Darbee Darblet: Makes games and movies look that more crisp

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I never knew about this, but the videos show that it's pretty awesome. It IS pricey though, around 280 dollars. I'll let the videos speak for themselves and post Eurogamer's review as well:







http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-darbee-darblet-review

Some may say this just adds a sharpening filter, but it doesn't. You can clearly see things like MC's armour is a much crisper and detailed when the Darbee is enabled. Or the rocks in the BF3 video.
 
I'm not really seeing any difference aside from slightly different contrast in the color and some sharpening. 720p YouTube video doesn't do a good job of showing the results.
 
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Well plenty of people on Amazon seem very happy with it. You honestly don't see how uncrisp some things look and look that more crisp and clear when it's enabled?
 
MosquitoSmasher said:
Well plenty of people on Amazon seem very happy with it. You honestly don't see how uncrisp some things look and look that more crisp and clear when it's enabled?
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Plenty of people on Amazon love TVs that use motion interpolation and overblown contrast. If they're happy with it cool, but that's not going to stop me from calling it like I see it.
 
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MosquitoSmasher said:
Well plenty of people on Amazon seem very happy with it. You honestly don't see how uncrisp some things look and look that more crisp and clear when it's enabled?
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All it is is a post process filter. It actually ruined the image quality in quite a few areas in those videos, like adding super dark dimples scattered over a woman's face making her look like a 90-year-old hag. It doesn't add image quality; it just alters it and not for the better.
 
Going by the pics in the Eurogamer article, the pics may sometimes be overly done (a little too much shadows), but as a whole I'd say the result is a bit better than the original image. Some images seemed like no difference though.

The thing about ultimate image quality is that it only goes so far in terms of usefulness. If it's a close up cut scene or a slow paced game, then sure it may help a lot. but if it's a s faster paced game most people won't have the time or care enough as they are always moving. Awful blur effect can screw up nice static images too.

I'm sure in every shooter out there the devs put lots o detail into the environment, characters and clothes, yet most stuff people don't notice as they care more about aiming and shooting.
 
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I'm not really seeing any difference aside from slightly different contrast in the color and some sharpening. 720p YouTube video doesn't do a good job of showing the results.
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Yeah, me too. Not really see any difference as much.
 
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