Marseille Inc. mCable Gaming Edition 3-foot HDMI

Update: I have used this on multiple television sets at this point, it's still a 5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ product. Always the same 360 console. Works best on large television sets. I'm currently using it on a 1080p 50" sharp television, with my 360 set to 720p. The in-game image is really nice with this cable, significantly better than without it. If you are familiar with PC gaming then you may be aware of SweetFX, ENB, ReShade, and so on. Back in the day I used to game on my friends pc which was more powerful than mine, and he would show off with sweetfx filters to make the games pop more. Yes it upscales and uses that extra space to add effects without sacrificing clarity; like yes there is AA happening; there is also a noticeable enhancement of line; speculatively I think i see an anti-dithering. I used this for my Xbox 360 because I am a PC gamer and my recent purchase of an RGH system was disappointing in the graphics department. For many games I have the Steam copy as well as the 360 version. Just seeing these on the 360, games like Crysis, Tomb Raider, Half Life look far inferior. I could do a side by side comparison and I thought the console resolution is a real downer, more so than the texture size. I play PC games at 1080p w/ max settings in game and 8x AA applied on top of the game settings via the nvidia control panel. With this mCable the texture resolution is more of a noticeable factor, this is the cable's fault in that now with the better display resolution I can actually see the textures better. When I saw this product and the reviews I thought it was going to be just what I needed to bring the 360 closer to what I'm used to. I would like to point out that the jaggies in Gears of War were so bad that I found that game unplayable before and now its not so bad. It's not a huge improvement, and some games seem to benefit from the methods used more than others. It would be really nice if I could edit the effects it uses, or even crank up the FXAA. At no point does it cause blurry images like you might get from too much AA (note that I personally prefer excessive AA). I'm not a competitive gamer so I would tolerate some lag if it were present, I would even embrace a frame or two of lag if it was using that for TAA type effects. It's a moot point anyway, since it is lag free. In playing Rise of the Tomb Raider and FarCry 3 it really clicked with me that there is a particular effect present that does, ever so slightly, alter the mood. For those two games in particular the PC version at very low still has significantly better textures than the 360 version, and the upscaling effects make the end result look more cartoonish. The saddest part for me right now though, is that my TV died and I'm using a cheap stand-in. The TV I'm currently using, while 1080p, is a vizio brand. I actually get a better picture on this TV without the mCable and with the console set for 720p.

The only case I found for keeping it was with my PS3, which did perform as advertised. The main reason I bought this cable was to use with my RGB modded N64 through an OSSC. Using the game shark code, I removed the first pass of antialiasing. Then I hoped upscaling from 480P --> 1080p with the cable and adding AA at the last step would result in a cleaner soft image. It did, but it also stretched the 4:3 content to 16:9 instead of integer scaling, which looks bad. I used HD Retrovision SNES component cables to the OSSC in Line Double mode. Also there was no sound. In Line 3x mode it had the correct aspect ratio, but still no audio, and the screen was peppered with graphical artifacts. It's clear the OSSC has issues with this cable or visa-versa. I would have liked to try it on an UltraHDMI modded N64 with Deblur enabled in addition to the disabled first AA pass. Sadly I'm still waiting on mine. I tried Dreamcast via D-sub 15 to the OSSC. No audio and screen was stretched to 16:9. It did look pretty amazing, if it were not for that aspect ratio. No setting I could find fixed it. The cable must do it on it's own. ***EDIT*** I discovered that the audio issue can be resolved by toggling the audio source in the OSSC menu. It seems to be caused each time the game switches from 480i and 240p, so certain games and consoles will run into issues with this combination (N64 for example). That's very annoying. I don't have this issue with a regular HDMI cable. The 16:9 stretching can be fixed by toggling the TV aspect ratio to normal, which squeezes the picture back to 4:3. However, be aware that not all TVs are flexible in this regard. My VIZIO P-series is on a power trip and stubbornly reminds me "it's already in the best mode", disabling other aspect modes (which is a stone wall slap in the face). A true upscaler like the Micomsoft XRGB mini framemeister has options to crop and scale the image displayed. So I could get around this issue by adding it to the chain. For example, N64--(Component)-->OSSC--(mCable)-->Framemeister--(HDMI)-->TV. Unfortunately, the cost of doing that is prohibitively high with the Framemeister costing over $300, the OSSC over $150, and the mCable around $100. Not to mention that the framemeister is soon to be discontinued, adds about a frame of lag, and is another thing taking up space in my AV setup (not to mention the rats nest of wires). ***EDIT*** There is no point in keeping the cable Just for movies, as there is a cinema version that is less expensive. I am not willing to keep it just for PS3/X-Box 360, which IMO look fine on a 4K TV without this cable. I was under the impression that it would upscale 1080p content to 4k, but it didn't work for me... ***EDIT*** Actually, it does. However, it only does so for 1080p 24Hz content, like movies. I watched a BluRay on my PS3 upscaled to 4K and it does look better than without the mCable. 1080p games don't upscale to 4K because they run at 60 FPS (Hz) and the mCable can't do that. For them it adds nothing to the image. It does upscale 480p/720p --> 1080p, with good, lag free, Anitaliasing. You'll need to change the settings in your PS3/X-BOX 360 to output in 720p instead of 1080p. In the PS3 at least you can change the BluRay video output separate from Games, so both 1080p for games and 4k for BluRay will be handled by the cable. The stretch to 16:9 aspect ratio may be an issue if your TV doesn't allow you to squeeze it back to 4:3, if you plan on using this cable to play SD era games. ***EDIT*** Bottom line: If you want to smooth out jagged lines on 720p era games (PS3/X-Box 360) then this will work great. If you only want to upscale BluRay to 4K for a modest bump up in picture quality, buy the cinima cable. If you own a PS3, get the Gaming edition. If you thought of pairing it with an OSSC to handle retro games, they don't play nice! You may need a frameister to solve aspect ratio issues, it your TV rudely refuses to.

