Hi,
I was doing some testing with an LT150 and a Malata 996 DVD player with some PAL DVD's, which were all anamorphic widescreen. We were trying to get PAL progressive output and still retain aspect ratio control.
We set the Malata to output component, PAL, and be in Progessive mode, and hooked to the LT150 via the requisite VGA-5BNC cable, and told the LT150 it was receiving component on the VGA connector. However, it would not sync to that signal. If we put the Malata in interlaced mode, it would display PAL anamorphic correctly.
Then we told the Malata to output RGsB progressive PAL and told the LT150 it was receiving RGB on the RGB input, and then the projector synced to the signal fine. But then when in RGB mode, it doesn't seem like there is a way to control the aspect ratio such that anamorphic PAL DVD's display correctly. However, we were able to scale down the Y-axis with the Malata to get the picture looking right.
Just as an aside, we also told the Malata to transcode the PAL to NTSC, then to output it progressively. Interestingly enough, this looked amazingly good, much better than native PAL in interlaced mode to the LT150. I think the Malata must be the most versatile DVD player I have ever seen.
Anyway, does anyone know the correct way to get the LT150 to display PAL Progessive and still show anamorphic in the right aspect ratio? Preferably w/o needing an outboard scaler or HTPC.
Thanks for any info.
Scott
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Scott Barnhart
[email protected]
I was doing some testing with an LT150 and a Malata 996 DVD player with some PAL DVD's, which were all anamorphic widescreen. We were trying to get PAL progressive output and still retain aspect ratio control.
We set the Malata to output component, PAL, and be in Progessive mode, and hooked to the LT150 via the requisite VGA-5BNC cable, and told the LT150 it was receiving component on the VGA connector. However, it would not sync to that signal. If we put the Malata in interlaced mode, it would display PAL anamorphic correctly.
Then we told the Malata to output RGsB progressive PAL and told the LT150 it was receiving RGB on the RGB input, and then the projector synced to the signal fine. But then when in RGB mode, it doesn't seem like there is a way to control the aspect ratio such that anamorphic PAL DVD's display correctly. However, we were able to scale down the Y-axis with the Malata to get the picture looking right.
Just as an aside, we also told the Malata to transcode the PAL to NTSC, then to output it progressively. Interestingly enough, this looked amazingly good, much better than native PAL in interlaced mode to the LT150. I think the Malata must be the most versatile DVD player I have ever seen.
Anyway, does anyone know the correct way to get the LT150 to display PAL Progessive and still show anamorphic in the right aspect ratio? Preferably w/o needing an outboard scaler or HTPC.
Thanks for any info.
Scott
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Scott Barnhart
[email protected]