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In Reply to: Here's a "positive" post from me, for a change - thoughts on the Panny S97 posted by Christine Tham on August 14, 2005 at 17:27:01:
This is actually caused by the Faroudja FL23xx chip. There is a flaw in its design that intensifies problems with MPEG2 encode/decode in the lower end of the video range (10 - 30 IRE analog output). Not every display is affected by this flaw (some show no signs of it), but digital displays seem to show the flaw more often than not.Faroudja has tweaked a few things and the latest players, while not completely cured, show the macroblocking to a much lesser extent. It is rumored that they are designing/have designed a new chip that is free of the macroblocking issue. Unfortunately, it probably won't see implementation any time soon. I believe the reason this flaw was over-looked in the design stage was due to the pressure that manufacturers put on Faroudja to develop an integrated deinterlacing/scaling chip, inexpensively and quickly, rather than having to use two separate chips to accomplish this objective.
If you don't see it, don't look for it. Once you see/notice it, you're screwed!
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- macroblocking - Joe Murphy Jr 20:48:52 08/17/05 (1)
- Re: macroblocking - Christine Tham 15:00:45 08/18/05 (0)
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