This is one pricey HDMI cable but it does exactly what it claims! I purchased it mainly for the anti-aliasing capabilities and I have to say it works flawlessly for that purpose. It also boosts contrast and upscale content better than my TV can. Is it worth the price tag though? That depends on what you use it on... Essentially, the lower the resolution you pair this cable with the better it will work. I purchased the cabe for my base PS4 while thinking that if it did not make much of a difference I'd just use it on my PS3 instead. Well, I was so amazed with the results on the PS4 that I now plan on purchasing another cable for my PS3 so I don't have to share one cable. The cable literally "fixes" some games on PS4. Dead or Alive 5, Resident Evil 4-6, Nier Automata, and Dragon Age Inquisition are some of the games I have that benefitted the most. For Resident Evil 4-6 It seemed like I was playing a different game altogether... I also noticed a big boost to contrast with blue ray movies; Ghost in the Shell was very impressive piped through this cable! I have a 2012 Samsung LED backlit TV so it's pretty old by now and I can only imagine how much better this would look with an OLED TV. Some people have mentioned having isues with the USB connector and flickering images. I haven't experienced that myself as I have the USB connector plugged directly to the TV and it's working as intended.

The unit worked really well on last-gen games, and even improved streamed movies, it seemed to smooth out the artifaction that naturally occurs due to the image compression. After a year or so of use, the cable failed. It stopped passing through video entirely, not just failing to process the image, but rendering itself useless as even an HDMI cable. Verdict: Paying for improvement, but it is something you will need to buy yearly, or bi-annually. so bear that in mind when purchasing.

