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Originally Posted by sims
First of all, my capture solution costed me 300 hundred dollars. The most expensive standalone capture card you can find according to newegg is this, which is merely 149 dollars. I highly doubt you have one of this, and seeing as how you use Dscaler I'm assuming you have a card with the Conexant chipset. |
Expensive doesn't mean better. I have a cheap Conexant card and it looks better than yours. Have you seen Industrian's shots? They look waaayyyyy better than yours and he has a not so expensive card. He is using component, did you try with it?
Dscaler works with Radeon All in wonders. Ohh and btw, the All in Wonders are not known for their high VIVO Quality.
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Software wise, I'm using ATI's very own Multimedia Center. Now I must admit, this software can be a resource hog, especially when using the PVR feature, but so far from my experience of playing around with all the capture sources, the PS2 source is the worst. I have capture TV signals, DVD outputs, handycam inputs, and by far PS2 gives the least desirable quality. Why?
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The image you get it's not card related, mostly anyway. It will depend heavily on the Decoder Software and the ones included with the cards are the worst you can use. What Dscaler does is Upscale the image and in a very good way, apply filters, take out the shimmering, take out most of the aliasing and give better contrast and more sharpness than on tv. The default graphics look horrible even with dscaler without a proper config.
Properly configured it looks way better than on my Sony Wega. That's what Kaneda meant.
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Originally Posted by sims
Like I said, the source resolution on the PS2 is not that high to begin with. For comparison, the max resolution of over-the-air analog TV signal is 720x480.........it's pretty damn hard telling what is what from all the alias, smear effect, shimmering going on
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More resolution doesn't mean there will be less shimering and smear effect but i guess that's what you think from that post above. It depends on the contrast and the textures being used, plus the mount of polygons.
All of the Ps2 faults you see are resolution related and that's not the case. Have you tried a xbox with the same config and the same Ati multimedia software? It will look almost the same as the image you get with the Ps2.
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the max resolution of over-the-air analog TV signal is 720x480
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The standard tv resolution it's up to 640x480. Dvds are the ones that have more resolution. Hdtv is the one that exceeds that standard.
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Originally Posted by sims
In conclusion, you might want to do a little research before making a claim which you can't support.
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Indeed
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Originally Posted by sims
Afterall picture quality is all subjective to the observer. Maybe you might be used to low resolution stuff considering you use your capture card for playing Playstation2, but I've seen all the capture sources and only base my conclusion from their results.
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Really, you should try Dscaler with a proper config. Do you need one? It works with All in wonders too, not just Conexant chips.
Last edited by Kazuya Mishima; August 6th, 2006 at 09:53.