2015-10-08, 00:01
A quick post with some positive feedback:
1) I've been having problems with OpenElec and black levels. The old OE used in the Plex Home Theater bundle worked fine out of the box (OE 3.2.4 found here: http://plexrpms.markwalker.dk/OpenELEC/3.2/), but nothing with Kodi was working (Current stable or beta versions). Not sure of the difference between packaging. However, I found this thread and was able to eventually fix my problems after loading up the passthrough version that was recently released along with some fine tuning with my projector's brightness setting.
2) Speaking of my projector, the dithering setting helps with banding like nothing I've ever seen. I have to use a dithering setting of 6 for it to clear up banding, but this has always been a significant issue I've had until now. What are the tradeoffs of dithering? Should I try to live with 7 or 8, or can I keep it dialed in to 6 without losing quality somewhere else?
1) I've been having problems with OpenElec and black levels. The old OE used in the Plex Home Theater bundle worked fine out of the box (OE 3.2.4 found here: http://plexrpms.markwalker.dk/OpenELEC/3.2/), but nothing with Kodi was working (Current stable or beta versions). Not sure of the difference between packaging. However, I found this thread and was able to eventually fix my problems after loading up the passthrough version that was recently released along with some fine tuning with my projector's brightness setting.
2) Speaking of my projector, the dithering setting helps with banding like nothing I've ever seen. I have to use a dithering setting of 6 for it to clear up banding, but this has always been a significant issue I've had until now. What are the tradeoffs of dithering? Should I try to live with 7 or 8, or can I keep it dialed in to 6 without losing quality somewhere else?