The marseille mCable is a unique HDMI cable that does some extra processing of the incoming image without adding any latency. These additions, which I will go into more detail about below, work nicely and have very few downsides. However, the benefit of these additions varies wildly depending on the kind of content that you give it, which will determine if this cable is worth the price to you or not. This cable really shines at cleaning up games from previous generations, with diminishing returns on newer and more powerful hardware. The mCable does several things to your image. It adds a custom kind of antialiasing to remove those jagged edges on objects, scales content up to 1080p for content that is below that resolution, boosts contrast levels somewhat, makes some tiny adjustments to color levels, and adds some sharpness. The contrast, color, and sharpness adjustments are pretty minor and can introduce some issues. I would've preferred to be able to turn those off, but there is no way to choose the effects you want on. The contrast boost created an issue with my setup where it caused come crushed black levels, which meant a loss of detail, which was fixed by setting the HDMI color space to Limited or 16-235. The most notable additions here are the antialiasing and the scaling, and they really make a big difference when both are active. The antialiasing works as a kind of smoothing filter on those rough edges you get in some games. What is interesting about the antialiasing is that it isn't applied to the entire image evenly, which would create a smeared look that would lose a lot of detail if applied that way. There is very little detail lost and some of those jagged edges get cleaned up, but it is a pretty minor improvement on its own with 1080p content. The antialiasing definitely doesn't clean up everything, but it does a good job of dealing with especially large and intrusive aliasing. The results are nowhere near the images Maresille is marketing it as, but it is a nice effect that does more good than harm. Sometimes the effect can appear to make parts of the image more "painted" or "smeared" which isn't a good thing, but the effect is minor and varies depending on game. The antialiasing works best when the scaling is applied. If the mCable is plugged into a 1080p display and the source is 480p or 720p, the cable will scale the image up to 1080p and add antialiasing to it, and those two effects combined can create a massive boost in image quality. The scaling solution used here is far superior to what the consoles can do on their own, and the antialiasing solution here really works well with the larger and more obvious aliasing that 480-720p produce. In these situations, the mCable can effectively eliminate most aliasing artifacts from these titles! The improvement here for these games is massive and well worth the cost of the cable if you really value those games. One thing to note is that since the cable only maxes out at 1080p content, it won't do any scaling for consoles already outputting at 1080p or scaling to 1080p. This means that for consoles like the Switch or Xbox 360, where games are often rendered at below 1080p and then displayed in 1080p format by the console, you get a better image with the mCable by setting those consoles to the rendering resolution of the game (720p). While it will still work if you keep the console set to 1080p, you get better results here if the cable does the scaling instead of the console. I'm going to finish this review by showing how effective this cable is on different kinds of consoles & content, with the main difference being rendering resolution of the game, which is really what you have to keep in mind when considering a purchase. The cable works well, but its additions will have far more effect on different kinds of game content, so its value will depend on what you like to play. -4K tier (PS4 Pro, Xbox One X) - Skip this cable. The mCable does zero processing of any kind on signals above 1080p. Also, these consoles are capable of high enough resolutions and more sophisticated antialiasing techniques where the mCable doesn't have much effect on cleaning up the jaggies on these machines when plugged into a 1080p display. -1080p tier (PS4, Xbox One, some Switch) - Unless you are hugely bothered by antialiasing, I would skip it here too. The antialiasing effect can produce some nice results at times, especially with really obvious aliasing, but the overall benefit is pretty minor for 1080p content. -720p tier (Switch, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U) - This is the sweet spot for the mCable's boost to image quality. The scaling and antialiasing working in tandem can provide enormous benefits to image quality. On multiple games in this tier (I tested Super Mario Odyssey and Bayonetta on Switch, MotorStorm Pacific Rift and Devil May Cry HD on PS3, and Ninja Gaiden 2 on 360), aliasing was effectively eliminated in every title, producing a much smoother look while losing next to no detail. Best results here if you change the resolution setting on you console to the rendering resolution of the game to disable console scaling, which enables the mCable to do a much better job of scaling the image to 1080p. -480i-480p tier (Wii, Xbox, PS2, GC) - The mCable will provide a nice boost to these titles, although you'll still run into aliasing because of the low source resolution of these titles. The smoothing will sort out a fair amount of aliasing and make what is left less severe, and the color/contrast changes work well with the more limited color outputs these consoles had. To get the mCable to work with these consoles, you will have to plug them into an intermediary device that accepts analog and will output in HDMI, which is an extra hurdle to getting these to work, and depending on the device you use to do so, your results may vary. -Retro tier (NES up through PS1/N64) - The source resolutions on these devices are just too low for the mCable to work nicely with. The end result you get is a bad mix of overly smooth and overly sharp, like a bad version of one of those obnoxious pixel smoothing filters that retro emulators have. Maybe you could get good results with certain pieces of great retro-focused AV equipment like the Framemeister or OSSC, but I don't have any of those to test.

First of all, I am 99% satisfied with this cable. Build quality seems very good, but (here is my -1%), the TV end of the cable is a bit heavy and i do worry about cable/connector fatigue, but we shall see. So, How does it look? The additional anti aliasing implemented by this cable will eliminate most of the shimmer in BOTW, for example. Of course, all games are affected by this fancy cable and the result is marked improvement in image quality. What else is there to say? Well, it is on the pricey side. But, if you can spend the money, and you've thought about it a bit, go for it. I've already ordered a second Marsielle Game Cable for my Sega Dreamcast :) Plug and play-ability of this cable makes it a breeze to hook up and get to enjoying the nicer image quality. Of course, once you get used to the image, you WILL want even better! ***edit*** I bought a second cable. It was faulty so it was returned to Amazon. ***edit*** Still enjoying the picture from this cable. Used exclusively with Switch, THEN... I found out that this works with my HDMI switch box. With one cable, and the box, I can switch between Dreamcast, Xbox360, and Nintendo Switch and the cable applies it's magic to each input. Five Stars! You hear that. Buy an HDMI input switch AND the mCable.

