Tuesday, October 30, 2007

I bought a scaler!

True, I'm using more and more HD these days, but nevertheless, there is only so much FLI2300 that one boy can take. And, there's a lot of material that will be in standard definition forever - any game form the Wii and previous consoles, and a lot of old TV shows. So, buying a dedicated video processor to get the most out of them and sidestep the processing issues that exist in my own HDTV and DVD player was always something I'd planned to do (since 2005, in fact).

Drum roll please...

You see, the Optoma/Themescene HD3000 here has been heavily discounted on these British shores lately, despite apparently featuring a highly competent implementation of the Gennum VXP processing chip. It's missing some options, most notably custom output resolution (not a problem for me since my 1920x1080p TV is one of the allowed pre-sets), but at £650, this thing is apparently a steal. I keep saying apparently, because mine hasn't arrived yet, but I definitely trust the opinions of the people who pushed me over the edge on this occasion. But here's what you get:

• 3 HDMI inputs
• 2 Component inputs
• 2 RGBHV BNC inputs, capable of Component in, RGBHV (Computer RGB) in, and RGB SCART in, with adapter
• 2 Composite Video in
• 2 S-Video in
• Front-mounted Composite, S-Video and VGA (RGBHV) in
• 1 HDMI output
• "Studio grade" (their term) deinterlacing of 480i, 576i, and 1080i with the Gennum VXP solution

Expect full video scrutiny when it turns up. If all goes well then I can finally say goodbye to jaggy-riffic in-TV processing.

Adam B
October 30, 2007 5:41 PM

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