Scaler for Viera 37pe50 ?

[drphibes]

Hi

Not that clued up about the technical aspects of a scaler other than you can resize the image and also the scaler process's the picture being sent to it.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that there was no benefit from adding a scaler to any of the Viera plasma screens but not sure if this is correct.
I do not have a massive budget and would probably be interested in spening approx £300 on one of the DVDO products that I have seen selling in the members market.

My setup at the moment is below

Panasonic 37pe50
Toshiba 9500e dvd
Topfield 5800 pvr
Xbox 360

Any advice would be welcome

Thanks

Drphibes

[Ultima]

I used to have a DVDO HD+ that I sold and replaced with a Lumagen DVI. For your budget if you could pick up either they would do a very good job. I would go with the Lumagen DVI if I had to choose again.

Martin

[drphibes]

Thanks for your thoughts.
I think the Lumagen scalers are going to be beyond my budget to be honest so the DVD0 HD+ might be ok.
My Veira only has component inputs so would that rule out the Lumagen DVI anyway ? im presuming that the DVI in its title means that is the way it gets connected to the screen ?.

Any other people out there with a similar setup to me ?

Drphibes

[gizlaroc]

The PE50 is really limited to what it will take over YUV and there is no way of pixel mapping. You would see far better gains selling the PE50 and getting a PHD8, around the same cost too.

[drphibes]

Hi

Yes this seems to fall in line with posts I have read before regarding the matching a scaler up with the 37pe50.
To be honest I am well pleased with the screen at the moment so do not really fancy outing it at a loss.

Thanks

Drphibes

[gizlaroc]

I undertsand that, but spending money on a scaler that you can't use to scale is a waste. For the same money I would look at maybe swapping over for a PHD6 if one crops up. Get one for around £1000 and sell yours for around £700, far more improvement there than spending £500 on a scaler.

[drphibes]

Sorry I meant to say that for the time being I will stick with the 37pe50 and not buy any scaler due to the points you make.
When I do get around to buying my next plasma I will make sure it would benefit from a scaler if I managed to add one to my setup.

Thanks

Drphibes

[gizlaroc]

No problem mate, that is what this forum is for, to make you spend money!

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Just want to add the the Vision DVI from Lumagen has a DVI-I output....that means it has analogue output as well as digital....and the analogue output can be component YPrPb or any flavour of RGB you want....

Gordon

[darkmavis]

is the Vision DVI better than a Zinwell Brite-View Pro BLS-3000

[hornydragon]

Also like to add that the Luamgen DVi and DVDO HD+ are very similar in price around £800 and think both would be better than the Zinwell