I tried this item for a few games. I don't have any pictures or anything because I don't have a capture device that would get the picture from the other side of the cable other than just taking a pic with my phone. The first thing I noticed was that it killed HDR. Apparently you need hdmi 2.0 standards to get hdr and this is only 1.4. Personally, i care more about HDR and Dolby Vision than 4K. So this was a huge negative to me. The second thing I noticed is that it didn't upscale my PS4 Slim or Xbox One S to 4K. My tv does a pretty decent job up-scaling so I decided to keep trying stuff. So what did it do for my PS4 and Xbox One S... It provided anti-aliasing and it tweaked contrast and color. The tweaked contrast and colors are similar to my tv's "micro contrast settings". Having both the cable doing that and my tv ended up making stuff look a little wonky on some games. Other games looked really good. The anti-aliasing is probably the best part. In particular Final Fantasy XV on the PS4 Slim got a lot of improvement from this. Noctis and his friends' hair in particular looked much better with the AA from the cable. Foliage looked a little better too. Other items like power lines and bridges didn't seem to get much AA. I didn't notice any lag at all. I ended up boxing it up for return today. I was hoping to get everything it claimed and maybe get a bit of a bump on quality from my Xbox One S and PS4 Slim because it's pointless to upgrade those to the X and Pro models with new generations on the horizon. I was not expecting it to kill HDR. I was expecting up-scaling and anti-aliasing. If you have a 1080p TV or a 4k TV that's a little older and doesn't support HDR this might be a good investment. I only seemed to get 1/3 of what the cable promised and I don't think it's worth the cost to me. If it was 1/3 the cost and only did AA and didn't lose HDR I'd buy it all day even without the promised up-scaling that didn't work.

Ive had this cable for 1 year and absolutely loved it...until it broke. Luckily for me Marseille has outstanding customer service and I got a replacement for my cable. All I had to do was wait 2 weeks and pay for both way shipping, which I am perfectly fine with because the value of this cable to me is beyond words. If you want more detail about my usage of this cable, I use this for my playstation 2 and occasionally my ps3 on a HDCRT and it looks better than ever, especially using another piece of hardware to upconvert my ps2 signal to 720p so my tv can register it through HDMI. Keep in mind, if you are planning to play retro consoles with this cable hoping for massive improvements, each TV is different regarding which signals they will allow through a HDMI cable. For example my LG 4k TV allows 480i but not 240, and my LG HDCRT only allows 720p & up. Even with the upconverter I am not noticing any lag. I really dont know how they do it, but this cable is magic. The only negative about this cable is the dongle is way too long and it sits really far out from the back of your tv. i hope they can figure out a way around this, maybe have the processor separate from the TV end of the HDMI by an inch of cable or something because if your HDMI port is on the underside of your monitor/tv thats sitting on a desk, it will be a really tight squeeze. All in all its a great cable and I do not regret spending so much on it, however i can only recommend it to people who are incredibly passionate about getting the best out of their picture for SD/HD gaming.

First time buying a luxury item for the switch but after watching reviews wow this cable did not disappoint only for the gamers who are willing to pay a high price be warned it is Luxury for the price makes a difference but not a massive one still worth it if you have a switch I would say since it is not yet in 4K

The item performed as described, however the ends might get a little hot

Es un poco caro pero vale la pena si te gusta la imagen, el Mcable Gaming aparte de escalar los juegos de 480p a 1080p también le da mejor contraste a la imagen y mete antialiasing a la imagen, lo compre para hacer una cadena de video para el ps3, mi configuración es ps3 + divisor hdmi + Mcable Gaming + Switch HDMI + Mclassic + Mcable Cinema + Morph 4k, con este combo consigo una calidad de imagen brutal en 4k.

Sin duda mejora la Switch, sobre todo en juegos de mundo abierto Youka lele, Doom, Mario Odyssea, lo único que me llama la atención el calor que genera el cable después de 30 min de uso, pero sin duda es mejor que en videos que había visto por la red, solo un juego se puso lento con el cable El NBA 2k Playgro.., se ve a mi marcados menos de 25 fps, pero si se cambia a cámara fija se resuelve el problema, juntar dos cables el gaming y el Ultraedition mejora mucho la cálida de imagen, ojo no soporta HDR, NI 4K a 60Fps sólo a 30 fps.

Only tried Firewall so far, but the picture looks around 20% sharper & clearer. As for 4K VR videos, they are around 30-40% sharper & clearer.