Yes.


I bought one of the close-out NEC 4000Q's from AV Science. With the signal quadrupling and a subtle tweaking of the sharpness and detail settings, DSS looks quite good. Last night's The Sopranos was excellent.


But wait, there's more! I was watching on my TiVo, not recorded at the highest quality setting. And here's something that is amazing me. Those who have PVR's know that in certain kinds of scenes you can easily see the square MPG compression artifacts: dissolves, fire, explosions, etc.


Since using the 4000Q on my FPTV, I haven't seen ANY of those artifacts. I can only assume that the NEC is comparing multiple frames and correcting the problem. Frankly, I couldn't believe my eyes when I first noticed this.


I'm slowly finding the ways to set the many adjustments to max out the image quality with my FPTV. For instance, tonight I discovered you need to set motion compensation to the minimum value, otherwise you get judder.


Still tweaking...


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Arrow, the Quadscan Elite is doing a great job for me. I suppose that makes sense since everyone is telling me it has the same Genesis chip as the LP350, which was also great as a deinterlacer/scaler.


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Joe

My current idea of the best value:

Boxlight 38t

Quadscan Elite

Panasonic RP91

RCA DTC-100

Da-Lite 100" 4:3 1.3gain

Studio Experience SE616's

and some other stuff.

 

Hi Les,


One reason I didn't keep the iscan pro was the very little improvemnet it gave on crappy (overly compressed MPEG) Dish material.


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Noah

 

I currently have an IScan Pro also...but it only improves on a good signal coming in.....the concept of "Garbage In / Garbage Out" definitely applies here.


I did a little survey on the "channels" on DirectTV (at least the ones I get)...here is what I found...


Channels 100-199 - Great quality. the IScan kicks ass on these channels.


Channels 200-400 - HORRIBLE MPEG2 compression. On one episode of "Married with Children", Al has a square head!! http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif It seems that Direct TV doesn't care about the "packaged" channels. I can't blame my IScan for the crap that comes out of it during the viewing of these channels.


Channels 500-590 - Fair performance. The IScan helps here.


My IScan does help dramatically during my Laserdisc viewings...so it is staying where it is. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif


Cya!

 

Mando,


Right, can't expect it to work miracles.


I'm curious if you've observed the same thing I did, on some channels (I think it was both Dish and regular TV) but not all, the color had a greenish tinge. It was hard to correct with the super touchy pot, it was just ever so slightly off the center detent, plus then the other stations would be too red.


Thanks


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Noah

 

By the way, I previously had an iScan v.1 and my experience was similar to the previous posters. If you input great material, it looked great; but it didn't do too much to help flawed video sources (though it DID help somewhat.)

 

I have owned/tried the following:


1. Internal electronics on my projector;

2. iScan Pro;

3. Quadscan Pro;

4. ATI AIW & TV Wonder;

5. Happauge WinTV-HD;

6. HiPix DTV-200;

7. dScaler; and

8. Faroudja NR.


Faroudja NR is clear winner for DSS, with HiPix a strong second and dScaler (when I can get it to work) a respectable third.


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Jamie

Boxlight 40t Projector

Da-Lite HC Da-Mat 60x80 Screen

HTPC

Hughes HIRD E-86 HDTV STB

Sony Tivo PVR

Onkyo TS-787 Receiver

Def Tech Speakers

 

NR!

 

Quote:

Originally posted by noah katz: Mando, Right, can't expect it to work miracles. I'm curious if you've observed the same thing I did, on some channels (I think it was both Dish and regular TV) but not all, the color had a greenish tinge. It was hard to correct with the super touchy pot, it was just ever so slightly off the center detent, plus then the other stations would be too red. Thanks

Noah, I don't have the "greenish" tinge you are describing. My colors come over fine. In fact, I don't even mess with the tiny knobs of the IScan Pro. I do all my adjustments via memory settings on my 10HT.


Hope this helps.


Thx

 

Mando,


Thanks, that's good to know; I may get another one to use with an LT150 and Panamorph.


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Noah

 

Like CINERAMAX said, the NR is the unit for the job.


(Unless you can afford a DVP3000 or DVP5000!)

 

I use my HiPix DTV 200 as my processor but DScaler comes a very close second with all its video adjustments and tweaks. The latest version also has video capture features still experimental but it works.


Peter