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Awaaz
PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2003 2:36 pm 
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I just replaced my 5 year old projector cos the bulb finally blew! to replace the bulb, it was £400 so I thought forget it just buy a new projector altogether..........have just ordered the panasonic 300. This baby has 800 lumens (compared to my old 60 lumens!), true 16:9 ratio chip set and loads of other stuff...........it's arriving tonight, so will hook it up with my brand new component ixos cables that I just got at lunch time (£65 quid!) man these costs mount up................

Might aswell get a progressive dvd player too......any suggestions on what is good? the Harman Kardon dvd25 is multiregion in the UK and is getting good reviews..........but i think it doesnt do progressive for both pal & ntsc (or some limitation like that).

any recomds on a progressive player?
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ali
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2003 2:43 pm 
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Awaaz wrote:
Might aswell get a progressive dvd player too......any suggestions on what is good? the Harman Kardon dvd25 is multiregion in the UK and is getting good reviews..........but i think it doesnt do progressive for both pal & ntsc (or some limitation like that).

any recomds on a progressive player?

Both the Harman Kardon DVD2550 and DVD25 do progressive scan on both NTSC and PAL. Check the powerbuys forums out on thedvdforums.com

.. they are offers on both these DVD players at the moment.

Ali
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Zoran009
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Philips 963Sa and denon 2900 also, do pal/ntsc prog
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rana
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For properly encoded Film DVDs, PC based Power DVD is the best (and cheapest as well).

Rana
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Awaaz
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thanks guys for the suggestions, took a look at that powerball off and it is very tempting but waiting for 8/9 other people could take ageeeeees!

rana yaar, whats the deal with dvd from PC interms of sound?
picture fine it will link directly from PC to projector via the port, but getting dts sound outta the pc into the amp, how?
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Zoran009
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Yaar!! bottom line, ISS LEEAY APUN KUCH NAHIN BOLA!

Jitna GUD Dalo UTNA MEETHA...No GUD, POWER DVD /FREE BEE will do..BRAVO RANA!
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rana
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Well, Freebie Power DVD software or minimal additional cost bought software. Actually, nothing is free. After all the PC hardware costs hundreds of dollars. But, we all have it already. The additional cost is minimal. Whatever hardware/ software we buy for a PC, costs peanuts compared to what consumer DVD player manufacturers charge for adding same capability into a consumer DVD player.

I'm not sure of DTS decoder, but I think Power DVD has that capability as well. Even if not, a DTS decoding hardware/ software/ firmware can be added at a minimal cast. After decoding audio, main expense is amplifiers and speakers.

Another advantage of a PC based DVD playing is that you can have an all digital process, from disc reading to displaying without any intermediate analog conversion.

Cost difference between Progressive converters is as per how much problematic encodings they can handle. 95% of Hollywood DVDs are properly done and any cheap line doubler will do. It's the remaining 5% of Hollywood DVDs and 95% of Indian DVDs where more expensive Progressive converters are usefull. Again, advanced Progressive converters differ in tricks and ideas on how to handle a problematic encoding. They charge very little for simple tricks and tens of thousands of dollars for their useful proprietiery tricks, until someone breaks their code and copies it.

Ganti can explain further.

Rana



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