OSD Roadmap question: when will full PAL resolution be coming?

[braindelay]

I'm really sorry if this has been asked a million times before, but I couldn't find a roadmap that could give me an answer (I even searched bugzilla).

I'm looking into buying an OSD.  I have to put my 1,000 CDs up into the attic to make way for the new baby and I figured that if I was going to store my music on a NAS hanging off my router, I may as well go the whole hog and buy something that can play/record movies as well as just music.

Anyway, I read from the FAQ, and other places that the Neuros OSD doesn't render/record the 16:9 ratio, and that it has a maximum resolution of 672x448 (PAL, the way our european TV is broadcast, runs at 720 x 486 and , I think, 720x576 in widescreen).

So, my two questions:

• Am I wrong? Can it render widescreen and at a higher resolution?
• If not, is there a plan to do so, and if so, round about when? Would it be a newer version of the hardware, or would a future firmware update be able to deliver this?

Hmm, sorry about that: that was more than two questions.


Thanks.



from me,  daniel.

[greyback]

Hey,
OSD's max recording resolution is 640x512 I think. Yeah PAL is a higher res, so us Europeans suffer. I can't answer your question if/when 720x576 will be supported. Hopefully a Neuros staffer will oblige.

I thought standard 16:9 pictures are broadcast letterboxed in 4:3 format, and tvs upscale it to fill the screen. Am I wrong? If that's true, I'd imagine OSD would record the whole picture & not truncate the sides. But again I'm not sure. I'm sorry but I don't have a widescreen tv so I'm really not much help, just throwing yet another question on the pile!

Somehow in the deep cobwebbed recesses of my memory, a notion of OSD recording 720xSomething exists, perhaps in an old firmware. But it must be very old by now.
-G

[braindelay]

Actually, does Neuros publish their roadmap for the OSD? How do the O/S developers decide what to implement and when it gets into the product?

[Schmoo]

I thought standard 16:9 pictures are broadcast letterboxed in 4:3 format, and tvs upscale it to fill the screen. Am I wrong? If that's true, I'd imagine OSD would record the whole picture & not truncate the sides. But again I'm not sure. I'm sorry but I don't have a widescreen tv so I'm really not much help, just throwing yet another question on the pile!

I posted two images of 16:9 and 4:3 modes from my sky box in the

http://forums.neurostechnology.com/index.php?topic=8291.0

thread...  It shows the "extra" image pretty well, I think the extra image comes down seperate and gets stiched in the box (but then I could be wrong)...

Gordon.

[braindelay]

Right, the widescreen shouldn't be a problem: I think my TV c an be set to "zoom" as appropriate.

My other question is the one that worries me: is the current resolution upper limit fixed? Is it a limit imposed by the firmware (i.e. will a new update increase it) or is it a limit imposed by the hardware (i.e. no chance of this version ever rendering "full" television).

I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself, or someone else, but I've looked everywhere I can think of and I can't find an answer to this.