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Francisco · Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 305 Location: The Netherlands

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2251 Location: The Netherlands

Ok guys. Short first impressions here. I plugged in the card half an hour ago and am amazed. Decided to write a quick report here now.

It plugged in easy. It was a little difficult to get the hdmi cable in because there is not to much room but it is enough.

Now first. My old hdmi moome card had the problem that I had to start the Barco cinemax first and than start the hdmi source. If I did it in the other order the Max would get in very strange errors and the HV would shut down.

This one works as it should. A lot of led start to talk to each other and after a few second there is an image regardless of what order I start.

Than I found that the image was overly bright and I had to set brightness to 30 on a testimage. I think the default setting of the pots needs some adjustment? The contrast was to high too.

But the image? Amazing!!!! That is why I had to stop watching and write this. It is sharp. Very sharp. Real. Best I ever had. The 1080p one on one showed also the best I had (comparable to a Mac vga adapter with ultra short cable).

But again just first impressions here. After adjusting brightness and warming up I looked at some of my familiar movies and as I said looked very very good. Gave me the feeling that I have a new projector again.

Now I was going to be very honest and critical if that would be necessarily but respect to Moome this is a top card! Wonder if I can get that 3d to work.

Oh and almost forgot I did not see any trembling in the image so even the cable seems to be allright.

**kal** · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:32 pm Post subject:

Great review! I stole bits of it for the order page: http://www.curtpalme.com/BARCO-FULLHD.shtm

Kal

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2251 Location: The Netherlands

Ok the thing with the brightness was solved by choosing the right video input range.

CIR Engineering · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:10 am Post subject:

stridsvognen · Guest

Any screen shots.?

Francisco · Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 305 Location: The Netherlands

Ok what is interesting about this picture?

- don't look at sharpness banding or the funny masks

This is the 1:1 that belongs to it.

- don't look at sharpness, my camera couldn't focus very well and this was shot out of hand.

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2251 Location: The Netherlands

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6319 Location: Australia

ElTopo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1592

The order page is one click away Thumbs Up

Francisco · Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 305 Location: The Netherlands

[quote="CasetheCorvetteman"]

ElTopo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1592

Imaging what a blend will look like with this card Shocked

Could you please check 2048 x 1536@60Hz with this card ?

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2251 Location: The Netherlands

Few more simple tests. The Moome takes every resolution that I try without problems.
The streaking problem I mentioned earlier turned out to be that the 17 volt shifted somehow. Put it back to 17,7 and solved.

The one on one is better than the former Moome I had but the Barco limits the bandwidth further.

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16172 Location: West Seneca NY

Yeah work on the porch settings to get rid of the ringing on the left side but ti looks good otherwise.

Increase back porch to move ringing off the screen. Start with 50 pixel added then add another 25 and so forth.

Nashou

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6319 Location: Australia

ElTopo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1592

2048 x 1536 into each BR909 for blending would be 4K

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stridsvognen · Guest

How do the 5% IRE window look on the 909 with this new moome card.?

Is there someone who can try shoot the 1:1 closeup with different contrast settings, from black to white.?

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2251 Location: The Netherlands

[quote="Francisco"]

ElTopo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1592

Sure it is, just give 817p @72 Hz a try.

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 3:46 pm Post subject:

If you have a VP or HTPC you should always setup 818x1920p 72Hz. Why wouldn't you? It's the best of every possible world; low bandwidth, film multiple for 24Hz playback, sharper, easier on projector...

Moome's card should have no issues with any custom resolutions you want to try. If you have a Radiance 214x or a PLUS model you can probably get away with digital resolutions through about 195 MHz. If you need to run higher clocks for something like 3D (using about 192 MHz on a VP) than it's also possible to increase the voltage to Moome's HDMI chip. Moome tends to set the voltages on the low side of the range considered allowable by Si. I often raise the voltages towards Si's higher allowable range if the chip in hand can't run the clocks I want with Moome's voltage.

It's up to Moome to decide if he wants any info like that floating around though.

craigr