Originally posted by: Karyudo
I kinda figured, "In for a penny, in for a pound," and got myself a Pioneer CLD-D925 -- the best PAL-spec player Pioneer ever made. That's the one I got. Although it's true that it was Pioneer's flagship model in their last range of laserdisc players, some people say that the older model CLD-2950 which it replaced had a slightly better picture quality (but fewer features). It's all subjective though.
Did you find, as I did, that turning the HQ circuit on actually makes the output picture worse? Certainly not as sharp.
Originally posted by: Karyudo
Also, maybe you'll know definitively: does PAL need IVTC? No, I know it doesn't need 3:2 pulldown reversal, but PAL is still interlaced on telecining, so I wonder if it would benefit from some Telecide() work -- without Decimate -- to get rid of 2:2 pulldown?
As I understand it, you should use telecide on the capture to combine the fields back into progressive frames before any processing. Don't know what effect this has on the filtering but it will help with the encoding if the source is progressive. I kinda figured, "In for a penny, in for a pound," and got myself a Pioneer CLD-D925 -- the best PAL-spec player Pioneer ever made. That's the one I got. Although it's true that it was Pioneer's flagship model in their last range of laserdisc players, some people say that the older model CLD-2950 which it replaced had a slightly better picture quality (but fewer features). It's all subjective though.
Did you find, as I did, that turning the HQ circuit on actually makes the output picture worse? Certainly not as sharp.
Originally posted by: Karyudo
Also, maybe you'll know definitively: does PAL need IVTC? No, I know it doesn't need 3:2 pulldown reversal, but PAL is still interlaced on telecining, so I wonder if it would benefit from some Telecide() work -- without Decimate -- to get rid of 2:2 pulldown?