Originally posted by DBono In response to vch's post: The green bar problems in 480p and 720p that the Dell 3100MP had appear to be fixed in the 3200MP. Dell tech support definitely needs to have their clue-bag refilled. In past dealings with them, though, I've found that it's highly dependent on who you get on the phone. Calling them in the morning (US time) increases the chance of tallking to someone who has a clue and in general, calling back (even right away) will net you a different tech who may be better (or......) |
Originally posted by DBono In response to Bob William's post re: pixelworks and faroudja chips: I'm assuming the X1 uses a PW-1xx (166 maybe?) for the graphics engine/scaler and the faroudja for the hardware de-interlacing. Can you share what video decoder it uses? A 3200MP teardown revealed the PW-166-20TK graphics engine AND a pixelworks PW-1230 hardware de-interlacer. The PW web site has the datasheet, features, etc for the 1230, but the feature list is similar to the faroudja chip. It definitely has motion adaptivity and 3:2 pulldown. I just wanted to make this clarification because it's common to say "pixelworks de-interlacing" and what that really means is that the system is using the SOFTWARE de-interlacing capabilities of the PW graphics engine (in this case the PW-166), which is really just another scalar function. Frankly, this is a stretch of the term "de-interlacer". In the case of the 3200MP, "pixelworks de-interlacing" means an actual hardware de-interlacing processor, separate from the graphics engine. |
Originally posted by HerbH Dbono-- This chip stuff gets a little confusing. I need some help filling in the blanks: 1) The X1 and the 3200MP use a similar (perhaps the same) pixelworks graphics engine/scaler. So the performance in the ________? area will be the same for both machines. 2) The X1 and the 3200MP both use a hardware de-interlacing chip. The capabilities of both chips seem similar. So can we say that their de-interlacing performance will be about the same? 3) The video decoder (is this hardware or software or ?) for both machines is unknown. The video performance of the X1 is stated by most to be very good. Anything you can tell us about the video performance/processing of the 3200MP? Any conclusions (or strong hunches) that you could help us draw, would be appreciated. Thanks |
Originally posted by shinoSetsuna briggsbw, thx to you so much for your reply, everything that you posted really excited me about this unit, but the throw distance really has me worried... i only have 14' to play w/, so i might be out of the running already on this point. but yes, any screenshots you could provide would be greatly appreciated, many others will be very curious to hear about your impression between this unit and the X1, thx again to you friend..! |