Hi. I posted this one as a part of my reply in another thread, but I thought my question is valid enough that I should post it as a new thread and open it to get a more broader feedback.
Please keep in mind that the LS110/Cinema 12SF pj and Panasonic RP-56 DVD player BOTH have the Faroudja chip built in.
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Please keep in mind that the LS110/Cinema 12SF pj and Panasonic RP-56 DVD player BOTH have the Faroudja chip built in.
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Now, let me throw something at you that I've been pondering for awhile. The Marantz DLP has 27(!) Faroudja chips working inside it that deinterlaces the picture and gives it that "smooth, velvety consistency." I'm wondering if both the Faroudja's in the 12SF AND the Panny RP-56 are working SIMULTANEOUSLY just like the Marantz to give that nice picture I was talking about above (when I keep the progressive mode "on" in the DVD player). Because I know whatever signal you feed into the 12SF, it will automatically be deinterlaced. So....if you run the DVD player in interlaced mode, the pj's Faroudja is doing the deinterlacing (dim, muddy picture if brightness/contrast is not tweaked on the Panny). But if you run the Panny itself in "progressive" mode (bright, clear, crisp picture), does that mean both the DVD player AND the pj is working to deinterlace the picture?!?! I have NO idea. All I know is the picture looks FANTASTIC! I just thought it would be working the same way as the Marantz in this case. --> Consequently, when I was shopping for a progressive DVD player, I performed a shootout between the Panasonic RP-56 vs. Sony N7000 (?). Guess what?! Both gave the exact same picture results as mentioned above when I ran comparisons between progressive and interlaced modes with the 12SF projector. Something's going on here that I really don't have the full grasp of. |