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#82853 - 03/12/10 04:22 PM Reon in 886
Grog Offline
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Registered: 02/26/09
Posts: 28
Loc: Greenville, SC
I'm wondering how well 886 owners feel the reon video scaler works...
How good is the picture when scaling (and/or "processing video") a regular cable/sat tv channel with reon compared to the HD channels that your cable/sat service provides going thru something without a scaler?
Any opinions apreciated.
Thanks,
Grog

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#82859 - 03/12/10 04:58 PM Re: Reon in 886 [Re: Grog]
gonk Offline
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Registered: 03/21/01
Posts: 14054
Loc: Memphis, TN USA
I've used Reon in my 885, so I can offer some comment regarding its use with cable. The Reon chip is a pretty nice video processor, but it's not going to make SD channels look like HD. You'd be hard pressed to find a video processor that would do that. What it can do is make those SD channels look less like an over-compressed and badly-deinterlaced than the cable box will. The cable boxes I've used have dreadful scaling/deinterlacing performance, so if you can set the box to output a basically unprocessed video signal the Reon can do a consistently better job.
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#82879 - 03/13/10 12:17 AM Re: Reon in 886 [Re: gonk]
XenonMan Offline
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Registered: 04/08/08
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Loc: Columbus,North Carolina
I only have two video sources hooked up to my 886 and both output HD so no upscaling is used.
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#82930 - 03/14/10 02:36 PM Re: Reon in 886 [Re: XenonMan]
Brandon B Offline
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Registered: 05/01/02
Posts: 130
Loc: Louse Angeles, CA
The improvement in satellite for me was not worth any mucking it might do with my HD sources, so I have it bypassed.

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#82934 - 03/14/10 06:14 PM Re: Reon in 886 [Re: Brandon B]
ryck Offline
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Registered: 10/03/02
Posts: 18
Loc: saratoga springs,ny,usa
I have a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 4250 HDC cable box. I use a Monoprice 1 in,2 out splitter (HDP-102). All connections are HDMI. With this setup I can watch cable TV with or without the 886. The only reason I use the 886 is for sound processing. I don't see a difference in the video.
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