{"id":345,"date":"2009-05-28T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T02:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/?p=345"},"modified":"2009-05-28T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T02:09:04","slug":"castrade-game-box-converter-connects-upscales-consoles-to-any-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/2009\/05\/28\/castrade-game-box-converter-connects-upscales-consoles-to-any-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Castrade Game Box Converter Connects, Upscales Consoles To Any Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"castrade.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2009\/05\/castrade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Expensive adapters combined with endless scaling woes can make connecting a console to your LCD monitor or project a daunting prospect. Castrade&#8217;s Game Box makes the process as painless as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The box will accept video input from your Wii, PS3, or pretty much anything else that uses a common video cable, and properly scale it to an LCD-friendly resolution, preventing your console from reverting to a low-quality video mode just because your 1280&#215;1024 monitor doesn&#8217;t support the specific 1080i or 720p video setting it expects. (Full compatibility list <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.co.uk\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=ja&amp;u=http:\/\/www.castrade.co.jp\/&amp;ei=ToIWSumhHISsjAeclu3uDA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=result&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dhttp:\/\/www.castrade.co.jp\/home.php%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DwGn%26sa%3DX\">here<\/a>). It&#8217;ll also accept audio inputs from a few proprietary console connectors and send them out through a 3.5mm jack.<\/p>\n<p>Price and availability haven&#8217;t yet been announced, but the lack of an English language press release doesn&#8217;t inspire much hope. That&#8217;s your cue, importers. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akihabaranews.com\/en\/news-18151-Up-Scan+Video+Converter+Let+You+Play+PS3+Titles+on+a+Monitor.html\">Akihabara<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5265651\/castrade-game-box-converter-connects-upscales-consoles-to-any-monitor\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5265651\/castrade-game-box-converter-connects-upscales-consoles-to-any-monitor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expensive adapters combined with endless scaling woes can make connecting a console to your LCD monitor or project a daunting prospect. Castrade&#8217;s Game Box makes the process as painless as possible. The box will accept video input from your Wii, PS3, or pretty much anything else that uses a common video cable, and properly scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}