I am going to get E* with the vip622 installed this week. Does the vip622 have native pass through? Or am I going to have to swith the resolution back and forth when I watch HD and standard? I used to have to do this with my MOXI and I don't know if I can go back it was kind of irritating.

Thanks for any help.

It does not have native passthrough, (although it is apparently something they are working on).

However I am not sure why you would need to switch back and forth. I have my 622 outputting to 1080i, and it formats all the programming just fine. SD looks great, and you can choose to have it pillarboxed or stretched. It will remember your setting independently for SD channels, so when you switch to HD it will still look correct.

So to clarify, SD has its own setting (pillarboxed, stretched, zoomed etc) and it will save that for all SD channels. HD has its own settings (Regular and zoom I believe) and it will save that setting for all HD channels. So that way when you change channels you never have to change output resolution.

Hope that helps.

Sounds good to me. I am glad they have seperate settings.
Does it do a good job on stretching the SD?

Thanks again for the help.

It does not have native passthrough, (although it is apparently something they are working on).

However I am not sure why you would need to switch back and forth. I have my 622 outputting to 1080i, and it formats all the programming just fine. SD looks great, and you can choose to have it pillarboxed or stretched. It will remember your setting independently for SD channels, so when you switch to HD it will still look correct.

So to clarify, SD has its own setting (pillarboxed, stretched, zoomed etc) and it will save that for all SD channels. HD has its own settings (Regular and zoom I believe) and it will save that setting for all HD channels. So that way when you change channels you never have to change output resolution.

Hope that helps.

Where is the setting to stretch SD content. I can't find it anywhere.

(Edit) Never mind I found the * button.

I am contemplating E*, but what I am looking for is native passthrough for HD modes, as in pass 720p as 720p, and 1080i as 1080i instead of decoding/encoding everything to one particular format. Any hope of having this feature anytime soon?

I have my ViP622 attached to a projector that can accept up to a 1080i signal but can only output up to 720p. I originally set the ViP622 to output HD in 720p, but the quality is significantly better on 1080i, in case anyone else wasn't sure which would be best with a 720p capable TV