Guys!

With the arrival and installation of our new Stewart Luxus Deluxe screen of 107" width, we are now positioned to show the DVX edge blend system, by appointment, to interested visitors here in Phoenix; so do e.mail or call if interested. Here is a peek of what you will be seeing; HDTV and DVD sources across two Marquee 9500s, each 'half' of the image is scaled to 1024p and the screen is illuminated to near 500 ANSI lumens.

One visitor last week was John Gannon, who spent an afternoon viewing a variety of materiel on our temporary canvas test screen and supplied these comments:

"At the very least, you can forward that I think this was among the finest video I've ever seen...it was obvious the projectors were singing easily at their most comfortable state......the image simply blew me away and made me want one.

I've wanted very few of the setups that I've witnessed...this one has
the greatest promise of any..... "

Wow, it looks as if you took a picture of an aquarium.

A deleted scene from U571........naaah!

Wow! Finding Nemo is so clear it almost looks real.

More real than you know; that was a freeze frame from Discovery Channel.....

I only wish I could play with something like that and have room enough to do it right.

Some day, that'll be done in software.




CJ

Guys!

One of the side benefits (or side-by-side benefits) of this system is the very short throw ratio of 0.95 to 1.2 depending on the projector versions being used; the largest possible CRT image in the smallest amount of space!

I guess I left off the smiley.

Yeah, edge blend systems do have one short throw, which is nice. I guess this is a different edge blending than the previous system you had? What was that one, fulsom?

Mike

This processor is from Europe; Folsom announced a product four years ago to be called "DisplayProHD", had it on their website with pictures, list $15K, and never built even one; we demoed using two of their other units cross-connected and it did make a nice picture, now we have practical actual hardware which I am using every day here :-)

Tim,

Just so I know which lottery tickets I need to buy, how many zeroes are in the price for just the blender? Also, I understand that it serves as a scaler and switcher as well. Can you elaborate on these functions?

Brian

The processor switches and transcodes up to eight inputs including SDI, HD-SDI, DVI, composite, S, component, and RGB in 3, 4 or 5-wire modes up to 1600 x 1200. The pair of exotic scalers then render a left segment of about 60 percent of the overall image width for the left projector and also a right 60 percent segment; the segments are overlapped with soft luminance rolloff in the center to create one seamless 16 x 9 image. Screen widths to 111" have been tested with two Marquee 9500s with stunning results. We expect image widths to 130" should work with CRTs, larger perhaps with a pair of 4 x 3 DLPs, not yet tested. The processor lists for $17K. Our demo system here is fed a Dish Network HDTV tuner, and an HTPC for DVD playback with awesome results. Each CRT need only display 1280 x 1024 so one can start out with 8" projectors with some savings, and move up to 9"ers later on.

:P I would question the sanity of the person with a $17K processor and a pair of exotic scalers and only 8" crt's... :P

Why? I can understand both beliefs. If one is going to spend $17k, then they might as well go all out. On the other hand, one may only have a budget of say $20k to $25k. In this case, brand new tubed 8" LCs would fit the bill. Since you should be able to do 1600x1200 on an 8", there should not be a problem getting 1920 x1080. According to tse, almost all of VDC customers use a blender.

One cool thing about this machine is uniformity should be better.

Ericglo

Not that I am really in the position to drop that change now anyway, but what about HDMI?

Sanity is not an option! We are talking about the finest projected 100"-130" image possible from CRT or any other display technology; the skeptics are welcome, by appointment, to visit and see......

Tim,

How is the Blendzilla viewing schedule for the afternoon of Feb 27? if open please pencil me in for a time after 2pm.

Pete

Pete

That should be super, give a yell lunchtime at 480 368 7434.

That will work-

The flight gets in at 11:30 .
So I should be to Dollar Rental by noonish.

I am quite sure that viewing this Godzilla/Blendzilla would be utterly convincing.
In extreme cases the incidence of bank robberies might increase.
"If its good enough for Gannon, its.........."

Pete,
Scott showed me a picture a helicopter flight simulators in Alabama. Wouldn't you be able to see them, since you are close by and work for the military?

Ericglo

E-

Most of those are down in Ft Rucker.
But I have seen/used the flight simulators for the H-60 and H-53.

Tim - The schedule is getting all set - I will stop by your place - then off to the models house.. Tuesday is a desert sunset shoot.

You know whats more impressive?
Nice macintosh amps you have there Tim~!

Blends and bikinis. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, huh Pete?

I'm sorry....is my jealousy showing?

going out to buy my lotto ticket now

Well Guys!

We are anticipating the visits of more distinguished individuals in February, Mike Parker to name one. Also a long-time friend from Meechigan is due here on Saturday, an engineer from WXYZ TV who hopefully will provide us with his commentary after seeing BlendZilla in action, so stay tuned!

Tim,

If you want to use our D-5 deck and tapes let me know. It has HDSDI out 720P 1080I.

Tim As Assembled An Imaging System That Is Truly Remarkable! The Terms "big Screen" Or "wide Screen" Do Not Do Justice To His Blendzilla System. This Is "huge Screen". Both Hd & Sd Looked Incredible. Didn't Want To Leave.

Tim,

I'll bet a D-5 master would look great on your blendzilla system. I wish I could auditition a feature film playing on our Sony 5500 HDCAM SR deck. Remember--when it comes to pristine pictures, MPEG4 SP rules!
Regards,
Rich

Guys!

None other than Draganm is in town this week and slated for a visit tomorrow afternoon, hopefully he will have some commentary for us........