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tomgilmartin
Joined: 15 Jul 2006
Posts: 41
Location: Buffalo NY area
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: Faroudja ramblings and Gamma control |
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So yesterday I was watching a DVD (Animusic 2):
PS3 HDMI 720P -> HDFury -> Faroudja NR Plus - 2 outputs
The Faroudja has 2 VGA outputs. One is HD-15 VGA connector which I had connected to a normal 19" NEC CRT monitor. The other output is 5-BNC which I had connected to my NEC XG135.
Here's the question:
On the small monitor, the background shadow detail was INCREDIBLE!
On the big projector, not so good...
The Faroudja is supposed to just pass the HD signal through according to the manual. The picture on the small monitor screams "Gamma Boost", it looks like the boosted images I see on this site. I don't have any gamma boost that I know of on any device I have. If the small monitor shows the detail is must be there in the signal, so why doesn't it show up on the big projector? Why are these 2 images so different, and will gamma boost help the big projector look more like the small monitor? I never tried gamma before...now I'm intrigued.
Tom
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 5320
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: |
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OT: CAn someone phonetically spell out Faroudja for me.
I have only read about it and haven't been around other geeks to say it out loud.
I say it like this...
Fair - ow - ja. Is this even close??
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perisoft
Joined: 29 Aug 2007
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Location: Ithaca, NY
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:02 am Post subject: |
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I always kinda thought it was 'fuh-ROO-juh'. But I don't travel in circles where people actually speak that name. It costs too much just to say it.
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tomgilmartin
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Location: Buffalo NY area
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| perisoft wrote: | | I always kinda thought it was 'fuh-ROO-juh'. But I don't travel in circles where people actually speak that name. It costs too much just to say it. |
You guys will hate me for this, but the guy I bought the projector from GAVE me the Faroudja unit. Said he had no use for it any more without the projector.
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AnalogRocks
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Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Well one man's trash...
Hey Tom, what part of Vermont are you from?
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tomgilmartin
Joined: 15 Jul 2006
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Location: Buffalo NY area
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I was living in Rutland for 10 years, but my employer moved HQ to Cincinatti so I decided to return to my hometown of Buffalo, NY. I bough Dennis's XG135 unit which I picked up in Toronto one Saturday last March during an outrageous snowstorm.
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