Pound Technology PS2/PS1 HDMI Cable Review

<p>As most of you know&comma; I love my older games and my older systems&period; But&comma; as technology has changed it has become more and more difficult to attach A&sol;V cables to a flat screen television&period; Out of the 4 flat screen tvs I have only two have a designated A&sol;V port&comma; the rest have a Component port that can be &&num;8220&semi;used&&num;8221&semi; as an A&sol;V port&period; Those have never worked for me&comma; they seem to switch between A&sol;V and Component and all the colors are wrong and it&&num;8217&semi;s just a pain in my flat ass&period; For years I was relegated to having all 8 retro systems on one television&comma; first-world problems&comma; I know&period; However&comma; with Pound Technology surprising me every few months with a new Retro Cable&comma; it is getting easier and easier for me to connect my older consoles to bigger and more advanced televisions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I received my HDMI cord from Limited Run Games and I was not disappointed&period; The box came perfect&comma; the cord was clean and not frayed and everything fit snugly into the PlayStation 2&period; I was using a Component Cable that I had purchased a several months back&comma; but it always made me nervous&period; The cable fit into the PlayStation 2 so tight that I was always worried I was going to rip out something important when I removed it&period; The Pound Cable slid in nice and smooth and I don&&num;8217&semi;t worry about that PlayStation 2 port anymore&period; This Pound Cable needs to have power&comma; which may actually make it superior to the OG Xbox and Dreamcast cables that they sell as well&period; You can plus the power cable right into your PlayStation 2&semi; the only downside to this is the fact that you have a 4 foot or so cable to wrap around somewhere&period; I wrapped mine around the base of the PlayStation 2&comma; it isn&&num;8217&semi;t in the way yet so hopefully it&&num;8217&semi;ll stay like that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;142951" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-142951" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-142951" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;24001138&sol;2018-07-29&lowbar;PS1&lowbar;Brave-Fencer-Musashi&lowbar;HD-Link&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"348" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-142951" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Brave Fencer Musashi<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Squaresoft &&num;8211&semi; using Pound Cable&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>At first I was worried when I fired up the PlayStation 2 with the cord&semi; the whole screen was green and I almost panicked&period; Then I realized I needed to change the output in the System Configuration&comma; so I took it off Component and changed it to RGB&period; Once I did that&comma; I was simply amazed at how the stupid menu screen looked&excl; Those cubes in the menu have never looked so crisp and clear&excl; <em>Onimusha&colon; Warlords<&sol;em> was already in my disc tray so I frantically pressed the eject button to the return the disc into the system&period; I have never seen the Capcom logo so beautifully across my television screen from the PlayStation 2&period; After watching the opening cut-scene of <em>Onimusha<&sol;em> I knew that I had spent my thirty dollars wisely&period; I know that I&&num;8217&semi;ve only just scratched the surface with the amazing PlayStation 2 library&period; On my next couple days off I will definitely be browsing through my collection to see what games will look the best with this new cable&period; Grab this thing Retro Lovers&comma; you will not be disappointed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;