Progressive scan...

Posted by Torbjorn Jansson [IP: 195.84.133.98] on December 29, 1998 at 05:12:06:

I've found the following options of progressive scan XGA-output capable PC-DVD solutions...
(I'm considering adding a PC-DVD, to..at least in theory...improve quality over my Sony S7000 connected to a Sony VPL-X600 projector (XGA-res)).

First I considered the RealMagic Hollywood+ Decoder-card, but as it uses analog overlay I'm doubtful it'l do much better than the state-of the art stand-alone players.

3DFusion (based on Mpact2) looked promising but with only 18bits color depth. Im not going after this option..

Creative's Encore (seems to get very bad reviews on output-quality to the PC-monitor...it's also using analog loopthrough to my understanding.

I found LSILogic on the net (www.lsilogic.com) and it's VMI20 (uses VMI & VIP to connect to the graphic-card) and PCI20 looked to be really good stuff...But who OEM's these is there drivers available?
Anyone of you guys know?

Cinemaster98 also looks good on paper...
But is it really good in practice? Has anyone made a head to head comparison with the Hollywood+ card???
Another problem with the Cinemaster is of course that I haven't seen a region-mod for it...

Another option is RealMagic Ventura..
On sigmadesigns site it says "integrated video scalar with linear X-Y scaling is required"..So my thinking that maybe togehter with a Riva TNT card it could be a good option..but it's mere speculation...

Anyway...Do you have any optinions on all this?

Is there really any good progressive scan graph-cards+decoder, or decoder-only solutions???

Have anyone been trough or is sharing my problem??

cheers,
/TJ

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• Progressive scan... - Scott 05:27:33 01/25/99 (0)

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