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napos · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 164 Location: Athens, Greece

Chris, I think the Lumagen you have will accept 1080p24, but not1080p60. You can output 1080p48 or 1080p60.
I used to have the Vision HDP. Check the manual to make sure.

Nicholas

km987654 · Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 8:43 am Post subject:

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

That's good news. But I don't know the service menu password which I will need to access the gamma correction.

napos · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 164 Location: Athens, Greece

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Currently looking for my null modem adapter. I will be checking the firmware version on the unit tonight. If I find the adapter, I'll be updating it if required.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Got the lumagen hooked up to the Marquee and it's running. The every other line test patterns show that this is indeed quite a sharp projector and it's not even my sharpest one. The vertical lines are so clear that it's obvious that it can resolve higher resolutions than 1080p with ease. I had to check to be sure it was actually outputting 1080p because the contrast between the lines is so high that I thought it might be a lower resolution I was looking at.

Can't find a DVI to HDMI cable or adapter so I ordered one. Still hoping to find that RS232 null modem somewhere, because the Lumagen's firmware is so far out of date that it won't take 1080p24 inputs.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Cable on order, Lumagen update just got done, fired up the old DVL-90 laserdisc player to give it something to process and display, while waiting for a cable to arrive for the BD player.

The DVL-90 needs a service call. It works but it's clearly not the machine it once was. Needs alignment, and likely belts, too.

napos · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 164 Location: Athens, Greece

Does your bluray player output 1080i via component? If so, try it out while you wait for the dvi-hdmi adaptor. I remember my HDP doing a really good job upscalling 1080i to 1080p48 and 1080p60.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

I'm sure one of them does. If I can find cables for it. I think I threw all my component video cables out years ago.

By the time I get around to finding some cables locally, my DVI to HDMI cable should already be here.

racerxnet · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 362 Location: Illinois

napos · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 164 Location: Athens, Greece

In the meantime you could use a couple of regular stereo rca cables to connect your bluray via component.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Small snag even in that idea: The Lumagen scaler has all BNC connectors. The sources all have RCA connectors and not BNCs.

I can't find my adapters. I definitely have (had) some. Not sure where they went off to.

So, no joy until I find them or get new ones.

**kal** · Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 11:53 pm Post subject:

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Kal

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Got the HDMI to DVI cable. Great, now I'm running into an HDCP permission issue.

I was under the impression that I had one of those HDMI splitters that deletes HDCP. Well, apparently not!

HDCP is as stupid as seatbelts on a horse.

**kal** · Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 9:52 pm Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 11:44 pm Post subject:

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Done!

Oddly enough, there actually is such a thing as seatbelts on a horse saddle. It's for certain "special needs" people who would have a hard time staying seated otherwise.

But for most people, it's useless and funny!