This past week I've been enjoying the best pictures ever from my G20 - thanks to the arrival of a HD set top box. Here in Australia we have only just started down the digital TV road and currently there is very little material shown HD.
The DGTEC set top box however brought with it a surprise which could be of interest to others. It upconverts everything (even standard SD material) to either 1080i or 1152i. I run it in 1152i (double 576i PAL) as our HD format is different enough to mean this gives me a wider picture (too long to get into here) on the DILA which has a 'US-style' 1080i preset. This means I can leave the G20 in 1080i and the picture is incredible! I can only put this down to the fact that the box is not having to interpolate (just double) and the G20 is doing the fantastic 1080i to progressive conversion we all know about. My standard PAL material has never looked so good - I have to say I have never seen an scaler do a better job (had been using DScaler on HTPC).
My question is related to this 1152i mode and also 576p. The G20 has optional User presets, two of which are factory configured to 1035i_Y and 1035i_R as discussed in another post. IS there any way to configure these? Mark has indicated DILARD may support it in the future - lets hope so. I need a 576p mode for progressive DVD player output.
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Mark Harwood
[email protected]
The DGTEC set top box however brought with it a surprise which could be of interest to others. It upconverts everything (even standard SD material) to either 1080i or 1152i. I run it in 1152i (double 576i PAL) as our HD format is different enough to mean this gives me a wider picture (too long to get into here) on the DILA which has a 'US-style' 1080i preset. This means I can leave the G20 in 1080i and the picture is incredible! I can only put this down to the fact that the box is not having to interpolate (just double) and the G20 is doing the fantastic 1080i to progressive conversion we all know about. My standard PAL material has never looked so good - I have to say I have never seen an scaler do a better job (had been using DScaler on HTPC).
My question is related to this 1152i mode and also 576p. The G20 has optional User presets, two of which are factory configured to 1035i_Y and 1035i_R as discussed in another post. IS there any way to configure these? Mark has indicated DILARD may support it in the future - lets hope so. I need a 576p mode for progressive DVD player output.
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Mark Harwood
[email protected]