conditions and let your eyes do the job : )

I have a Blaze VGA adaptor, but then I can only test on games with Progressive outputs. And the green output is a little excessive on the Blaze VGA adaptor.

well, i didn't mean using blaze as it may have its custom color space conversion circuitry that, i believe, would hamper the objectivness of the test, but if that circuitry is same/similar enough to the minimalistic display adapter of the linux ps2 kit then i guess blaze would do.

The Blaze VGA Adapter does in fact have its own circuitry, which explains why it works on EVERY monitor and not only the ones with sync-on-green like the original one that comes with Linux Kit (unless it has more to do with the software...). However i'm not sure it changes the colour balance, it might, it might not, in the end unless one tries the same scene with both the LinuxKit-cable and the Blaze Adapter, we'll never know...

Still, worth a try...