Mike It is funny you mention the subtitle test. For me personally, it is more important. I watch a lot of foreign films and I listen to the original soundtrack. I always have the subtitles on. In the case of that test it is US-centric. Most people I know hate subtitles and will only watch...
Mike You are the second person who has posted about changing the weights for you. When we set out to do the weighting system we were going to allow the reader to adjust the weights, but then we figured people would manipulate the weights until their player was on top. So we decided not...
Ben My RP82 is quite while in normal play mode. It does make a rather painful sound when you press chapter next and or menu. Grrrr sound. But that is only during navigation. I do understand the noise issue. I have gone to great lenghts in my main system to eliminate this, you have no idea...
Avia does not have a Bowtie test pattern. We use a bowtie pattern vs. looking at a pattern for two reasons. 1.) the YC delay pattern on Avia shows you 1 pixel differences, not fine enough resolution. 2.) When looking at the image on-screen, you are also looking at possible delay induced by...
Phuong
DVD-A is not limited to 74 minutes. Depending on the resolution, it can hold a lot more than that.
I am working on a project now where I plan to stuff 12 standard CDs worth of music onto a single DVD-A with MLP. I will include cover art as well.
I am going through my CD collection...
Here is a list of 35 DVD-A manufacturers, which include Car audio, Portable, Home, and PC DVD-A players. It just did a quick search to find these. I know of two more, but they have not announced yet. Adcom, Alpine, Arcam, Apex, Aspire, Belcanto, Creative Labs, Cyberhome, Denon, Integra, JVC...
Stephen
It is documented in Video Demystified 3rd edition by Keith Jack. The color space chapter is available on his website in pdf format.
http://www.video-demystified.com/mm/tutor/ch03.pdf
601 (Page 4 of pdf, which is page 18 in the book)
R' = Y + 1.371(Cr - 128)
G' = Y - 0.698(Cr -...
Mike
Japan used 7.5 until it was no longer needed. It is a legacy issue that has been resolved. We, for some reason, did not get rid of it for SD.
The US put black back at 0 IRE for HD because that is where it belongs. The same thing was done for 480p. Black was only at 7.5 IRE because of a...
Joe, the review back in June was done by someone else. Don and I tend to only trust each other on DVD player reviews. Actually Kris Deering has become pretty good too.