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I placed an order for XRGB2+ from Lik-Sang... Stay tuned for review!

In short: it's absolutely sweet! I had some hard time building RGB cable, because Japanese SCART pinout is wrong on both Ultimate MSX FAQ and gamesx.com. But once I built the cable, I hooked up a regular VGA monitor, and it was very clear, but too pixelated and not as brights as image on TV. But both issues are easily fixed via XRGB2+ OSD menu: pixelation is reduced by enabling scanlines at 3 out of 4 level, and brightnes / sharpnes can be tweaked as well. All in all, I'm really happy with my purchase. Mode 80 looks astonishing. You can read a whole hard cover book in this mode, and it will be really easy on your eyes

Now could someone kind please provide basic code to switch VDP from NTSC to PAL mode? I'd like to see how well XRGB2+ can handle PAL, if at all... Probably it's of interest to folks with Philips and Sony PAL computers.

In BASIC (works on MSX2, 2+ and turbo R) type:

VDP(10)=0 - 60 Hz NTSC

VDP(10)=2 - 50 Hz PAL

Heh...funny.... I deliberately put the noise over Bluemsx,since it resembles the msx screen I know better...for some reason I like the smoothing it does when u use composite video,I always had something against that supersharp view,it often tends to make stuff too squarish,it at least looks more natural...but that's my opinion.
And not just on MSX,when I look at pictures of the new tekken 5,I am at least happy to know that I won't be able to count the polygons on the tv screen...people don't have square legs or square fingers,and composite tends to blend this nicely....

Whew, thanks BodyHammeR! Now I know XRGB2+ can handle PAL 50Hz no problem. I'm getting a whole lot of various russian ZX Spectrum clones, and this is good news to me

pentagon 128 dhau?

KAY 256, TURBO 2+, ZS Scorpion 256, Kvorum 128+ and possibly Pentagon 1024 SL

I guess this means I'm going to buy an XRGB2+ as well. Anyone interested in its precdecessor, a DISPL upscan convertor? In: Japanese RGB scart, VGA. Out: VGA, stereo mini-jack. Image quality: reasonable.

Adjustable red, green and white drive + brightness control.
Power button decides whether the original VGA signal (VGA in) or the upscanned VGA signal (Japanese RGB Scart) is being passed through. Any offers? (snout@msx.org)

Dhau: could you publish the -correct- Japanese RGB scart schematics? I think the belong on the MSX FAQ

I will, but it's experimental So it works for MSX, but it might be totally wrong

dhau: could you kindly publish a close-in picture of text 80 mode that your XRGB2+ produces. I am considering buying XRGB3...

Humm... have you seen... that this thread is more than 2 years old?

No, I actually missed the date, thanks for pointing this out! I hope dhau still has his MSX and reads the forum

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In BASIC (works on MSX2, 2+ and turbo R) type: VDP(10)=0 - 60 Hz NTSC VDP(10)=2 - 50 Hz PAL

Dhau, did it work with your PAL devices?

Afaik, changing that in MSX just modifies the freq and not switches between NTSC and PAL. So doing that you will get 50Hz NTSC or 60Hz NTSC. Have you tested it with other real PAL HW?

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Humm... have you seen... that this thread is more than 2 years old?

MSX is now essentially timeless

I agree with Saeba, the basic sentences seems to affect only to the freq and not to the color system (at least in my NMS8245)