Comment by detourdog
I have a 90’s era Faroudja line doubler analog components and the size of a VCR.
Looks like this https://www.ukaudiomart.com/details/649142996-faroudja-vp250...
I have a 90’s era Faroudja line doubler analog components and the size of a VCR.
Looks like this https://www.ukaudiomart.com/details/649142996-faroudja-vp250...
Wow :) I got a 18 inch office-display by Fujitsu-Siemens with S-PVA panel, long ago.
Broke down after a long time. Repaired it by resoldering some simple capacitors.
During the repair I had a look at the chips. One (or two?)had that Faroudja label on it.
At the time I didn't know about that, and just wondered WTF is that? Searched the net and "got it". They meanwhile got bought up by someone, Wiki as of now says STMicroelectronics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroudja
That display is still working but mostly gathering dust, some 8800 km away from me, atop a 4x kvm, managing some old stuff, also gathering dust :)
My first job out of uni in the mid 2000s was working on line doubling and film mode detection for Imagination Technologies (makers of the graphics chip in the Dreamcast). Faroudja was our benchmark!
Felt like a real baller with a giant HDTV on my desk, but less fun was watching test scenes from Titanic at 1FPS over and over.