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Instead, 629TBC and 3DYC/3DNR are toggled by two unlighted rectangular buttons hidden behind the front input door.Unfortunately, the picture quality of this unit seriously sucks, IMO, but that's a story for another thread. It uses the lighted button on the right for some other function. As you can see in the auction link, it uses the same exterior as the HS-HD2000U but in gold (brass?) rather than silver.

The actual auction price was only 2200 yen = <$22 US, and the middleman fees are fair, but overseas shipping just keeps getting so much worse, my god. The HD2000U is actually missing detail, due to the forced DNR. It may appear that the DH5U is missing collar detail, but a similarly extreme sharpening reveals that nothing has been blurred. Along the right of his hair, and a small line extending from the right of his cup. The same dark 'trails' in a more normal scene. Dark 'trails' to the right of the text. The worst of dot crawl, and the other artifact is the most pronounced of all of them!īright-ish generated text on dark-ish background The 1970 actually handles this the best of the three. It's also found along strong color transitions elsewhere in the movie. There is another artifact along the edge of the bottom-middle light. + Somehow mitigating much of the dot crawl. Sharpened graininess becomes even more obvious in darkness. Ever-present grid/checkerboard artifact is easiest to see in darkness. Undersaturated in dark scenes, generally. I'm leaning toward this being baked-in or otherwise unavoidable. The 1980 and DH5U still show a low-level bright haloing around the text. + For all the downsides of the chroma DNR, one of its upsides is that it can virtually eliminate rainbowing at times. When not in EDIT mode, a vertical blur or 'downward smear' is added, even though the Noise Filter is set to off. Separate 1970 image to show why EDIT is the best setting. Separate HD2000U image above to show sharpening deformations and halos when Play PerfecTape is set to Sharp. Those little faces are just as lacking in features no matter how much edge enhancement is added. The DHE10 also adds sharpening halos, which should become more obvious in the other shots below.Īgain, the sharpening does nothing for actual detail. None of the text that is unreadable with the DH5U becomes any more readable. The sharpening of the 1970, DS555, and S525U just adds halos and emphasizes noise. Causes general blur.Įxtreme wide shot with lots of little details and text Spatial luma & chroma DNR is always active: no option to disable. In playback, I can't see this here but during high motion in dark scenes, it is noticeable and distracting. The undefeatable (spatio)temporal chroma DNR causes an after-image of his hand's position from the previous frame(s). Spatiotemporal luma DNR is always active, even though DNR&TBC is set to 'off'. The chroma issue will become more obvious in later screenshots. I will be using EDIT for the rest of the DS555 shots, as CAC looks useless.Īpparently the 1980 that I bought is in need of repair.

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EDIT mode disables the Picture control, outputting an image that looks the same as level 3 plus a small levels/hue shift and minus Chroma Aperture Compensation (CAC 'eliminates color blurring and expands Chroma bandwidth'). Dark and bright halos are both still present even at level 1 they are just more hidden due to smearing and diffusion. It appears that 'Picture' levels 2 and 1 are just softened versions of the pre-emphasized base signal (level 3). This seems to be a good shot for that purpose. I recommend doing this to compare in your browser: open each image in a new tab, zoom using CTRL and + then flick back and forth between them to compare.īefore the rest of the comparison, I want to narrow down the 'best' settings for the AG-DS555 as it's a relative unknown for me. popular release and not super new = relatively easy to find if someone else wants to buy a copy for their own comparison (there are currently >37 copies on eBay 3 of the listings are $4 shipped.

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concurrent DVD release, with open matte full screen edition for a direct reference.

My best didn't turn out to be very good, but it'll have to do I suppose. I did my best to match the levels and colors with global Avisynth tweaks across each entire capture. This is a comparison of many VCRs playing the same retail SP mode tape.