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To: Carnac who wrote (31070)	3/18/1998 1:07:00 PM
From: mpegleg	Respond to of 50808

>Equator > >True, but betting your whole future on this as apposed to >building a real decoder is very courageous: it sounds much >more like a rationalization (peformance shortfall) than >anything else. Can you really say they are betting everything on this? I assume in addition to doing HDTV-to-SDTV they will also do all the usual mediaprocessor stuff. As far as performance shortfall goes - its not like anyone else's mediaprocessor can do a full HL decode anyway. Of course Philips thinks they can :) Everyone is still trying to get their hardwired HL decoders in place, much less get it to run on a mediaprocessor. >Full 720p or 1080i decode then scale to 480i looks better, >and won't cost all that much more soon enough, especially >by the time HDTV broadcasts are real. Downconversion is a generic term, the specific approach Equator implements may end up being as crappy as Hitachi's. >Why not buy a box that does full 720p/1080i and converts >the HDTV decoded pictures to interlace monitor with all them fancy >anti-flicker polyphase filters. If the cost difference is small enough, I will! >Have you seen the picture produced by these things ? Visit >the Zenith booth at NAB and take a look! Everyone is doing it differently. I've seen Hitachi's. Haven't seen Panasonic's. I'll make the rounds at NAB. >P.S. What kind of name is "mpegleg" ? What kind of name is Chromac?