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A few people have inquired on this board in the past about being able to input a DVI signal into their CRT projector. For about a year now, a guy named Moome in Hong Kong has been manufacturing cards that plug directly into the electrohome Marquee, Sony, Barco, and NEC CRT projectors. The card accpets both DVI and component with a little switch on the back. This is nice because while most CRt's had a component input card as an option the Marquee's I run never did. Last night I finally had a chance to play around with the moome card at friends house and compare different signals and resolutions. I had seen the card previously but didn't mess around with it. On that occasion, upscaled 960P from an HTPC looked a little better than HDTV through DVI.
Last night we compared a Component (YbYgYr) signal direct from cable box sending 1080i to the moome card, A CS2 scaler sending DVI to Moome card, and finally and HTPC/Radeon sending up-scaled 1080P through RGB.
The clear winner was the straight, unprocessed 1080i from cable-box to the component input on the moome card. Magnificent picture, colors were excellent, overall very sharp and dynamic. Pic seemed to pop off the screen. we were watching a baseball game and I remarked it was like sitting in the club-house.
Runner up was upscaled 1080P from HTPC, Looked very good but not as sharp as HDTV/1080i. Part of this was a very flimsy (temporary) RGB cable and long cable run. The HT isn't quite finished so i'm looking forward to getting a short Bleden cable in there that can handle the full analog bandwidth of 1080P. Still, 1080P looked very much like 960P on my personal 8500, a very good pic.
The big loser here was the DVI port on the moome card, It looked terrible. Pic was very flat with no dynamic range. Also very soft and artificial looking . There wasn't an adjustment that would change this, and it pretty much confirms what others are seeing with the DVI port on this card.
Conclusion: The moome card is still an excellent vlaue for $200. simply for the option of getting component in to your Marquee or any other CRT. Unfortunately, with the impending DVI standard it will need a lot of work before it''s an acceptable solution for CRT guys to use a DVI signal. I for one will be using the card to receive HD broadcast through component and sticking with an RGB/HTPC for movies, switching between the 2 inputs on the projector itself. When the approrpiate Hd-DVD player software comes out for my HTPC I will using that and hopefully still be able to use VGA/RGB signal (if available form future video-cards)? In other words I have NO intention of dropping $500. on Blue Ray player . The whole thing reminds me of the "latest gadget" scam and i'm not about to get burned. Plus, all reports on sony BR is it's a total failure, something like 75% of buyers polled on forums are returning theirs. :E
Last night we compared a Component (YbYgYr) signal direct from cable box sending 1080i to the moome card, A CS2 scaler sending DVI to Moome card, and finally and HTPC/Radeon sending up-scaled 1080P through RGB.
The clear winner was the straight, unprocessed 1080i from cable-box to the component input on the moome card. Magnificent picture, colors were excellent, overall very sharp and dynamic. Pic seemed to pop off the screen. we were watching a baseball game and I remarked it was like sitting in the club-house.
Runner up was upscaled 1080P from HTPC, Looked very good but not as sharp as HDTV/1080i. Part of this was a very flimsy (temporary) RGB cable and long cable run. The HT isn't quite finished so i'm looking forward to getting a short Bleden cable in there that can handle the full analog bandwidth of 1080P. Still, 1080P looked very much like 960P on my personal 8500, a very good pic.
The big loser here was the DVI port on the moome card, It looked terrible. Pic was very flat with no dynamic range. Also very soft and artificial looking . There wasn't an adjustment that would change this, and it pretty much confirms what others are seeing with the DVI port on this card.
Conclusion: The moome card is still an excellent vlaue for $200. simply for the option of getting component in to your Marquee or any other CRT. Unfortunately, with the impending DVI standard it will need a lot of work before it''s an acceptable solution for CRT guys to use a DVI signal. I for one will be using the card to receive HD broadcast through component and sticking with an RGB/HTPC for movies, switching between the 2 inputs on the projector itself. When the approrpiate Hd-DVD player software comes out for my HTPC I will using that and hopefully still be able to use VGA/RGB signal (if available form future video-cards)? In other words I have NO intention of dropping $500. on Blue Ray player . The whole thing reminds me of the "latest gadget" scam and i'm not about to get burned. Plus, all reports on sony BR is it's a total failure, something like 75% of buyers polled on forums are returning theirs. :E
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