Description
Key Features
How to Use
What's Included
Genki Arcade
ShadowCast Series in the Wild
Unbelievably small, deceptively powerful
Designed to be universally compatible
Stream and record at the same time with ultra low latency in all your favorite apps
ShadowCast 2
What Our Customers Say
I went through 3 before i found this one and it works the best! easy and fast, and great quality!
Im not the use of the game.
It is used as an HDMI converter for live streaming equipment.
It is lighter and has higher image quality than conventional equipment.
The delay speed seems to be low.
I am satisfied with the image quality and formats supported.
Keep up the good work and more products please!
I really like the Genki ShadowCast 2. It comes with a nice braided cable that you plug into a USB C port to output an HDMI signal to the Mac. The app required to use this device, Genki Arcade, is a little buggy and only lets you pick 1080p 50fps instead of the 1080p 60fps I expected. That being said, it’s really good for the most part. Zelda Breath of the Wild (being played off of my Nintendo Switch) looked great at 1080p, and the colors popped. Dead by Daylight (also on the Switch) has an already noticeable delay on the Switch console’s built in display, and the ShadowCast exacerbates this issue. For the most part though, this is a great way to play console games on your laptop display, and the improvements between the first and second model are very notable.P.S. there’s also supposedly support for iPads. An 11 inch or a 12.9 inch iPad would be perfect to use with this, so definitely look into that if you’re an iPad owner.
Very compact option for capturing console gameplay and streaming through a pc to get into software like OBS. If you're playing on switch, this thing will actually fit inside the dock but it works for any console. Then instead of outputting to a tv you just go to your laptop or desktop, and load up some capture software to add your overlays, insert vtubers, etc.. whatever your process is. Another potential use case is for simply using it to play your console on the road on a laptop screen, you might not be going somewhere with a TV you have access to all the ports, such as some hotels or camp grounds, etc.. So if you bring your laptop and console of choice plus this and some chargers, you can kinda make due as if the laptop was your TV.I never had the original shadowcast, but from others online, it seems the 2 does improve some of the things people were missing. For me it's just been plug and play pretty much with pretty good quality, no issues yet.
The latency is pretty bad, be wary of reviews that say it's not noticeable or good enough, that's too vague and subjective.It certainly doesn't drop frames as much as cheaper 2.0 dongles, which is good. The latency tested on a beefy laptop is 100ms for 1080p sources recorded at 1080p. The best latency I've managed to test is 720p source recorded at 480p at 50hz, this is the sweet spot for latency, around 2 frames or 30ms.My main use cases was for it to play video realtime on Android Tablets or Oculus Quest(OLED), on those weaker devices the device performs at 6 or 7 frames of delay, no significant difference between 480p and 1080p, that's around 115ms of delay.So if you expect to use it for real time viewing of HDMI sources, make sure you are okay with such a big delay, it's excelent for turn based RPGs, unusable for Fighting games or FPS
