New DVDO EDGE !! - Page 106

Originally Posted by Fudoh

Yeah, for gaming there's really hardly any reason to prefer a VPxx machine to the Edge. With the current 1.1 production firmware there are still a few issues (especially with 288p50Hz material), but that'll be fixed for sure.... But overall the Edge is THE way to go for gaming PLUS movie processing.

Originally Posted by Fudoh

Yeah, for gaming there's really hardly any reason to prefer a VPxx machine to the Edge. With the current 1.1 production firmware there are still a few issues (especially with 288p50Hz material), but that'll be fixed for sure.

Compared to a VP30/102 combo there's nothing to be missed, except one tiny bit: If you're feeding progressive material (240p or 480p) and turn the Gamemode on to minimize the lag, the Detail and Edge Enhancement tools are disabled for any reason (probably a limitation of the ABT2010). But overall the Edge is THE way to go for gaming PLUS movie processing.

Originally Posted by Cynn

2.) For my next gen consoles.

Now #1 is easy to understand. For #2, let me explain: I own a Samsung 650 120hz LCD. This LCD has input lag if you use it's suite of image enhancers. The only way to get a lag free image is to use VGA or PC mode on HDMI 2. That's all good and fine, but the colors get washed out a bit and the whole image goes super soft.

I'd like my DVDO unit to go in there, bump up the color and sharpness a bit then deliver that to my TV. Then I could have a very nice image for the cost of 6ms delay as opposed to 60 by putting the TV in another mode.

Originally Posted by Nappy Priest

Please do let us know what you think once you try it on the XBR6 - I just want someone to tell me I'm not blind!

Originally Posted by flyingvee

works fine on my rig; as a musician, I'm touchy enough about lip-synch that I stayed away from the earlier Lumagens, for just that reason.

Have never had to adjust on Edge - just use auto. Have only seen the auto setting fail once, back with my VP50; for some reason, the local HD broadcast was about a quarter second off. Was able to manually adjust the VP50 to match; guessing that Edge has as much range, but have never tried to see.

Originally Posted by Tom899

I have my Edge now, sorry for asking but I cannot find anything to do with Auto lip sync in the menus? only manual control?

Originally Posted by JoshA

By default the audio is synched with the video.

Originally Posted by Tom899

I took delivery of a new Edge today. I'm on a business trip for a few months so unfortunately I can't really try it out to its full potential with my 6 HDMI input sources, and 1 component. So, all I have with me at the apartment is a SD DVD player and HDMI 24" monitor. This is what I found, and will talk to John at Anchor Bay tomorrow. My one input (DVD player) has composite, S-Video, or component. I first chose composite to the Edge and started playing a movie, but no picture, just blue screen. The Edge menus all work and it shows a composite signal is detected but just a blue screen. I reset the unit, updated to v1.1 firmware, reset again and still nothing. I decided to box it up, so I unplugged the unit. I then decided to give it one more try so I plugged it back in and guess what, I had a picture and the blue LED on the front lit up, which I had not seen yet. I turned it off with the remote and then back on, no picture again. If I unplug and plug it back in, again I have a picture. I decided to try S-Video, same situation. I then decided to try Component, now I can turn it off and on with no problem. What do you think? If you are only using S-Video or Composite maybe the signal is not strong enough to turn the circuits on and require a power disconnect - reconnect? I don't know and maybe I shouldn't worry about it? Very strange, and probably no one has an Edge with just composite hooked up to verify this, it could be a small bug?
Thanks for reading this long note.

Originally Posted by stumblebum

I have an issue with the digital audio signal carried over the HDMI input and outputted via the optical output. I do not receive a dolby digital or DTS digital signal.

All settings on the source components and the Edge were set accordingly.

I then tried connecting optical cables from my source components to the Edge optical inputs and received the DD/DTS signals...but am experiencing audio dropouts when changing channels on DTV receiver or switching from one component to the other.
If I turn Edge off and on the audio comes back.

I was under the impression that you could hook up sources with HDMI inputs and output to the optical output (if no HDMI output was on receiver/preamp and it would work).

In additon I also updated firmware to 1.1

Could unit be defective ? Should I exchange for a new one?

Originally Posted by dsidney

It happens with my unit too. My satellite box has only S-video output, so my usage is with it connected to this port on EDGE all the time.
When EDGE powers on itself automatically it works just fine with the STB. But sometimes if I turn off the EDGE on the remote and turn it back on, it gives just the blue screen.
I'll do more testing on it with the composite too and report back.

Originally Posted by Tom899

This is what I found, and will talk to John at Anchor Bay tomorrow.

Originally Posted by rockonpearl

I have the same problem and even worse ... i get horrible squawking sounds when switching between sources.

Originally Posted by rockonpearl

I have had my EDGE for a couple weeks now and Ken at Anchor Bay helped me set it up. Everything works great except pasing dolby digital signal through EDGE to my pre/pro results in an annoying (and loud) squawking noise when I switch edge channels and when I browse menus through my TIVO. This is truly disappointing and I am hopeful that Ken and the rest of the Anchor Bay folks will get the firmware updated with a fix as soon as possible. They claim that the audio is transparently passed thorugh, however I never had this switching noise in my system before. The EDGE is definately the culprit. I left a voicemail for Ken yesterday asking for an update on this issue, but have not heard back from him yet. Both Ken and John from Anchor Bay heard the squawking through the phone, so they know it is a real issue and Ken admitted that they did detect some switching noise when routing audio through optical cable to a processor or receiver. In my case I have a very sensitive Audio Refinement Pre2DSP processor / pre-amp that is only amplifying the horrible switching noise. The interesting thins is that when I change my audio output to PCM, the switching noise improves. Please let me know if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. I am afraid that this may damage my speakers if it goes on much longer. Thanks!

