I think that Katsu's HDMI MOD is fake

[Epixjava]

Here's what it comes down to. If Katsu's HDMI mod is fake, it dosnt realy matter. We know the vita can do video out.
Why don't we try to just do it ourselves instead of asking him to tell us how
He may never tell us how! I understand his reason for not releasing a how to, but be honest, there are always going to be people who try to make a buck. Thats just how it goes. Its a pain but whatever. If anything katsu should get the money for this amazing accomplishment, honestly I wouldn't mind paying 5 bucks for a PDF on how to do it. That just a thought, but it would be worth it to me! Most of us are on here cause we love to mod, and its that fact alone that pushes us forward even when Sony patches up what we have done. If Katsu dosnt release a how to, someone will eventually. Lets just stop questioning its legitimacy and go out and make it for ourselves.

as a side note, come on katsu please spill the beans. As much as I would like to do this myself, I would rather have an expert write up a guide then me bricking several Ps vitas trying to do it myself. But if I must do it myself, I must.

Epixjava

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[psgarsenal]

some people say that psvita-tv has the same motherboard as the classic psvita, maybe we could see where the hdmi pins are connected?

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[Epixjava]

some people say that psvita-tv has the same motherboard as the classic psvita, maybe we could see where the hdmi pins are connected?

yah I was thinking the same thing. Its not the pins that we need to worry about. The real battle is converting the video out signal. Man now I wish I had a vita tv so I can get an idea on how it works ;P

[tinostar91]

some people say that psvita-tv has the same motherboard as the classic psvita, maybe we could see where the hdmi pins are connected?

Motherboard might be the same but at least dev kit which has HDMI out has additional board for that

//It also raises more doubts about katsus' mod if Sony engineers had to use another board instead of an easy solution in form of small difference on current one, but it also might be upscaler to 1080p from Vita native resolution

[DS_Marine]

hmm why scale to 1080p? scale to 720p.
Also 960x544 with black borders to fill 1280x720 would do...

[tinostar91]

It was just an example, point is that because it's devkit you want to have real image, not modified by TVs' mostly *** upscalers at all what would actually be the case after just making your console being able to output HDMI.

[yifanlu]

some people say that psvita-tv has the same motherboard as the classic psvita, maybe we could see where the hdmi pins are connected?

Who said that? Because it's false. The motherboards are very different.

[Acid_Snake]

That, and I've seen the code for enough open source projects to know that people cannot cooperate together on a project anonymously without creating code that resembles ground beef with a bug for every ounce of fat.

Then sorry to break it down to ya kid but you've never touched any serious project then or with serious people. Learning how to properly handle concurrent project development is just one chapter of one class on second year engineering, it's that simple and very important.

terrible driver and library support and having 8 completely different versions of Linux crash on me for absolutely no reason was enough incentive for me to not want to go near Linux again.

I don't wanna judge cause each scenario is different, but I'm assuming you not knowing how to handle linux is the main cause of the distros crashing on you. The classic laziness and dumbness of not needing to touch the system that windows creates on "advanced" users.

Let's get back on topic and stop talking about Linux...

you aint the boss of me

[Infinite Chalupas]

That, and I've seen the code for enough open source projects to know that people cannot cooperate together on a project anonymously without creating code that resembles ground beef with a bug for every ounce of fat.

Then sorry to break it down to ya kid but you've never touched any serious project then or with serious people. Learning how to properly handle concurrent project development is just one chapter of one class on second year engineering, it's that simple and very important.

I've done custom builds of GCC, libz/mpc/mpfr/gmp/newlib/png/jpeg/ogg/vorbis/gif/ungif/, firefox/chrome/, and many many other things. All of these are poorly structured, poory written, poorly configured, full of bugs and unsafe techniques (the list goes on). I tip my hat for the fact that open source projects can sometimes be decent references for learning, but they are generally inferior to commercial products in every way. This coming from a person who uses only freeware products.

terrible driver and library support and having 8 completely different versions of Linux crash on me for absolutely no reason was enough incentive for me to not want to go near Linux again.

I don't wanna judge cause each scenario is different, but I'm assuming you not knowing how to handle linux is the main cause of the distros crashing on you. The classic laziness and dumbness of not needing to touch the system that windows creates on "advanced" users.

I know how to use Linux, that was never the issue. The problems I had were drivers failing (eg. applications would flicker, flash objects would crash, 3D applications could barely pull 10fps, audio pops, etc.). System updates caused 3 out of 8 of those to crash (no fault of my own there), many of the programs I tried to install depended on packages that could not be found with the Software Center or Yast, so I had to manually hunt them down only to find that there was often no support for that library on the operating system at all. Which would be one thing if it was something like an obscure file format handler, but no, it was for common things like MPEG audio, Flash, and Java.

Furthermore, I should not have to type a password every single time I want to run a program or install something. I already logged in, so leave me the f*** alone. If I don't want people installing stuff on my pc, I'll log out when I walk away from my computer. I also shouldn't have to hunt down the superuser terminal every time I need to copy a file from one partition to another, there shouldn't need to be over a thousand directories on my computer with 3 letter names as it's confusing to navigate, filenames should be case insensitive, there should be a file filter so I don't have to manually open the properties of applications to make them executable, and shortcuts should be soft-links, not hard-links, so I can delete them without deleting the original directory or having to go to the terminal.

I can go on all day about all the problems with Linux, but I'll stop there.

[psgarsenal]

some people say that psvita-tv has the same motherboard as the classic psvita, maybe we could see where the hdmi pins are connected?

Who said that? Because it's false. The motherboards are very different.

Can't remember who, but it was said some time ago...