I suggest posting this over in that big huge 963sa thread.
The only thing I can think of is that maybe the deinterlacer is not tweaked for optimal performance w/ PAL-progressive. Afterall, it's not an officially supported feature. OTOH, I've been following most every thread about the 963sa and have yet to read about combing problems whether 480p or 576p output.
Ok. I vaguely remembered about 2-2 pulldown being a problem for the Faroudja fli2200 chip, so I doublechecked at the Secret's Shootout. And I was right. Follow this link for the test that checks 2-2 pulldown, which is needed for progressive output of PAL sources:
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...20Film%20Flags
If you check the Shootout for ALL the Faroudja based players, they ALL fail this test. I suspect this is why you see combing although I would've thought the DCDi algorithm would take care of that, except in fast moving/panning scenes.
FYI, the Philips 963sa uses the newer Faroudja fli23xx chip, and I guess 2-2 pulldown still has not been addressed yet. Odd, but I would've expected more comments about this since quite a few owners are using this player for PAL-prog output.
_Man_
PS: FYI, I also found this under the "Part 5 - Progressive Scan DVD" section of the big Shootout article under the subsection "Genesis/Sage/Faroudja vs. Silicon Image" to further confirm the above:
Quote:
We've done extensive testing on the 2-2 pulldown performance of the two chips, and it's clear that the Silicon Image is much better at detecting 2-2 pulldown and staying in film mode with 2-2 material. In its default configuration, the Genesis doesn't have 2-2 pulldown enabled at all for NTSC, though it is enabled when it's in PAL mode. Even in PAL mode, the FLI2200 doesn't do quite as good a job at properly detecting 2-2 progressive. On the flip side, though, the Silicon Image combs more often on video material, because it more often incorrectly identifies video as 2-2 progressive. This just serves to highlight how difficult it is to always 'do the right thing' in deinterlacing. |
Sounds like if you want PAL-prog for PAL sources, you should favor a player w/ SI deinterlacing, instead of Faroudja.