HD Retrovision Premium YPbPr Component Video Cable for PlayStation 2/3 (PS2/PS3)

The media could not be loaded. I bought this cable because I had dug my old PS2 slim out of the closet to re-play Dragonquest 8. I have an old Vizio 1080p HDTV with component, s-video, composite, RGB over vga, and hdmi inputs. I've recently found that it has some issues with 240p signals over component, but I've got a ps3 outputting 1080p over hdmi that can automatically upscale and postprocess my Playstation 1 games.What I wanted out of this cable was the best possible picture for the analog 480i signal from the ps2 into into my crusty old tv without the need for an expensive digital converter/upscaler... and I got exactly what I wanted. I was playing Dragonquest 8 over a rusty old muli-console combo composite/s-video cable that dates back to when this old ps2 was plugged into a consumer crt. I was taking the s-video signal, using my TV's deinterlace, and stretching to a slightly wider aspect. It's passable. s-video is better than composite, but I can't overstate how cruddy this old combo cable is. Badly shielded composite and s-video together over a wire no thicker than the power cable of my ps2 and 4 different rusty input connectors. It's a mess. I had the sharpness setting maxed out on my display and it was still muddy with noticeable pop in for objects far from the camera.The difference with this thicc, well shielded, component cable is night and day compared to that old setup. Colors are bright and crisp. The automatic backlight adjust was actually dimming the image until I shut it off. The image is so sharp that I have to tune down the sharpness settings slighly to soften the interlacing jaggies from the wider aspect stetch. It's almost too crisp. I tested the picture with Dragonquest, and especially when flying with the Godbird Soulstone, it's just beautiful. The distance pop-in I was seeing from the noisy s-video is completely gone and I can see far away terrain slowly fade in the way it's supposed to look. Terrain and town details from above look incredibly detailed, and the tiny godbird shadow is sharp and clear over all color terrain. I was getting interlacing errors with the some of the small detailed objects like grass and fast moving objects like the bushwhacher jumping outside Tryan Gully that I cannot reproduce with the higher quality component signal. I am noticing some interlacing errors like when the ps2 logo pops on screen during the boot sequence. In a fast busy 2d pixel game like Marvel vs Capcom 2, I noticed some deinterlacing errors with some effects like Guile's sonic boom, and mild screen tear in the opening character flyby, but that all comes down to my old TV's deinterlace process.I tested the picture with Metal Gear Solid 3, Zone of the Enders 2, Soul Reaver 2, and a few others and the polygonal graphics all look amazingly crisp with no noticeable interlace errors. The opening pre-rendered FMV for Soul Reaver 2 looks amazing and the gameplay looks just as good. The fast moving particle effects and polygonal objects in the Kojima games, epecially ZOE just look awesome. I can't see any dithering or interlace artifacts at all. I did some short play tests for those, but it was really Dragonquest 8 that I played the most, and is one of the best reasons to get this cable. Unlike some of the other games I named, it has never gotten an HD port to a newer console or PC, so without an external digital upcaler this Component cable is the best it can look on real hardware... and it looks great.I am very pleased with this purchase. Even if I did use an external digital conversion, I would be very happy with this cable as an analog source. As it is, with my old 1080p vizio with legacy inputs, I am very happy with the image quality. It's not super cheap, but the image quality is totally worth the cost. I looked into buying used official, monster, and other high quality third party cables from the era, and they aren't really any cheaper. Whether you're playing on a TV with legacy inputs like me, or are looking for a high quality source signal for a digital upscaler, the HD Retrovision PS2/3 cable seems like a great choice.A reminder that this might not be a good option for your display when playing PS 1 games. Unless you have a display that is compatible with 240p over component, you're gonna be out of luck trying to play most PS1 games on your PS2. PS3's built in digital upscaling is a solid option for ps1 games though, and it probably looks better than it would through the ps2 hardware emulation and analog output which is stuck at 240p. PS3 even has texture smoothing for the 240p graphics in high resolution and an option to stretch the aspect ratio or play in 4:3.If you just want to push out a high quality analog signal from your PS2 so that your games look as good as they can, I heartily recommend this cable.

I recently purchased a Sony Playstation 2 to revisit all of the amazing games I played as a teenager. After doing some looking online, I stumbled across the HD Retrovision component cables; the reviews were excellent so I decided to order a set. I was worried about the PS2 graphics being too "outdated" running on my TV - I have a 75" Sony 4K HDTV - however, I have to say it looks absolutely amazing running off of these cables. The build quality is fantastic, and the price is a steal for what you will get. I cannot stress enough how good a console from 2001 looks running on a modern, large television. The clarity is stunning, and the games look better than they did back in the day. For comparison, I plugged my PS2 in using the standard cables that come with the console, and the picture was less defined, more blurry, and just overall did not look that great. Bottom line: if you have a modern, HDTV and want to play your Playstation 2 with the absolute best picture quality, you HAVE to get the HD Retrovision Component cables. Thank you to all the reviewers who inspired me to go this route!!I am including 2 photos, one shows what Grand Theft Auto 3 looks like, and the other is Deus Ex: The Conspiracy. And yes, this is on my 75" 4K Sony TV. Thank you HD Retrovision!

If you don’t have a set of OEM PS3 Component Video cables (which happen to work just as good) and you can’t track any down in good/new condition and want something just as high quality, look no further than these HD Retrovision cables. Outstanding shielding and build quality will result in fantastic visuals!Personally, I use my PS2 SCPH-50001 primarily to play PS1 games on a my RCA MM36100 CRT with Component to attain perfect 240p 15kHz in its amazing 700 lines of TV Resolution on a nice RGB based connection. It looks incredible.I have all my Component Video systems running through a professional ShinyBow 5664 Component Video Matrix using MediaBridge Component Video cables from the outputs (these are great quality cables too and don’t put a death grip on your ports). I will say with full certainty that the video quality of PS2 games at 480i or 480p and Gran Turismo 4 at 1080i will all look as incredible on displays that process these signals as well (my RCA MM36100 only handles 240p/480i on the Component port), but I will consider this as I review signal quality on additional displays/ports that are compatible (such as transcoded Component 480p output to VGA on my RCA MM36100 or directly connected to my Pioneer 101FD Pro Plasma display). I use HD Retrovision cables for my SNES and Genesis as well and will vouch for those too. HD Retrovision makes a great product that is well worth it! As they say - you get what you pay for (well at least usually) and that holds up here.Will edit review with pictures soon.

I didn't expect a significant difference because I was playing my PS2 on an older HD TV, but I was pleasantly surprised! When I discovered that the TV had a Component Input, I decided to use Component Cables for my PS2. This choice greatly improved the visuals, making games like Scarface, GTA 3, and The Getaway look much cleaner and more detailed. No more blurry graphics and visuals! This Retrovision cable is well worth the investment!

The product works good at my brothers house on his tv and ps2 slim but my ps2 phat model 35001 doesn’t work on any of my tv’s. The picture is pink and aqua blue. It is not the cables it is the ps2 model. I have tried two other adapter, uploaded type products and get the same results pink and aqua colored screen. One tv is a 4k one is a hdmi led tv the other is a lcd tv, another 58” 4k and the last one is an hdmi led tv also but smaller. All the same now I got a ps2 slim that works well with the same tvs. So my conclusion is the model of my ps2 doesn’t work well with this on my tvs. Maybe on another tv it might work but 5 TVs it doesn’t work. My model 35001 ps2 phat just doesn’t work with modern TVs.