The Home Theater Store finally has 2930CI’s in stock (Houston warehouse). I am supposed to have mine by 8/10 and can’t wait.

I currently have a Denon 2910 that feeds a Mitsubisih 65″, DLP RPTV (with the new 6 segment color wheel) via HDMI. 65″ is pretty big and definitely can highlight the shortcomings of the scaling and deinterlacing processes.

Overall, I have been very impressed with the current combination – nontheless, I am upgrading for two reasons.

First – On 90% of WELL MASTERED DVDs that are taken from GOOD SOURCES, my current combination looks superb – easily rivalling the HDTV channels I get from Comcast (as they are so highly compressed – Discovery HD being the notable exception).

HOWEVER, even the best disks all seem to exhibit some macro-blocking. You see it, for example, on any of the Star Wars disks in scenes that are dominated by black star-fields. Bugs the heck out of me. The Realta implementaiton in the 5910 has apparently entirely erradicated this. That alone would be enough to make the switch.

Secondly – like many newer displays, my new Mitsubishi is 1080P native – and the most the 2910 can spit out is 1080i. So I have my choice of handing off 720p and letting the sets inferior scalers kick in (I do notice a slight loss of resolution and apparent sharpness vs. the 1080i feed) OR I can give it 1080i and let the sets inferior de-interlacer kick in (I then notice some motion artifacts). It would clearly be ideal to have a single deinterlacing and a single scaling process – as opposed to multiple processes – and to do it on the best platform.

If the 2930 (with it’s Reon chip) doesn’t do it, I’ll probably cough up the extra for the 3930 as the implementation should be effectively the same as the 5910.

The Home Theater Store finally has 2930CI’s in stock (Houston warehouse). I am supposed to have mine by 8/10 and can’t wait.

I currently have a Denon 2910 that feeds a Mitsubisih 65″, DLP RPTV (with the new 6 segment color wheel) via HDMI. 65″ is pretty big and definitely can highlight the shortcomings of the scaling and deinterlacing processes.

Overall, I have been very impressed with the current combination – nontheless, I am upgrading for two reasons.

First – On 90% of WELL MASTERED DVDs that are taken from GOOD SOURCES, my current combination looks superb – easily rivalling the HDTV channels I get from Comcast (as they are so highly compressed – Discovery HD being the notable exception).

HOWEVER, even the best disks all seem to exhibit some macro-blocking. You see it, for example, on any of the Star Wars disks in scenes that are dominated by black star-fields. Bugs the heck out of me. The Realta implementaiton in the 5910 has apparently entirely erradicated this. That alone would be enough to make the switch.

Secondly – like many newer displays, my new Mitsubishi is 1080P native – and the most the 2910 can spit out is 1080i. So I have my choice of handing off 720p and letting the sets inferior scalers kick in (I do notice a slight loss of resolution and apparent sharpness vs. the 1080i feed) OR I can give it 1080i and let the sets inferior de-interlacer kick in (I then notice some motion artifacts). It would clearly be ideal to have a single deinterlacing and a single scaling process – as opposed to multiple processes – and to do it on the best platform.

If the 2930 (with it’s Reon chip) doesn’t do it, I’ll probably cough up the extra for the 3930 as the implementation should be effectively the same as the 5910.