alphabetty spaghetti said:
Aleks im very interesred in your LD player , is everything crammed into the old laserdisc shell or is everything in seperates now ? . Can i see some pics of everything ?. Good luck with this, i think its an amazing thing your doing to this ld player . How do you know so much about laserdisc , did you work with them before ?
I got some more parts on the way so pictures will come. To answer a little of your question; After disassembling many players (mostly Panasonic and Denon before i got the Sony Japan players, C2ex and Mdp 999) and reading tech on Laserdisc i know abit more now.
Im trying to focus on one thing at a time. For a few days now i have been looking at capture cards, Ati was interesting because of their 12bit Adc's (analog to digital converters) But real performance is what counts.
Ati was never full into video capturing gear, Pinnacle however has for a long time. I have found a PCTV Rave (on the way here) with the Fusion 878 chipset, it is based on the reference design but better pcb parts (accurate crystal, more capacitors etc). Also its been seen time and time again, the source has alot to do with the end result. Here are some images from the PCTV 878 (The first is from cable (tuner), the second is Dvd input as composite.. not mine. The 3rd is post processed outdoor antenna, the 4th is an ATi card with the same chip (!):
http://www.aussievideosearch.com/images/resize/Huff-768-768.jpg
http://richardberg.net/bin/vidcap/archive/DVD%20-%20composite%20-%20Pinnacle%20PCTV%20Pro%20[BT878]%20(Alan,%20UK)%20-%204.jpg
http://richardberg.net/bin/vidcap/archive/postprocessed/Outdoor%20antenna%20-%20Pinnacle%20PCTV%20Rave%20(Narler,%20AUS)%20-%201.jpg
http://richardberg.net/bin/vidcap/archive/Analog%20Cable%20-%20ATI%20TV%20Wonder%20VE%20[BT878]%20(Djinn,%20USA)%20-%206.jpg
One of the board members has offered to lend me his PDI Deluxe european version (Sweetspot) to see if we can spot any differences. Because truth be told when i spent so much time and money on the gear i dont want to get second rate results when the analog video is turned digital.
Im pleased to say that the Runco is going to be the most modified 3D comb filter Video processors ever :) Reclocked 3D y/c board, its own 3.3v supply etc etc, i will post pictures when its done. Then its on to make the last mods on the player before capturing.