Hi All:
___The initial Immersive TheaterTek DVD Player thread is fast becoming a monster so I am locking it with this new thread to take its place. Please, keep the bantering in this thread down to a minimum and your posts to the point. If you have a legitimate question, please feel free to add to the thread as you would any other. If you want to create a post in regards to its cost, please don’t post because it is not going to change anytime soon. From my discussions in regards to the new player, new features will be added as newer features and more stable code become available.
___The big addition is in regards to SW DD/DTS decoding capabilities from the TheaterTek player itself. I believe there is a back door that can be exploited in the way the player is coded but I cannot say if it will work for all 5.1/7.1 cards just yet. Give this some time to develop for those that must use the analog outputs of their 5.1/7/1 cards as needed. Please also remember that if you are using a poor quality DAC based card like almost all AC97 spec’ed cards to date, do not expect the sound to be nearly that of a std. S/PDIF output via COAX/TosLink to your DD/DTS receiver of choice. I have seen a few posts in regards to this w/ very misleading information in terms of sound quality alone.
___Someone asked about the poor ATI 4.0/4.1 player rendering under Windows 2000. This player does not exhibit the posterization artifacts in dark scenes like the ATI player under Windows 2000 that I have seen so far and it does give you all the adjustment capability you could want under Windows 2000/XP as no other player can to date.
___Finally, I have not had time to test the absolute latest RC made available to me due to time constraints but I did want to make a statement that the player acts slightly different under XP than it does under 98 SE/Millennium. This is not a display quality difference but I wanted to note that the player is slightly degraded in terms of HW performance and the ability to switch resolutions on the fly vs. the older consumer based Win 98 SE/Millennium OS’s. This is definitely because of ATI’s latest and only publicly released 6.13.3276 XP based drivers but they do not effect the players PQ nor the ability to control it under normal uses.
___Good Luck
___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
___ [email protected]
___The initial Immersive TheaterTek DVD Player thread is fast becoming a monster so I am locking it with this new thread to take its place. Please, keep the bantering in this thread down to a minimum and your posts to the point. If you have a legitimate question, please feel free to add to the thread as you would any other. If you want to create a post in regards to its cost, please don’t post because it is not going to change anytime soon. From my discussions in regards to the new player, new features will be added as newer features and more stable code become available.
___The big addition is in regards to SW DD/DTS decoding capabilities from the TheaterTek player itself. I believe there is a back door that can be exploited in the way the player is coded but I cannot say if it will work for all 5.1/7.1 cards just yet. Give this some time to develop for those that must use the analog outputs of their 5.1/7/1 cards as needed. Please also remember that if you are using a poor quality DAC based card like almost all AC97 spec’ed cards to date, do not expect the sound to be nearly that of a std. S/PDIF output via COAX/TosLink to your DD/DTS receiver of choice. I have seen a few posts in regards to this w/ very misleading information in terms of sound quality alone.
___Someone asked about the poor ATI 4.0/4.1 player rendering under Windows 2000. This player does not exhibit the posterization artifacts in dark scenes like the ATI player under Windows 2000 that I have seen so far and it does give you all the adjustment capability you could want under Windows 2000/XP as no other player can to date.
___Finally, I have not had time to test the absolute latest RC made available to me due to time constraints but I did want to make a statement that the player acts slightly different under XP than it does under 98 SE/Millennium. This is not a display quality difference but I wanted to note that the player is slightly degraded in terms of HW performance and the ability to switch resolutions on the fly vs. the older consumer based Win 98 SE/Millennium OS’s. This is definitely because of ATI’s latest and only publicly released 6.13.3276 XP based drivers but they do not effect the players PQ nor the ability to control it under normal uses.
___Good Luck
___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
___ [email protected]