High Technology and Simplicity Combined By Rick Raymo "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
After having owned numerous 'line-doublers' (all the way back to Faroudja upscaling my 480i sources to 480p for my first home theater,) and innumerable HDMI switchers, I have finally found one that takes the alphabet soup of HDMI versions and handles it with aplomb while being the cleanest and most easy to use upscaler to 1080p that I've touched to date.
So, after having issues with HDCP handshakes, HDMI versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3a, and 1.3b not playing well with most autoswitching units--this product from DVDO does all of the above with aplomb.
Want to take your upscaling DVD player, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, TiVo HD, Wii, and more and mix and match audio inputs to a single optical output? Done.
Want them all at true 1080p (including your wee-little wii?) Done.
Want to get rid of the "Sugar/Mosquito-Noise/Sparkle issue from compression of your HD inbound signal? Nicely done.
Want to see everything pop better on your HD screen without looking artificially processed? Simply Done.
Want power-on priority for various units in your system (the TiVo comes before the Xbox 360, and the Denon 2930ci comes before the PS3?) Again, done and done well.
Add a simple remote, ability to tweak at will (should you even want to) and you have a massive winner of a product.
My biggest worry was any effect I'd have on speed of play with the game consoles--no issue... It not only has a game mode but takes Wii-Widescreen 480p and puts it out at a solid 1080p/60 and looks great doing it.
Films on Blu-Ray with 1080p/24 are stellar (minus the extra stars in the black sky from compression issues.)
All in, I heartily recommend this product--and you'll note that I am fairly even in pans, middling reviews, and OK product discussions, but rarely give a rave.
This is a rave and applause to the DVDO crew. Our household has two and counting now.
Great video processor By Charles D. Back
I have wanted to try a video processor in my system since I installed a Projectiondesign front projector about four years ago, which is being used with a 100" Stewart FireHawk screen. The scaling in the projector is adequate, but I've always thought that a high-end video processor would be able to deliver a better picture. The EDGE processor proves that I was right.
The EDGE has been in our system for several weeks now, and my wife and I love its performance. It was very simple to set up, and it makes a significant improvement to every source. We use the projector for a fair amount of television viewing (as opposed to just DVD or Blu-ray), so it does a lot of upscaling of DirecTV SD sources. As you might expect, the quality of the SD channels ranges somewhere between tolerable and miserable when viewed on the large screen, so we hoped to see improvement there. We were not disappointed, and in fact were genuinely surprised to see how much the EDGE improves SD image quality. Standard DVDs upscale very well, and are much more enjoyable than they were with just an upscaling DVD player. 1080i broadcasts are way better as well. Simply put, things are just sharper and clearer.
Perhaps the best endorsement comes from my wife, who wants things to look and sound better, but without a lot of tweaking. She spends more time watching movies than I do, with a mix of DVDs and DVR recordings, and she is very enthusiastic about the improvement EDGE makes. In particular, she wants me to mention how effective the mosquito noise reduction is.
As I said, it was easy to install, and it's simple to operate. It doesn't have the range of calibration controls that you might find in a processor that sells for four or five times its cost, but there is quite a bit of range for the basic video, aspect ratio and audio (delay) adjustments.
Another benefit of the EDGE is its six HDMI inputs. I wish that it had come out about a year earlier, as it would have made life a lot easier when I added HD-DVD and Blu-ray players to my system. I went through six different HDMI switchers before I found one that would work with all of my devices. Now I have a Radiient switcher that I no longer need, and I've even been able to eliminate some audio cables from the rack by feeding audio from source components to the EDGE over HDMI 1.3.
In conclusion, the EDGE is a great processor, especially for its price. I recommend it for anyone with an HDTV display - the bigger the screen, the more you'll appreciate it.
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