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mth1986
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (Vaporware)  Posted: 22 Jan 2025, 20:48 |
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nidi wrote: not Vaporware, I do have both the old and new unit. Oh okay. Any chance you could find the time to do a little review / comparison etc.?
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (Vaporware)  Posted: 22 Jan 2025, 21:38 |
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mth1986 wrote: nidi wrote: not Vaporware, I do have both the old and new unit. Oh okay. Any chance you could find the time to do a little review / comparison etc.? what would you like to gave reported in the review?
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (Vaporware)  Posted: 22 Jan 2025, 22:30 |
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Oh I am just curious about the differences to other scalers and your overall impression! If this however is your first scaler than this is obsolute for the most part, of course. I would be very interested in how it compares to other pricier scalers like the RT4K in NTSC/PAL or a Lumagen? How annoying is the setup and adjusting the correct aspect ratio for example or did you just plug it in and the picture was already to your liking? Where do you come from? LD -> AVR -> TV? LD comb filter only? Are you using it for LD only or VHS / DVD / Video Games as well? Cheers, Markus
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (Vaporware)  Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 07:45 |
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nidi wrote: mth1986 wrote: nidi wrote: not Vaporware, I do have both the old and new unit. Oh okay. Any chance you could find the time to do a little review / comparison etc.? what would you like to gave reported in the review? How did you get the "new" unit? He took preorders and then promptly disappeared and stopped responding? I'd like pictures of the units. These should be considered vaporware until a single picture of them is shown. They were apparently shown at tradeshows but, again, there were no photographs/videos taken of the active hardware that I could find. There is discussion based on YouTube uploads that demonstrations were, at best, ADV Eval boards behind the curtain based on common pixel shift and shared artifacts. All known "pictures" of these units provided by SingMai were Photoshops. Pictures of the menus and general features would be ideal. One mode that I'd love pictures of is the proposed color-coded "decoding mode display" which would modify the input video with a color overlay showing the active comb filter by region (The manual can't be downloaded anymore but it was something like blue for notch, green for 2D, purple for 3D). The manual that was posted to the SingMai website only had simulations of these functions/menus and no real screenshots. I believe there was also a mode that showed the total delay? Or maybe that was just an idea that wasn't implemented. There is a lot of unique functionality that was proposed with this hardware. When I spoke to him asking for some sort of tangible evidence of anything or a 3rd party device that licensed the IP core that I could reference, he refused or dodged me. Again, a photographic (or video) dive into the menus and output, focusing on the unique functionality, would be appreciated since you may be the only one who can prove that he actually pulled it off.
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (Vaporware)  Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 08:06 |
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nidi wrote: what would you like to gave reported in the review? Photos (outside case and inside FPGA) or it doesn't exist  Posts on the FB page also wondering if anyone ever saw the final product. Last post was May 2024. Attachment:
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (discontinued)  Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 07:01 |
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nidi wrote: front & back Thanks! But what's INSIDE? Julien
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (discontinued)  Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 10:34 |
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Thank you for the pictures/videos.
It's very frustrating to see this since had he provided anything similar showing tangible hardware or a workbench or a blog regarding developments...or anything really, I would have purchased one. How someone can ask for so much while being willing to share so little to potential investors (particularly when the R&D was evidently done) is hard for me to understand. Perhaps a better engineer than salesman...or perhaps a perfectionist who didn't think showing something 98% complete was good enough? (Cue Richard Williams)
A health scare followed by silence is not good. I hope that he is recovering. Regardless of performance, it would be a serious shame if that's the end of the story after all that time. He couldn't have made very many.
(Yes, FPGAs were very hard to get during the pandemic... Where I work, we had to shift a whole bunch of designs away from constrained FPGAs (like the Spartan 6) to other less-in-demand product lines or entirely different manufacturers. It affected a bunch of other active devices too (MCUs, SoCs, ASICs, you name it). It was a very hard time to be a hardware designer; lead times were literally changing by the day and we never really knew if a chosen replacement part would be delayed or EoL'd in a month or a year....or if the a sudden spike in marketplace demand due to other part shortages would significantly increase the cost of a part.)
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Post subject: Re: SingMai FPGA external 3D comb filter (discontinued)  Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 12:32 |
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Oh okay that are sad news. Thanks for the research Julien. So in the end it is "Vaporware", but for all the wrong reasons. 
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