Originally Posted by JoshA

I think you mean "Josh at Anchor Bay" and I haven't been there since September...

Originally Posted by aaronwt

Maybe there is a problem with the box. I have no issue like that with both my EDGE units. So maybe it needs to be replaced. Although I have no idea. Just that both my units are fine, and I'm only using HDMI for all audio since all my components have HDMI.

Originally Posted by Nappy Priest

Well, after giving it two more weeks, I've decided to send it back - it's just not doing anything for me. For the record, I have a 46XBR6, and a BDP-S350 (Sony Blu-Ray player). The Edge not only did nothing to improve the picture from either the STB or the player, but it actually made the HD channels look worse (for instance, the Program Guide lettering got all fuzzy and literally painful to read when going through the Edge).

Not trying to diss anyone for whom the Edge has done wonders - it just seems to me that those who have opined that the new TVs and players offer the same or equal performance right out of the box are correct.

Originally Posted by Jason Bourne

My replacement Edge should arrive later this week (first unit arrived with parts rattling around inside from onecall).

I will be running my TiVo S3 (Comcast) and Wii through it.

Would any of you run a Blu-ray or Oppo 983 through it? These sources are providing pretty great pictures already on our Pioneer 6010.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Ray Collins

I am in the process of installing a HT and intend to use a Planar 8150 projector, an Integra 9.9 pre/pro and a Panasonic BD-35 player(because the Oppo BDP 83 has not been released). Do I need an EDGE?

Ray

Originally Posted by Tom899

I took delivery of a new Edge today. I'm on a business trip for a few months so unfortunately I can't really try it out to its full potential with my 6 HDMI input sources, and 1 component. So, all I have with me at the apartment is a SD DVD player and HDMI 24" monitor. This is what I found, and will talk to John at Anchor Bay tomorrow. My one input (DVD player) has composite, S-Video, or component. I first chose composite to the Edge and started playing a movie, but no picture, just blue screen. The Edge menus all work and it shows a composite signal is detected but just a blue screen. I reset the unit, updated to v1.1 firmware, reset again and still nothing. I decided to box it up, so I unplugged the unit. I then decided to give it one more try so I plugged it back in and guess what, I had a picture and the blue LED on the front lit up, which I had not seen yet. I turned it off with the remote and then back on, no picture again. If I unplug and plug it back in, again I have a picture. I decided to try S-Video, same situation. I then decided to try Component, now I can turn it off and on with no problem. What do you think? If you are only using S-Video or Composite maybe the signal is not strong enough to turn the circuits on and require a power disconnect - reconnect? I don't know and maybe I shouldn't worry about it? Very strange, and probably no one has an Edge with just composite hooked up to verify this, it could be a small bug?
Thanks for reading this long note.

Originally Posted by fchan

If you have just one DVD player source, why would you even choose to use anything other than component out. Surely that will give you the best picture. You should be able to test your theory by connecting both the s-video out and the component out from the dvd player to the Edge and now see if your s-video out is still blue screen. I do use the composite in from a Series 1 TV to the Edge and I never have problem with blue screens, although I also used 3 of the HDMI inputs and the component in as well.

Originally Posted by Tom899

Yes, good information, and you are right, if there is a choice always use component over composite / S-Video. The reason I didn't use component right from the start, I couldn't find my component cables right away and thought what the heck, I'll use composite to get this thing working, I was anxious to hook it up. Now, if I hook up all three (composite, S-Video, Component)from the same DVD player, which is the only piece of hardware I temporarily have with me, the Edge will work ok, turn on and off with the remote, and I believe simply because it's seeing a signal from the component ports. If I unplug the component and leave composite and S-Video plugged in I can verify the problem, which is needing a unplug and plug back in after a turn off with remote. Personally, I'm not worried about it because I'll never be using composite or S-Video alone with no other inputs. It was just interesting to find this out, and to hear conformation right away from another user that can duplicate the issue and has experienced it in the past. I was just worried at first that I might have a faulty unit, and, there might be something else wrong with it that is not immediately showing up, but if this is common and normal than I'm not worried and won't waste my time and money returning for a repair, that might not even be possible if this just the way it is. You know the old saying, it is what it is..... That being said I'm sure I will be very happy with this unit once I get it hooked up in my system.
Thanks for feedback....

Originally Posted by Ray Collins

I am in the process of installing a HT and intend to use a Planar 8150 projector, an Integra 9.9 pre/pro and a Panasonic BD-35 player(because the Oppo BDP 83 has not been released). Do I need an EDGE?

Ray

Originally Posted by dsidney

Tom,

I forgot to say it in my previous post. Other than the problem we are talking about, and some sound drop outs (when changing channels) if I use digital connection (Coax) from the STB to EDGE, my unit works perfectly with fir 1.1.
I suspect that most of problems are due to EDGE having some difficulties with the STB signal. My STB is very simple, with only composite and S-video outs, and probably very low quality too (it is made by Phillips).

Even with my low quality STB signal, the improvement EDGE gives me on my setup is fantastic.
EDGE is now the best and most important peace of gear I have in my setup hands down (used to be my two Oppo players, btw still love them, and the 981 trough the EDGE is the best PQ I have ever had).

Sidney