If you are
reading this article on the Holo3DGraph, then you've been doing your homework.
The weakest in in Home Theater PC is the ability to scale video based
material that make up much of the legacy SDTV material.
Immersive built it's name on the pioneering work implementing the
Faroudja DCDi to create the most powerful processing card for the PC,
the Holo3DGraph, the first of it's kind to take advantage of SDI
(Serial Digital Interface), a hidden advantage in many DVD decoders on
the market. But the restless engineers at Immersive decided to
push the envelope, moving on to unleash the scaling capability of the
next generation FLi2300.
The
Holo3DGraph-II introduces HD resolution scaling with the add-on HD-Aux
card with it's superior de-interlacing/scaling combination that can
mold HDTV resolution to the optimal rate of your display.
What's
new?
1. The Fli2200
has been replaced by the Fli2300
2. Horizontal and Vertical Chroma/Luma and Detail Enhancement Settings
3. Noise Reduction Circuitry
4. TrueLife™ Processing (isolates skin tones and minimizes
processing to those areas)
5. Built in scaler/upconverter (superior 12-tap scaler vs. 3-4 tap scalers on graphic cards)
6. On-board 10-bit DAC allows for direct output from the H3D-II card
via Component or RGB output - meaning you don't need an expensive
graphics card, nor do you need to send the data over the PCI bus as it
will go directly out of the Fli2300. (*requires the optional HD Aux
board)
7. Sub-pixel horizontal/vertical chroma delay
8. 24-bit input/output headers to accommodate a new daughter card, the
HD-Aux that can accept HDTV via DVI/Analog, let the Fli2300
process/scale it, then back out of the HDTV Aux card via DVI/analog (optional DVI-RGB Y cable
allow use of both the analog and digital in/out of the two DVI-I
connectors on the HD Aux board)
9. Excellent frame rate conversion allows for 59.94/72/75, etc. frames
rates when using the HD Aux board.
The most
significant in the new card is the ability to scale anything and
everything without the use of the PC's main graphics. Listed
below are the possible configurations:
GPU loopback -
Radeon card fed DVI out and into the HD Aux DVI input (can be jumpered
to be an A/B switch or to be scaled by Fli2300). If configured to
allow the Fli2300 to scale then the Fli2300 can also be used for luma/chroma/detail
enhancement. If configured to be A/B switch then the DVI or RGB signal
from Radeon would be switched through seemlessly. This may be useful
for customers wanting to use software DVD players and further
processing its output with the Fli2300.
HDTV Input - into the HD Aux card from component Dish 6000 or RGB into
our card from RCA DTC100. Either in which can be scaled by the Fli2300
and the user can apply further picture enhancements as needed. The
major draw here is that the user can conceiveably have a single DVI
run to their display from our card. They can also input analog HDTV
and have it sent through the Fli2300 and then back out using DVI.
MyHD 100/120 - card fed via RGB/Component output and looped-back into the
HD Aux board will allow scaling by the Fli2300 and the user can apply
enhancements and do frame rat conversions as needed.
Sigma XCard - fed via bt656 ribbon cable into the H3D-II card whereby
the Fli2300 will deinterlace it and then scaled the Fli2300 and the
user can apply luma/chroma/detail enhancement/noise reduction as
needed.
DVI Output via HD Aux board using the Fli2300's 12-tap scaling engine,
or;
RGB or Component Output via HD Aux board using on-board DAC and
12-tap scaling engine on Fli2300