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The Proceed Video Processor (PVP) manual is now online and available here.
This is a two card upgrade – an input card and an output card. You must remove the existing 480i component output card to use the PVP. The output card uses the DVDO chip to produce the 480p output. The input card selects an external 480i Component, S-Video, Composite, (or SCART) signal and transforms it into a digital component signal before it routes it to the progressive card to be output as a 480p signal. Proceed has really simplified the operation of the card if you have an AVP in addition to the PMDT but it also works without the AVP.
Perhaps the neatest thing is the card has a unique way to deal with the progressive lock issue of some TV’s. There is circuitry to "preshrink" a 4x3 signal so that when the TV expands it it looks normal. The solution sounds quite clever. It works seamlessly with DVD’s and can be switched in or out when using the input card. I wonder how long it will be before other DVD mfgr’s follow suit with the clever Proceed solution to this problem.
The Software to use the PVP is apparently available for both the PMDT and the AVP. In fact the AVP software finally includes the 96/24 code.
Todd told me the price of the PVP will be $1500 and it is starting to ship. I hope Stacey and the rest of the Secrets crew get to look at this setup….
Geof
This is a two card upgrade – an input card and an output card. You must remove the existing 480i component output card to use the PVP. The output card uses the DVDO chip to produce the 480p output. The input card selects an external 480i Component, S-Video, Composite, (or SCART) signal and transforms it into a digital component signal before it routes it to the progressive card to be output as a 480p signal. Proceed has really simplified the operation of the card if you have an AVP in addition to the PMDT but it also works without the AVP.
Perhaps the neatest thing is the card has a unique way to deal with the progressive lock issue of some TV’s. There is circuitry to "preshrink" a 4x3 signal so that when the TV expands it it looks normal. The solution sounds quite clever. It works seamlessly with DVD’s and can be switched in or out when using the input card. I wonder how long it will be before other DVD mfgr’s follow suit with the clever Proceed solution to this problem.
The Software to use the PVP is apparently available for both the PMDT and the AVP. In fact the AVP software finally includes the 96/24 code.
Todd told me the price of the PVP will be $1500 and it is starting to ship. I hope Stacey and the rest of the Secrets crew get to look at this setup….
Geof
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