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carrboroman · **Posted:** 20 Jan 2021, 19:56

Hello,

disclaimer: I'm not involved with the below mentioned company, the goal of this post is to share what I recently discovered and see if the community may have interest and possibly combine effort, so we may end with a solution to expand options for upscalers with bad comb filters, using a separate unit... really hope this will be useful somehow!

So, while looking for a dedicated comb filter and digital converter, I stumbled upon this article by Daniel Ogilvie, from SingMai https://www.singmai.com :

https://www.eetimes.com/how-fpgas-are-breathing-new-life-into-the-analog-video-format/#

I contacted him, and turns out he has a FPGA-based product he's updating these days, the SM03 video decoder, as he's focusing on analog sources like VHS, so after mentioning the LD community and upscaler/filter problem, he confirmed interest in working on the product update including testing LDs players as well.

So, my understanding is he's available having people here testing it, in case providing feedback so he can improve the product specifically for the LD case... my guts tells me given it's FPGA, the process may indeed allow few reiterations and maybe feature requests?
I provided my availability of course, as I do have a pretty decent setup with multiple players, scalers(DVO/Lumagen/Micomsoft) and projector/IPS monitors, but I believe there are people here who may have precise ideas about what a comb filter/converter for LD should do... so, what do you guys think?

Here I uploaded the data sheet http://www.netpacket.it/LDs/SM03_brochure.pdf ,.., maybe that will already show if there are important features missing? It includes contacts for those interested in reaching out to him etc
Thanks for anyone chiming in and helping, I really hope we may end with a new solution :)

Max