New DVDO/Achorbay website

[Steve_B]

Maybe this means new horizons for updates of our VP's

[Dale Adams]

Or perhaps just a new marketing VP at ABT. . .

- Dale Adams

[Chris5]

Oooooh, Pretty...

The old one did look a bit 'pants'


for those that don't know
'pants' is UK speak for not very good.

[Russell Cole]

Its still "pants" without a software update....

Do they think that everyone will forget about the poor s/w support if they have a "pretty" website.

Regards

[choddo2006]

What software update is that? Are you complaining about how long the 1.01 release has been in beta, or is there something new you're expecting?

[Russell Cole]

Originally Posted by choddo2006

What software update is that? Are you complaining about how long the 1.01 release has been in beta, or is there something new you're expecting?

Expecting what I paid for.... Full release software including PReP and bug fixes and yes, complaining about how long 1.01 has been in Beta.

[choddo2006]

Oh ok.

Seems to me that a lot of the world is moving to semi-permanent beta-mode, an innovation that the open source world invented. Doesn't quite work when you can't save your settings easily on the vp50 to make upgrading painless.

But I think the beta is pretty solid, been using it since it came out & apart from the occassional weird menu slowdown had no other problems.

[Steve_B]

Originally Posted by choddo2006

Seems to me that a lot of the world is moving to semi-permanent beta-mode, an innovation that the open source world invented.

Thats fine for open source as its (99.9% of time) free... but we've paid a lot for the VP50's and would expect atleast some kind of feedback from DVDO as to whats going on... unless of course they don't know themselves.

In reality maybe we've been spoilt with the regularity of updates for previous generations and DVDO are re-aligning our expectations. Or a company which is reacting to market forces and restructuring to take advantage.

I would personally suspect the VP50 was rushed to market, so they could concentrate on the integration chips. I also feel there possible won't be an update of the VP50's for quite sometime, be it firmware or hardware.

[Russell Cole]

Originally Posted by choddo2006

Oh ok.

Seems to me that a lot of the world is moving to semi-permanent beta-mode, an innovation that the open source world invented. Doesn't quite work when you can't save your settings easily on the vp50 to make upgrading painless.

But I think the beta is pretty solid, been using it since it came out & apart from the occassional weird menu slowdown had no other problems.

Have you had any problems with the Test patterns.... Mine seem to appear almost randomly, halfway up/down the screen, off left or right, but rarely in the correct place.

[petes]

Originally Posted by Steve_B

I would personally suspect the VP50 was rushed to market, so they could concentrate on the integration chips. I also feel there possible won't be an update of the VP50's for quite sometime, be it firmware or hardware.

Although you can never be sure, Josh posted on, as Choddo likes to know it, the "other place" that we can expect a f/w update for the VP50 in mid-end March. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&&#post9759494. Since we haven't heard anything from Josh for quite a while, it would seem unlikely he'd come back onto the forums to tell us something if it wasn't at least what they currently anticipate.

[Steve_B]

Cheers for that...

Suggestion from Josh seems to indicate 1.01 will become "release" sometime before the end of March then followed by 1.02 Beta.

Maybe then 1.03 with VRS noise reduction sometime after that... Mid year perhaps...

Sounds promising...

[Likvid]

Originally Posted by Steve_B

Cheers for that...

Suggestion from Josh seems to indicate 1.01 will become "release" sometime before the end of March then followed by 1.02 Beta.

Maybe then 1.03 with VRS noise reduction sometime after that... Mid year perhaps...

Sounds promising...

I can bet that the VP60 or whatever they will call it will be out in September/October if i know the business tactics of DVDO.

To get NR you need to upgrade probably later this year.

[martin1234567]

Has anyone downloaded their latest brochure revised January 2007

here is the vp50 specs from it

• VRS Precision Deinterlacing™ of 480i/576i/1080i
• VRS Precision Scaling of inputs up to 1080p
• PReP™
• Noise Reduction
• Detail Enhancement
• 11 Video Inputs / 9 Audio Inputs (4 HDMI Inputs, capable of passing through or processing resolutions up to 1080p)
• HDMI Audio / Video Output
• Component /RGBHV Analog Output
• User-Defi nable Output Resolutions between

Oh look 2 features that aren't in my VP50

I would hope that both appear at some point

[ihan]

"Precision Scaling of inputs up to 1080p" surely that makes 3 features missing

[Dale Adams]

Originally Posted by ihan

"Precision Scaling of inputs up to 1080p" surely that makes 3 features missing

The VP50 will indeed handle a 1080p input, but only via HDMI.

- Dale Adams