Hey,
Dave,
Since neither you nor I have seen the contract, I will not "chime in" again on this particular issue... I would guess that KeyDigital knows what they can or cannot do & have sufficient legal assistance to help them determine if they can do it or not. Even if they can't, there are countless legal ways around such a provision, such as someone else openning a company and licensing ClearMatrix & another board and reselling it back to KeyDigital. I'm not sure that such a contractual obligation can REALLY be enforced if KeyDigital were determined to produce a software based scaler.
Sorry, my whoops about CES. For some reason I saw CES and thought CEDIA... CES aint that far off, you're right - 5 months should be enough time for Phil make a serious effort. Lets see what you guys come up with!
About the technical aspects. You are starting to sound like Phil ("think out of the box", "who said anything about..."). Instead of offering critique to my statements - I would recommend you get some real info from Phil (assuming he has it). I assume he knows how he plans to drive HD into the PC. If so, revealing the basic technology should not hurt anything. A single straight answer wouldn't hurt.
Pickney,
No, we don't have HDTV. PAL on my plasma doesn't look that great, but it does look ALOT better when scaled. On a friend's 100" screen (using Sharp 9000), TV does NOT look all that horrible. I guess the Sharp has a good scaler inside.
Anyway, the whole point of scalers, these days, is to drive an ideal image down to the display's native rate. If you don't think you need a scaler, you'll get no argument from me. As James Bond said, your application and mine are completely different - there's no point in comparing or using the same hardware for such different needs.
James,
I understand, but without TV, your setup is not of use to me. Are you using silk SDI with DScaler? If your PC is basically used as a scaler? If so, why do you need a computer instead of something like the Rock (lower cost?). I mean, it sounds like you're using your computer to convert SDI to native rate (i.e., there's nothing else working short of DScaler, right?) - why would you need a remote for it? Anyway, it sounds like your application is very similar to Pickney's - i.e., virtually no TV. Obviously, that's not applicable for me - I would like to scale up my PAL sources (PVR and satellite).
How would you resolve HDTV (or do you also think that 1080i does not require deinterlacing)?