Kenny Glasgow
Prominent Member
This month's HCC has Cinemateq, Crystalio, IScan and Lumagen on test
malcky said:anyone tested any of these scales, i have the chance of buying the iscan hd+ for 520.00 and would like opinions. thanks
Nope! Just been in WHS at Waterloo and they have the April edition on the shelves but no review of scalers in the index. According to Gordon it should be on the shelves this coming Thursday then, but perhaps I should ignore it - just in case!lscolman said:Hi Kenny,
Is it in the shops now?
Cheers, Lee
Having just bought an HDP and had Gordon calibrate it I'm definitely not going to be reading it.MarkE19 said:but perhaps I should ignore it - just in case!
Kenny Glasgow said:This month's HCC has Cinemateq, Crystalio, IScan and Lumagen on test
Gordon @ Convergent AV said:boo hooo....how come other folk have seen the review and I haven't and I'm one of the bloody distributors.....
Gordon
Yeah they broke the SDI unit they were given and all that was available at the time was a baby Optimizer. An absolute shame as I would've like to see a no holds barred Cinemateq V iScan review. Mind you, they only had a pre-release HD+ because the final revision wasn't yet available when they started the review. Thinking about it the Lumagen would've been on older (almost BETA) firmware too, and really old if the reviewer hadn't been updating regularly. And presumably the Crystalio would've been a pre-HDCP unit as well. So it's almost a battle of the BETAskpr@cinemateq said:Please note, that the HCC reviewed as a matter of fact only the "small" picture optimizer (our entry solution) instead of the "big" picture optimizer plus II, appointed in the headline and shown on the pictures. What a mistake.
Which means it's pretty useless as an aid to potential purchasers and provides deniability to all manufacturers concerned if theirs isn't shown in a good light.Liam @ Prog AV said:So it's almost a battle of the BETAs
Not wishing to re-hash old arguments but it was a comment just like that back in Decemeber IIRC that initally put me off the Lumagen and leaning towards the iScan .. since I bought one and had Gordon set it up clearly I'm now a believer.Liam @ Prog AV said:- the Lumagen requires pro-setup, but the others don't? - by the looks of it he needed pro setup on the lot!