Image enhancement features

[nagus]

Does the Xtreamer support any image/video enhancement features like Upscaling, Deinterlacing etc. which most modern dvd and bluray player supports? I was just wondering how well the Xtreamer can output e.g. a standard DVD movie compared to my panasonic s-52 DVD player.

[funtasticguy]

This is a good question. I'm curious too.

[Ivor Hardy]

Curious about this one myself,was just about to buy a Popcorn Hour A110 until i saw this device holding off now think the Xtreamer wil suit me better..(Still need to see a review before i take the plunge). It's causing quite a stir on the NMT website ahead of their new model specs being released on Monday...

[XtreamerAdmin]

Does the Xtreamer support any image/video enhancement features like Upscaling, Deinterlacing

Yes it can. You have to remember that Realtek chipsets are usually a lot better at handling the picture quality than Sigma products. And the Xtreamer runs on a very special chip indeed.

[nagus]

very cool!! I've hoped you would say that

could you please tell us a little more about this image enhancement features? does it support mpg nois reduction and deblocking as well?

thanks in advance

[daniel_owen_uk]

Does the Xtreamer support any image/video enhancement features like Upscaling, Deinterlacing

Yes it can. You have to remember that Realtek chipsets are usually a lot better at handling the picture quality than Sigma products. And the Xtreamer runs on a very special chip indeed.

That's a BOLD statement given that sigma has been the choice for the last, 2-3 generations of media extender.

I asked before but do you have any benchmarks or samples that can prove the realtek's advantage over the sigma chips?

[NeilF]

I asked before but do you have any benchmarks or samples that can prove the realtek's advantage over the sigma chips?

I'd like to know even just the speed the Realtek chip.

eg: The old Sigma ones were basically 333mhz, and the new ones are 666mhz... What's the Realtek?

[Phileas]

I asked before but do you have any benchmarks or samples that can prove the realtek's advantage over the sigma chips?

I'd like to know even just the speed the Realtek chip.

eg: The old Sigma ones were basically 333mhz, and the new ones are 666mhz... What's the Realtek?

That would be useful information to know...

Regards
Phileas

[nicks88]

I asked before but do you have any benchmarks or samples that can prove the realtek's advantage over the sigma chips?

I'd like to know even just the speed the Realtek chip.

eg: The old Sigma ones were basically 333mhz, and the new ones are 666mhz... What's the Realtek?

The clock speed of a chip is not as important as the optimisation. I don't think the question of whether the Realtek source code would be made available was answered on another thread. I presume that it won't be made publicly available - but if the xtreamer devs have their hands on it, they could have potentially made some very nifty changes to the way the processing is handled by the chip.

[NeilF]

I asked before but do you have any benchmarks or samples that can prove the realtek's advantage over the sigma chips?

I'd like to know even just the speed the Realtek chip.

eg: The old Sigma ones were basically 333mhz, and the new ones are 666mhz... What's the Realtek?

The clock speed of a chip is not as important as the optimisation. I don't think the question of whether the Realtek source code would be made available was answered on another thread. I presume that it won't be made publicly available - but if the xtreamer devs have their hands on it, they could have potentially made some very nifty changes to the way the processing is handled by the chip.

Well, unless there is some onboard hardcoded processing that can help with jpgs etc, then it will come down to raw processing power to display a jpg. I've asked in another thread if there is any specific onboard features to aid with jpgs, but that's another thread that's not been 'visited'... so we have no idea...