Quote:It's really concerning that there's still no 60fps to 50Hz conversion without stuttering.
You mean refresh rate switching, right?
Even with the display refreshing at 60Hz and the deinterlacer only doing half motion, the result is quite pleasing on the Sony with some Motionflow engaged when playing interlaced PAL, much better than with any other half motion deinterlacer/motion interpolator I have ever seen before.
Quote:I realized there's no real reason to buy the ATV2 platform.
Sony is already using "ATV3" in their Master Series (AF9/ZF9), see
here. ATV2 is almost 3 years old. No point in updating to that anymore, and has probably never been. The processor is just slow and it leaves to be seen whether MediaTek/Sony/Philips will move to Project Treble on that platform with Oreo (which Sony/MediaTek at least did for ATV3). Otherwise the future does not look too bright for ATV1 (MT5890) and ATV2 (MT5891).
Philips still uses MT5891 (ATV2) on their latest OLED803/903.
Quote:and a nVidia Shield which, from what I'm reading, supports a bunch of features including 7.1 passthrough.
A box is probably a better solution as it uses the HDMI forward channel to output audio rather than the return channel (ARC/eARC). Even though first TVs with eARC are slowly surfacing, I wouldn't trust their capabilities with respect to passthrough via apps, see current Sony and Philips TVs.
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