SDI -- DVI What is the state

I have also been looking at upgrading my kit but wonder with a lot of support for DVI including TAG and most Plasma / TV manufacturers will this not give better results as no intermeadiary box would be required such as a scaler?

Anyone seen such a setup? I have seen reports of the Electrograph and it got good reviews.

Dave

 

IIRC, the proposed TAG DVI interface is derived from an analogue stream within the player, therefore not purely digital from disc right the way through to display device. I believe its forbidden by the "DVD Forum" to have a pure, unencripted digital output on a DVD player and no encription scheme has yet been agreed. TAG only 'get away with it' because of the anlogue origins of the DVI signal. And who said the DVI output will be scaled ?

I think the only way right now to get a 'proper' digital video output from a DVD player is via a 3rd party SDI mod.

Allan

 

Gordon, what is best way to feed a plasma such as the Panasonics with to achieve optimum picture quality. Would a hcpc gives better results than a stand alone dvd player...and if so..would use recomend using vga out from the pc?
best regards
Tony Davies