I have a PDP-503MXE, but I have never been totally satisfied with the quality. When using the video inputs there is quite a lot of solarisation/banding.
I have therefore installed a HCPC to drive it via the DVI input. This gives fantastic colours with no visible solarisation, but it does introduce quite lot of other problems.
Depending on the source I get tearing and judder in different ways. I have tried different settings for the vertical frame rate. I believe, that between 68Hz and 73.4Hz it is running at native rate, but I am of course not 100% sure. Right now I am running it at 70Hz, but there is still some judder, e.g. when using D-Scaler. With my digital satellite receiver board it looks very bad, e.g. when watching football, because movements are far from smooth.
I have read some favourable comments about the Lumagen scalers used with the new 50MXE-1. Would I be able to get results close to this combination or do I have to replace the plasma with the MXE-1 (or perhaps even go back to a regular TV, e.g. the TX30PD36)?
Has anyone tried a Lumagen HDP with the 503MXE via the DVI? Any views on this combination compared to the HDP and MXE-1?
Jens
I have therefore installed a HCPC to drive it via the DVI input. This gives fantastic colours with no visible solarisation, but it does introduce quite lot of other problems.
Depending on the source I get tearing and judder in different ways. I have tried different settings for the vertical frame rate. I believe, that between 68Hz and 73.4Hz it is running at native rate, but I am of course not 100% sure. Right now I am running it at 70Hz, but there is still some judder, e.g. when using D-Scaler. With my digital satellite receiver board it looks very bad, e.g. when watching football, because movements are far from smooth.
I have read some favourable comments about the Lumagen scalers used with the new 50MXE-1. Would I be able to get results close to this combination or do I have to replace the plasma with the MXE-1 (or perhaps even go back to a regular TV, e.g. the TX30PD36)?
Has anyone tried a Lumagen HDP with the 503MXE via the DVI? Any views on this combination compared to the HDP and MXE-1?
Jens