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post #151 of 175
8/1/06 at 2:00am
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Originally Posted by Carled View Post

When you're looking for the last 5% of performance you start looking in the more obscure places. If you're just after the main 95%, you don't need to.

You may find though, that searching for the extra 5% is heaps of fun even if nothing else.

You mean heaps of $$ instead of fun don't you , Who of you dares to tell 'friends' they use a dvd-chain thats over 5k without being called a weirdo.

Daniel.

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post #152 of 175
8/1/06 at 2:09am
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Originally Posted by danielo View Post

You mean heaps of $$ instead of fun don't you , Who of you dares to tell 'friends' they use a dvd-chain thats over 5k without being called a weirdo.

I've bought my Philips 963 used from Ebay and installed the PixelMagic SDI mod myself. This was overall noticably cheaper compared to buying a top of the line DVD player.
post #153 of 175
8/1/06 at 2:15am
Madshi - had you soldered before? I keep wodering about doing it myself but the last time I soldered anything was about 20 years ago.
post #154 of 175
8/1/06 at 3:06am
It was my first soldering job ever. However, I had asked my dad to do it before (he is learned electrician) and he didn't want to do it. He said he was afraid of destroying the DVD player, because the soldering points were too small. I think it's not easy to do, but possible, if you have calm hands.
post #155 of 175
8/1/06 at 3:10am
I guess it depends on the price I get the 693 for
post #156 of 175
8/1/06 at 4:55am
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Originally Posted by danielo View Post

You mean heaps of $$ instead of fun don't you , Who of you dares to tell 'friends' they use a dvd-chain thats over 5k without being called a weirdo.

Daniel.

Come on; who doesn't think sanding down the sides of one's DVD collection and colouring them in with a green magic marker, and paying $500+ for the tools to do it, is a great idea? That's right, no one!

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Originally Posted by madshi View Post

I've bought my Philips 963 used from Ebay and installed the PixelMagic SDI mod myself. This was overall noticably cheaper compared to buying a top of the line DVD player.

You soldered it yourself? You mean onto the ribbon cable bridge for the deinterlacer board? My god.

I failed miserably when I tried to do mine.
post #157 of 175
8/1/06 at 5:26am
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Originally Posted by Carled View Post

You soldered it yourself? You mean onto the ribbon cable bridge for the deinterlacer board? My god.

I failed miserably when I tried to do mine.

Yep, I did that successfully myself, as my first soldering job ever.

It doesn't look very nice/professional - but it works just beautifully.
post #158 of 175
8/1/06 at 9:52am
Way to go Madshi!!!
post #159 of 175
8/1/06 at 10:06am
post #160 of 175
8/1/06 at 10:14am
What the heck is That???
post #161 of 175
8/1/06 at 10:30am
(That's me being tickled by my girl friend...)
post #162 of 175
8/1/06 at 10:47am
TMI, TMI, TMI....................
post #163 of 175
8/1/06 at 4:08pm
I noticed a discussion in this thread related to mediatek's mpeg decoder. I am not familiar with mediatek. I found out a mediatek video processor is the internal processor on a LCD I am looking at. I know about genesis, realta, and pixelworks but have not heard of mediatek. I am assuming that the media tek video processing capabilities is far below the premium chips mentioned above. Does anyone have experince with mediatek who could shed some light for me. I am curious about deinterlacing(bob vs weave), diagonal filtering, and noise reduction.

Thanks for the info.
post #164 of 175
8/1/06 at 5:00pm
Check out www.hometheaterhifi.com . Do a search for that. I think there are some nice reviews, etc of products with the Mediatek. Also check the DVD Benchmark.
post #165 of 175
8/1/06 at 8:00pm
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Originally Posted by rgldhl View Post

I noticed a discussion in this thread related to mediatek's mpeg decoder. I am not familiar with mediatek. I found out a mediatek video processor is the internal processor on a LCD I am looking at. I know about genesis, realta, and pixelworks but have not heard of mediatek. I am assuming that the media tek video processing capabilities is far below the premium chips mentioned above. Does anyone have experince with mediatek who could shed some light for me. I am curious about deinterlacing(bob vs weave), diagonal filtering, and noise reduction.

Thanks for the info.

We've been talking about the Mediatek MT1389 series, used for its primary purpose of MPEG decoding. The chip does indeed have a deinterlacer (and scaler?) built in, but it's not on the same level as the Realta, VXP, ABT, National AVC2510, Faroudja 23x0, SiI504, and so forth. As far as imbedded deinterlacers in SoC processors go, it's one of the better ones, but you can still do much better if you're willing to pay for it.
post #166 of 175
8/1/06 at 9:47pm
Interesting. Thanks for the info. Is there a website that provides detial on what internal precessors are in what sets/manafactures/models?
post #167 of 175
8/1/06 at 11:54pm
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Originally Posted by rgldhl View Post

Interesting. Thanks for the info. Is there a website that provides detial on what internal precessors are in what sets/manafactures/models?

None complete or recent enought to be of any value, I'm afraid.
post #168 of 175
1/19/07 at 10:08am
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Originally Posted by Gary Murrell View Post

not true, the fact that HDCP has been added to HDMI would give SDI the upper hand in a purity stand point

Don't worry Gary, Targus is notorious from taking book theory and creating firm assertions from it, having never looked at the results first hand. How many SDI mods have you performed? Right. Good enough for me.

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also the fact the no players with mpeg decoders as good as the Panasonics have HDMI output, so SDI is better than HDMI in every way because of the quality of mpeg decoders in the units we are comparing

-Gary

But see that's experience talking, so it's over his head...
post #169 of 175
1/19/07 at 10:16am
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Originally Posted by Targus View Post

A "blanket" statement, with very little basis in reality....like most of the other posts by the SDI experts in this thread.

You really need to offer something other than insults directed at people with real-world experience to gain traction. Because, right now, you're the engineer-troll that lives under the bridge.
post #170 of 175
1/19/07 at 10:27am
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Because, right now, you're the engineer-troll that lives under the bridge.

You're responding to a post I made in July of last year...and you're calling me a troll?

What did you bring to this thread?

You're obviously angry that you've had your ass handed to you in other threads.

Get over it, and stop trolling.
post #171 of 175
1/19/07 at 10:40am
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Originally Posted by danielo View Post

Who of you dares to tell 'friends' they use a dvd-chain thats over 5k without being called a weirdo.

Only if asked.
post #172 of 175
1/19/07 at 10:54am
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Originally Posted by Targus View Post

You're responding to a post I made in July of last year...and you're calling me a troll?

Does that mean you didn't say it? Is there a statute of limitations?

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What did you bring to this thread?

I'd rather become more educated and observe instead of bringing constant arrogant negativity to every discussion I participate in, which is your MO.

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You're obviously angry that you've had your ass handed to you in other threads.

Get over it, and stop trolling.

There's no link you can provide that substantiates that claim, although I'm sure it helps your self-esteem in some odd way.
post #173 of 175
1/19/07 at 10:56am
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I'd rather become more educated and observe instead of bringing constant arrogant negativity to every discussion I participate in,

Then why do you act like an arrogant troll?

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There's no link you can provide that substantiates that claim

There's a link under your name, that will provide much entertainment for anyone who clicks on it.
post #174 of 175
1/20/07 at 6:21pm
An SDI modded RP-82 into a Lumagen HDQ is a wonderful thing.
To those who think that 480i HDMI has the same PQ as SDI are ....well...just wrong.
Simple as that
post #175 of 175
1/20/07 at 11:40pm
shame on you guys!

Closing this thread.
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