I would love to know & if so can NAIM update the firmware in the DVD5 to output interlaced via DVI.

Charlie

Hear, hear. An official answer or an update on it's progress is long overdue.

I personally have hung on for this rather than buy an external scaler and feel rather let down by Naim on this.

Hello Henry, didn't realise it was you. Well it looks like a no show from NAIM, hopefully we might get a reply during the week.

Charlie

HAVE YOU RANG NAIM AND ASKED THEM DIRECT? JUST A THOUGHT I AM SURE THEY WILL TELL YOU .REGARDS MUNCH

I have e-mailed NAIM & the answer wasn't a straight yes or no, it was more of a maybe. Even though I have a Lumagen I would still prefer a NAIM.

Charlie

Charles and all!! Sorry for the delay in replying, current status, the scaler is live!! and well, we have experienced delays because of the work we need to be forward backward compatible with all DVD5 players and current resource issues for the project, this has caused us some sleepless nights, best time guess summer 2007!

Paul - will this fit the n-Vi too ?

cheers

James

That's great, it's just a shame we have to wait so long but I imagine it'll be worth it.

Thanks, Charlie

yes this applies also to n-vi, Charles I hope I put the latest case!

Ok, so Scaler card is now looking to be Summer 2007. Good to know.

Any ideas on a port of the n-Vi bug fixes into a maintenance release for the DVD5 in the interim ?

Roy.

Charlie

The DVI-D standard for digital video transmission only allows interlaced video of 1080i @ 50/60Hz. The other formats are 480/576p, 720p. It is not possible to output 480/576i through DVI although this is available using the HDMI standard only if the source manufacturer chooses to implement this, most do not since the thought process behind HDMI was to carry High Definition content digitally ( albiet copy protected HDCP ).

I do know however, Arcam have the 480/576i enabled to allow owners who have a high end scaler to do the really tough work of video processing while taking advantage of the digital content.

I have to say after much experience of video display calibration, DVI/HDMI is not necesarrily a better connection from your source to display. It really depends on it´s implementation.

I personally prefer analogue component. The picture may not be as sharp but the depth of colour saturation, black levels and general punch from the image is so much more pleasing.

Hope that helps

Gordon

Seriously though, what is a scaler?

Its basically a device that takes a lower resolution format signal, say DVD's 720x576 PAL and re-scales it (usually via interpolation or the like) to the native resolution of a big screen, say 1300x720 pixels.

They can downscale as well as upscale and usually convert between progressive and interlaced formats

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Originally posted by garyi:
Seriously though, what is a scaler?

This should cover it. The last para is key ... a scaler board on the n-Vi will allow it to "upconvert" an external source as well as the internal DVD Video it does now. So if you only have "pikey" Sky and not Sky HD this could be useful.

Even thought the display will already scale up any lower resolution source it is sent, it is apparently a "good thing" to do this upstream in a dedicated unit. Don't ask me why.

Duncan

Thanks Gordon, I've actually got the DVD5 going to a Lumagen via scart to component (interlaced) & directly to the screen via component (progressive). Personally I prefer the component over the Lumagen.

Charlie

Sacrilige I know ....but how about popping down the shops and buying a Denon /Arcam / Marantz etc for about 1-1.2K GBP with 1080p scaler built in if you need it?

psst....I also heard they have shit hot picture quality now aswell?

regards

Yes it is sacrilege, but not such a bad idea if I wasn't already sorted.

Cheers, Charlie

P.S. I've used an ARCAM & they are good.

quote:

Originally posted by Adam Meredith:

quote:

Originally posted by garyi:
Seriously though, what is a scaler?

http://forums.naim-audio.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/3452929996/m/1902992207

A ha! That may be the "why".

Paul - Can you please share whether the scaler's upconversion will work on both the digital and analogue outputs?
Terry