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Originally posted by oferlaor
J. Mike Ferrera,
It's a question of personal choice. The only display I've seen so far where the internal scaler was "good enough" not to require an outboard scaler is the Sharp 9000 (a great projector by all measures).
Pretty much everything else I've seen was close, but no cigar.
I'm quite sure that not everyone would agree with you on the merits of DRC, nor about the AVM rendering outboard scalers obsolete. |
John M,
Funny you mention that, I was fortunate enough to see a side-by-side demo between the Sharp 9000 and the Sony 11HT with one of the reviewers from Wide Screen Review who lives in Houston.
The Sharp absolutely got its butt kicked in major fashion by the newest generation of DRC in the Sony. We tried all types of reference material. The Sharp did good on the 24fps stuff but was pretty poor with everything else. Wih video originated stuff, it would often appear to bob and weave at the same time creating weird horizontal stripes etc, it was very dissappointing.
Also we stayed away from s-video and composite altogether with the Sharp. Both of which had a chroma bandwith of about 1MHz (no joke) and the s-video had a chroma delay that was off the Avia chart.
Greg Rogers was being very polite with his review.
I had no complaint about the Sony's deinterlacing it was fantastic. And since DRC now has 3:2 pull-down detection it handled films better than it used to (I'm a former 10HT owner). It is also worth noting that the Sony handles composite extremely well. If the 11HT had better contrast it would be hard to beat.
I guess the Sharp 9000E might be slightly different that the 9000 I tested in the states (NTSC vs. PAL) because I wouldn't ever feed the Sharp 9000 480i directly. I would at least go through a Iscan Pro or something.
-Mr. Wigggles
Ps. The Sharp we used was not a prototype but a production model. Now firmware has changed a few times in the last few months. So Sharp might have fixed what I consider major issues with 480i.