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wiiija
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Whats the general consensus on color space with the shield, I'm struggling to to find the best choice with my TV (Panasonic 50DX700), I know I'm probably opening a can of worms by asking but I'm going around in circles trying to figure out the best choice
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wiiija
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Thank you, yeh I guess switching depending on the source is the best idea, I mainly watch HDR material I've got it set to YCbCr 4:2:0 10-bit Rec. 2020 at the moment, no idea if it's the best or worst choice, so many to choose from!
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wesk05
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Barring a few devices, all of them seem to do internal processing in YCbCr. It is much easier to manipulate luminance and chroma with YCbCr. It used to be that if you could change brightness/contrast on a display when the input signal is RGB, you could say that the internal processing is in YCbCr. With the newer SoCs used in displays these days, it has become difficult to draw this conclusion. If the manufacturer doesn't specify what the internal processing is, it is almost not possible to test for it in any meaningful way.
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Don't know if this is the right place to ask but I couldn't really find any specific forum for this...
After the last SPMC update the Nvidia controller stopped working in SPMC, the only button working after I have started SPMC is the "home"-button.
Anyone have a clue as how to solve this?
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news about HDCP 2.2 issue in the HDMI 1.4 chain?
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Hi all,
I've just ordered a Shield Pro and I have a few questions I'd like to have answers to before setting things up.
This will replace a dedicated Windows 7 Home Theater PC running Kodi Krypton, using the Amber skin. The Shield will connect via HDMI to a Denon AVR (HDCP 2.2 compliant, with appropriate cables), and will feed a 4k/HDR TV. I am very familiar with the Kodi interface, but not the Shield. Questions, then:
1) My media is stored in two locations: A NAS server in the basement, and two hard drives on my existing HTPC, which will be moved to a different room for a second TV. I'm guessing that adding a NAS share will be easy enough since it's NFS, but how can I add paths to the Windows based NTFS-formatted drive(s) across the LAN? The internal 500 GB HDD won't be nearly enough storage space for my media (I'm around 6 TB between all my devices).
2) Can I upscale my existing 720p and 1080i/p content to 4k using the Shield? Before answering, my TV has horrible upscaling natively. My Denon AVR also upscales, and I'm running my cable box through it, hence the scaler is turned on in the AVR.
3) Should I be running Krypton, Jarvis or SPMC on this new box? Will all my existing things like the Amber skin and add-ons function the same on the Shield as they do on the Windows PC with Krypton, and do I get this from the Play Store or do I have to side-load? I've heard conflicting things and this is all VERY new and strange to me.
4) If I want to watch Netflix or Amazon with the NVidia, do I have to drop out of Kodi entirely then use the Shield's UI to do these functions, or can they be integrated into the Kodi interface? I'm looking for a very simple wife-and-kids friendly solution here.
5) Anything else I should know when migrating to this platform? Please and thanks.