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Just curious if it's worth buying a scaler with component in/HDMI out for my laserdiscs. I've got at least 100 titles that aren't available on DVD or bluray. If you have any information or advise on how best to do this I'd like to know. Thanks.
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Play them on the TV? Surely it'll still have composite video inputs... I'm pretty sure the chroma/luma separators in recent sets are light years beyond the ones that were built-in laserdisc players back in the '90s. As for capturing, using DScaler and a WinTV card didn't look as good as running the signal straight into my TV (720p Sony CRT). Only problem is with letterboxing... the zoom function on the TV seems to cut off a little of the sides, though perhaps no worse than with native 16:9 material on a set with overscan.
It would be interesting to pass the composite video through a DVD recorder with HDMI output. I've read that some DVD recorders have time-base correction which improves VHS material for capture, so they may do a better job converting LD material to the digital domain. With the incredibly low cost of DVD blanks, just burn one LD side per 4.7 disc.
The results I got capturing using a WinTV card didn't look good enough to warrant chucking the player and disks. However, I would like to capture the PCM soundtracks, and see if it is feasible to remux those into a Blu-ray or DVD rip of the video portion. At least for movies that lack a lossless soundtrack, or if songs have been changed from the original.
If anyone reading this has a suggestion for a really good, but affordable, capture card, please send me a PM or something. Or just reply to this, and I'll set it to notify me. I've tried a couple of WinTV (the TV/FM one, PVR250) and a Pinnacle AV/DV, and the results weren't what I'd hoped for. Maybe I'm hoping for too much from composite sources. An MPEG2 capture of Hi8 camcorder video with the PVR250 looked very good.
I occassionally play LD's from my modded Pioneer 703 into my ISF'd Poneer plasma and they look pretty crappy.
Laserdisc players have composite video outputs and some also have S-video outputs. Component video first appeared with DVD players.
Many of today's receivers can upscale the 425 lines of laserdisc to HD resolution. Obviously some are better than others, so it's best to read up on user reports of their upscaling resolutions and the quality of the upscaling.
Another option is to convert your laserdiscs to recordable DVD (I suggest Taiyo Yuden because they use the highest quality material) with a high quality hardware/software program. This way you can watch them in any DVD/Blu-ray player and, if you have a high quality DVD/Blu-ray player, you'll be able to get the benefits of its upscaler.
Hi there
I connect the LD video to the video input of a PCI tuner card in a PC, and use the DScaler program to enhance the image (e.g. smooth out the jaggies). (The PC is connected to a CRT front projector with an 80" screen and 1280x960 or 720p resolution.) Depending on the LD title, the PQ is rather soft to decent. A simple upscale (w/o DScaler) will be okay about 90% of the time, but then there will be a scene with jaggies that will ruin the PQ.
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