EDGE
DVDO EDGE
High Definition Video Processor & Hub
Product Manual Supplement
for Firmware Release 1.1
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Table of Contents
Section 1: About this Supplement 3
Section 2: What’s new in EDGE Firmware Release 1.1? 3
Section 3: How to Update Firmware for your DVDO EDGE 4
Updating EDGE Firmware using a PC 6
Updating EDGE Firmware using a Macintosh Computer 7
Section 4: Advanced Controls 8
Test Patterns 9
1:1 Frame Rate 10
Safe Mode 11
Underscan 12
Output Color Space 12
Output Colorimetry 13
Output Video Level 14
Input Video Level 15
PReP 16
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Section 1: About this Supplement
This manual provides supplemental information for DVDO EDGE configured with Firmware version 1.1. It does not replace the EDGE
Product Manual.
Section 2: What’s new in EDGE Firmware Release 1.1?
EDGE Firmware v1.1 is the result of 2+ months of development and testing beyond the original v1.0 firmware what is currently shipping.
This firmware release is recommended to all EDGE owner because it makes EDGE a more robust, and compatible product. In addition, it
adds a number of improvements and advanced new features to EDGE:
• Improves compatibility and performance with inputs Video Game Consoles
• Improves compatibility with inputs from computers, including Home Theater Personal Computers
• Improves HDCP related display compatibility
• Reduces blue screen flashing when switching inputs
• Improved input switching
• Doubles granularity of all picture controls
• Improves the performance of Mosquito Noise Reduction
• Performs automatic Chroma Upsampling Error Correction (CUE)
• Info button enters and exits info screens (did not exit in v1.0)
• Adds a “Advanced Controls” selection to the “Settings” Menu including these new features:
- 35 test patterns which are automatically sized for the output format with correct colorimetry.
- 1:1 Frame Rate feature, allows output frame rate to track input, for users who play both 50Hz and 60Hz video
- Fail Safe Mode, uses Guide button to restore picture if display blanks due to 1:1 Frame Rate
- Output Color Space: choose between RGB, YCbCr 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:2:2
- Output Colorimetry: choose between ITU.601 or ITU.709 color standards, or let EDGE choose automatically
- Output Video Level: choose between Video Levels, or Computer Levels, or let EDGE choose automatically
- Input Video Level: choose between Video Levels, or Computer Levels, or let EDGE choose automatically
- PReP Control: lets user’s disable PReP, or let EDGE enable PReP automatically
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Section 3: How to Update Firmware for your DVDO EDGE
To update EDGE firmware, you will need the following items:
1. An internet connected PC or Macintosh computer.
2. A USB to Mini USB cable as shown in the photo below. This cable is commonly used to connect digital cameras to computers.
3. A tool for pressing the reset button on EDGE. A straightened paper clip as shown in the photo below will work.
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Note about Firmware Updates
A firmware update will reset EDGE to its factory default state. If you want to save any of the menu settings you have made, you should write
them down before you update the firmware, so that you can restore them after you update the firmware.
Connect EDGE to your computer
The smaller connector on the Mini-USB cable will connect on the back of EDGE. Next to the Mini-USB connector, there is a little hole; the
RESET button is inside that hole. The Reset Button and the Mini-USB connector are shown in the photo below.
Mini-USB Connector
Reset Button
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