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Originally Posted by tomdkat
I'm glad to hear you're really enjoying your Momitsu! 
I've been reading some additional commentary on this player and it seems to have had an "interesting" history, plagued with quirks galore. I guess one of the latest firmware updates resolves a lot of these issues. As for the video quality from this player, it seems like the component video output at 720p or 1080i is a bit softer than people would prefer. I've read a comment where the DVI RGBHV analog output is "better" than the 720p or 1080i component output of this player.
For $300, it certainly brings a LOT to the table and is definitely worth checking out!
By the way, have you experienced any of the lip sync or lock-up problems people have been reporting?
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No particular quirks so far, just the slowness of the
interface between my HDTV and the player when
changing from one hi-def mode to another. But then
I've only played two movies all the way through; in
addition however I've now sampled perhaps 14 or
15 others from my library which is the source of
my comments. Based on performance so far, I
don't see any further need to change the machine
from the 1080i it's set for now. Hope I don't
experience 'quirkiness' in the future, because
that is one characteristic I don't need.
As to the "softness" of the image, I would agree,
but that appears only when viewing some of the
reference-quality movies -- but again, not all. North
by Northwest and S/B The 5th Element come out
PERFECT, that's the only description I can render. On
a few others sampled, I too have found moving the
"sharpness" control on the set one click to the right
compensates for the "softness" you're describing. It
appears what's happening, is that you're taking a
native 480p image that's so good to begin with, that
up-converting is almost a kind of 'overkill' to a certain
extent; yet why that 'overkill' does not come into
play with North By Northwest and S/B The 5th Element,
I don't know. Khartoum, a Cinerama movie out on a
quite-good transfer(at least for MGM), requires the
sharpness to the right as the up-converted image is
just a little too soft for my taste. I understand that
some high-frequency roll-off via component is part of
the reason for this phenomenon.
Overall, the result at 1080i on most everything I've
tried so far is absolutely STUNNING. I''m curious to
know how your readers using this machine on a
FRONT projector have fared.
Hope this information is of some benefit to your
readers considering purchase of this new technology.
Milt R. Smith
mrsmith2002@yahoo.com