Hi

This may sound a stupid question but here goes anyway.

The basics of my system are, Marquee 9501LC, Crystalio 2 scaler, Sky HD satellite box, Toshiba HD DVD player.

All the above are connected via component cables.

Would there be an improvement in picture quality with one of Moome,s Marquee HDMI cards and would it be HDCP compatable.

Thanks

Andy

I think the PQ will remain the same ( the card does not do anything , just transcodes)
Why do you need to transcode when the crystalio does it?

Yes the card is HDCP.

You dont need the card.

Hi

Thanks for the reply, I thought that if the video was kept digital all the way to the projector there may be a benefit in quality.

Do all the people buying the card not have scalers and if they do why are they buying it.

Andy

Hell. My new scaler ONLY has a digital out and woud be useless to me and my FP CRT without some external way of transcoding HDMI to RGBHV. Nude or otherwise.

Hi

Thanks for the reply, I thought that if the video was kept digital all the way to the projector there may be a benefit in quality.

Do all the people buying the card not have scalers and if they do why are they buying it.

Andy
I think some people buy it just for the gamma control.

Do all the people buying the card not have scalers and if they do why are they buying it.
AndyI think it's cost, a good used scaler is $500. to $1K + vs. a $200. moome card. The other problem AFAIK is most scalers are HDCP compliant and won't transcode an HD DVI signal, only pass-through. Moome's old card was OK but not great, on Marquee's it crushed blacks pretty badly. The new one is supposed to be better and hopefully it ships sometime this year. :)
I don't think you will see any improvement by keeping it digital all the way vs. high quality RGB cables. AAMOF, DVI/HDMI is a garbage cable not good past 30 feet.

One would assume though that the least amount of DAC and ADC the better...

actually there would be an improvement with the Moome card, I would almost bet on it

if you are inputting analog component signals into the Crystalio, then you are going thru multiple A/D and D/A stages with the scaler processing input and output, no matter how good, they will have a effect, you are correct in your digital thinking, it would be the same to keep everything digital until the Crystalio output but with HDCP you can't output analog from a scaler as it is shut-off, that is why I love SDI so much ;)

I think you would be most pleased with the HDMI card, set the Crystalio to output 10-bit component colorspace HDMI and you will be setting pretty good, use only HDMI for input connections also

-Gary

Hi

Thanks for all the advice I was almost sure I did,nt need the card but since Gary,s reply I am not so sure.

Maybe I will just get one to try.

Andy

Andy,

Did you ever get the moome card?

I'm in exactly the same boat as you, marquee and crystalio2, it would be good to hear some feedback from someone who has actually experienced the difference.

My biggest problem is going to be getting the HDMI cable to the pj but if there's a jump in quality then I'm in. :)