I have three Lumagen XS-3D scalers in clean new like condition complete with all accessories.
I have been happy with this scaler from Lumagen
I'm not a whiz kid when it comes to calibrating these scalers as I find the instructions manual very complicated to read.
As an amateur I have calibrated my scalers where I find settings enjoyable on picture quality.
One thing that annoys me very much on my TV is the random clouding in night time scenes.
When playing random laserdiscs, movies showing dark night time scenes I can see smear like clouding on random places on my tv-screen.
This phenomenon with clouding smear, is it coming from the technology from my TV or is the smear coming from the scaler?
It's very annoying when I can't get rid of the smear getting a perfectly clean picture.
I have connected my laserdisc players with High Performance Quality S-video cables from British company QED and Ixos to my Lumagen XS-3D.
Between Lumagen XS-3D to my TV I connected a HQ Chord HDMI cable.
Laserdisc player is CLD-R7G
TV is a Grundig Full HD made in Turkey
although the company was German in the good old days.
I have also connected my LD player through the 2nd S-video output direct to TV without using the XS-3D only to compare picture quality between both set ups with my scaler or not using the scaler.
Here is the conclusion:
Watching laserdiscs without a scaler on a flatscreen Full HD TV or UHD TV will give some weird skin tones on characters in the movie.
Skin tones tends to turn brownish and very dark compared to using a good CRT TV showing perfect picture quality.
I don't recommend watching laserdisc movies without a scaler with a modern flatscreen TV.
Connecting analogue electronics like an LD-player to modern digital electronics like flatscreen TV's without any enhancement electronic gadget in between is not to be recommended.
Colors and details will look faded and washed out!
Using a scaler is a compromise to improve picture quality.
Although a scaler might cause other issues when in use?
I don't know?
What does the experts say?