Newsgroup: it.hobby.home-cinema
Titolo: dvd progressive

A quando il primo DVD con uscita progressiva???
Con affetto
		Tuo Ciccioformaggio


A poco meno di 2000$ (listino) puoi gia' comprare in US il Toshiba SD9100
che e' dotato di uscita component progressive.
Naturalmente lo street price e' molto inferiore, ad esempio da DVD City
http://www.dvdcity.com/
  lo trovi a soli 1499$ con 5 film in omaggio.
Per ulteriori dettagli vedi:
http://www.toshiba.com/tacp/dvd.html
Ciao.
    Rino


Un'altra bella bestia e' il PRINCETON PVD-5000 che dovrebbe essere
disponibile entro la fine di Gennaio e si preannuncia come uno dei migliori
DVD player in commercio.
Tra l'altro e' quello che ha il miglior set di outputs (compresa un'uscita
VGA !).
PRINCETON ANNOUNCES Multi Line Rate PROGRESSIVE DVD PLAYER
PRICING AND SHIPPING DATES
DVD/CD Provides 480p, 720p or 960p User-selectable output options
CES - LAS VEGAS, NV. (January 6, 2000) - Princeton Graphic Systems, a
leading manufacturer of award winning HDTV and computer displays, announced
shipping and pricing for the PVD-5000 Progressive DVD/CD Player. The new
player delivers HDTV-quality, progressive digitally scaled images that
create the highest level of DVD playback for home theater applications. The
player provides viewers an unprecedented degree of control over picture
quality from viewer-selectable resolutions of native 480p, upconverted 720p
or 960p and variable frame rates of up to 120 per second. Higher frame rates
produce significantly less judder and produce images vastly superior to
standard progressive DVD players with a fixed 60Hz frame rate. The PVD-5000
is ideally suited for use with multi-scan front projectors and direct-view
HD monitors. The overall experience is a balanced synergy of high-end audio
performance and unprecedented picture integrity that creates a resounding
theater-like experience. The PVD-5000's suggested list price has been set at
$5,499.00 with first shipments scheduled for Q2 /2000.
"With the PVD-5000 Progressive DVD Player, Princeton provides HDTV-quality
content, available now to consumers in standard DVD format, to take full
advantage of their investments in big screen projectors and monitors," said
William Wang, president and chief executive officer of Princeton Graphics.
The PVD-5000 displays a full progressive non-interlaced video signal.
Current DVD 480i (interlaced) playback is based upon the NTSC TV system
devised in the 1930's. It "paints" the lines of a frame in two separate
passes. Half of the lines are drawn in the first pass (the even lines) and
the other half (the odd lines) are drawn in the second pass. Progressive
scanning paints all of the lines of a frame in one pass from top to bottom
and transmits full 525 horizontal lines (480 of which are displayed) in the
same amount of time. With double to quadruple the number of lines, the
PVD-5000 offers a much higher picture resolution and eliminates motion
artifacts. None of the interlaced side effects, such as flickering, are
present with progressive scanning. And as image display size increases, so
does the appearance of these anomalies.
The PVD-5000 utilizes true color reproduction and is artifact-free with a
full 10-bit process to provide viewers with HDTV-quality picture. The
PVD-5000 is compatible with DVD discs transferred in 480i (NTSC) and 480p,
single or dual-layer discs in single or double-sided formats and features
user selectable output of 480p, 720p or 960p vertical resolution and 720, or
oversampled 1440 or 2160 horizontal resolution. Viewers can select frame
speeds at 60, 72, 96 or 120 Hz for film sources. PVD-5000 also features an
auto-detect and auto-switch film/video mode.
The PVD-5000 has double buffered precision video outputs on true 75-ohm BNC
connectors. Output is selectable between YPbPr, RGBHV and RGB with composite
sync formats. Careful attention to impedance design detail and the use of
true 75-ohm BNC connectors assures a minimum of impedance mismatch anomalies
resulting in signal degradation, reduced picture quality and poor VSWR. A
15-pin HD VGA output is also provided for RGBHV output.
Complementing the player's video performance, audio features include CD
compatibility and the ability to play 24bit/96 kHz Digital Audio Discs
(DADs) from both analog and digital outputs. Audio outputs include left and
right analog on balanced AES/EBU (XLR) or single-ended via RCA connectors.
Digital bitstream for external audio processors is provided via balanced
AES/EBU (XLR) or coaxial S/PDIF via BNC, RCA or optical. The PVD-5000 will
pass PCM, Dolby DigitalT (AC-3) and dtsT source material. Dual 24-bit, 96
kHz DACs (digital analog converters) provide audiophile-grade performance.
The PVD-5000 also features an easy to use on-screen display, a 240 x 64 dot
matrix LCD backlit front panel display and an IR remote control. For
operation with an external system controller, an RS-232C serial
communications port is provided.
For more information, please call 
800-747-6249
 or visit them on the Web at
www.princetongraphics.com
Ciao.
    Rino


Il vero street price per l'SD9100 di Toshiba e' di circa $1000 ($975 da
dynadirect.com
). Attenzione: non esce 96Khz dalla digitale ma downsampla a
48Khz. Si parla gia' di un SD9200......
Poi c'e' l'SD5109 sempre progressive che costa circa $550 e e' anche HDCD e
ha il doppio cassetto DVD...
auguri
Carlo

 VGA !).
In effetti per utilizzare il progressive scan al momento attuale l'uscita 
VGA mi sembra la migliore alternativa - per un collegamento a un monitor 
o a un videoproiettore per PC. Sbaglio?
Nicola Salmoria

 o a un videoproiettore per PC. Sbaglio?
No, ho visto qualche videoproiettore che accetta il progressive scan su
ingressi component, ma non mi ricordo assolutamente quale fosse.
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Davide Granzotto