Well that was certainly my hope and expectation when I pre-ordered the Panamorph. It just recently occurred to me to wonder whether it actually holds true.
Thanks for the link. After re-reading Mark's explanation, it still sounds very specific to fitting into the 768 line area of the panel and I whether the D-ILA scaler algorithm takes into account that 1024 lines are now in use and it only substitutes out 56 scan lines on the alternating 1/60th of a second, or if it decides it isn't worth it and simply throws away those 56 lines and redisplays the same 1024 ? And what about the 555 pixels per line that didn't make it onto the first display field ? Does it still attempt to substitute those in ?
It sure seems like it has to use a different algorithm. Hopefully it still does at least the 555 pixel substitution for each line, but sprinkling in 56 scan lines does not seem as worthwhile as when there were 312 scan lines missing. Maybe it simply throws away every 20th line from the original image ? Or worse, maybe it reverts to doing what other scalers do and throws away those 56 lines and every 4th pixel on the remaining 1024 lines as well.
It could be really bad news.
I've waited for Leno to see if I can tell by eye. It is tough, but I swear there is less horizontal detail and more comb artifacts when I switch it into 4:3 mode.
Mark, can't you tell for sure by what you've had to do in the Dilard geometry wizard ?
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Kirk Ellis
G1000 D-ILA, HTPC, Panamorph (soon I hope),
Dish 6000 (HBOHD,SHOHD,CBS,NBC,ABC,WB,FOX,UPN, KCET -- does it get any better ?)