Parasound D1 - Inexplicably Awesome (1 Viewer)

[Chuck C]

http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/004341.html
pic and spec included at the site.
For the lazy:
single chip PC with Linux
-DVI !!
-PAL/NTSC progressive perfect Filmode 3:2 pulldown + PAL
-Fil-mode,Game-mode,Camera-mode
-professional Videoscaler for multiple sources
-Scaler for multiple formats SVGA to QXGA(480P,576P,720P,1080i....)
-Input-Section for FBAS-, S-Video- and even YUV-sources
you can finally scale your tuner to 720P
-4:3 on a 16:9 screen
-Digital picture shifting
-width and height of picture can be changed
-Delaytimes for progressive signals (sync)selectable
-Gamma can be changes in 256 steps
-D1 will memorize picture"tweaks" for 5000 dvd's!!!!
-MP3
-HDCD
-multichannel SACD
-multichannel DVD-Audio
-THX Ultra certification for picture and sound
-5 digital outputs for up to 24bit/192 kHz
-16 symmetric and asymmetric XLR-/Cinch-outputs for analog 7.1-sound
-two RS232 interfaces
-LCD display on front panel of D1
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[Edited last by Chuck C on September 07, 2001 at 11:32 PM]

 

[Trevor Schell]

Inexplicably Awesome is absolutely right.
I see an upgrade hitting hard in the near future.
Stunning!

That one has Steven Simon written all over it.

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Trevor..

Link Removed Sonically Enhanced
*Outdated new pictures
due to recent upgrades!
**Equipment list current
[Edited last by Trevor Schell on September 07, 2001 at 11:15 PM]

 

[John Morris]

Beautiful... but it's gonna cost around $4-5K? In that ballpark is the MC-12 and a bunch of others which are also very nice.
Man I wish I was wealthy...

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merc
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[Chuck C]

I'm bumpin this one ^^^
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[Jay Mitchosky]

This was announced some time ago. There is a lower end model being released as well (D2?) that does not have the LCD and a few other things.
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[Steven Simon]

Trevor,
Yeah OK!!!!
Latest upgrade was yesterday... I installed the HD dish and HD Decoder!!!! I'm dialed in with High Def!!!
Pic is Jaw dropping!!!
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[Espen Braathen]

With the D1 basically being a computer with a DVD-ROM drive I wonder how they are going to handle SACD playback (which they claim will be incorporated)?
As far as I know no DVD-ROM drive can read or process the various pit modulted watermarks, thus they might encounter serious problems configuring the unit for SACD...
Espen