Would like a little more info on "artifacts that some may consider objectionable" for HD and specifically Roku 3 - please elaborate. Does it work?
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I bought this specifically for the Roku 3, connecting it to my 720p/1080i projector, and there are no compression, motion video or any other artifacts. The video quality is great at 120".
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My projector only shows 1080i or 720p. I don't see any artifacts in my picture, which looks wonderful.
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Component Video on my TV is only 1080i. Tried the 1080P resolution on my Roku 3 got blank screen, switched Roku 3 resolution from 1080P to 720P and got Roku 3 to work in component mode on my TV.
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My SD DVDs did not look good either. The upconversion to 1080p cause the picture to "jitter" slightly, but noticeably. I went to "video output settings, selected hdmi (which are the cables I am using), manually set the output to 1080i....and the problem completely went away. My SD DVDs now look as well as they did on my old players.
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Hi, there exists specific builds of XBMC (media center) for this hardware, allowing watching HD videos smoothly. You can find further informations and .apk files on dedicated forum at http://androidtvbox.us. You can look for instance at http://androidtvbox.us/topic/built-xbmc-pivos-for-ya-all/. Regards.
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You can see and browse, but so far I always get corrupt video errors when trying to stream anything. Works fine on my PS3, but would still like to see it work on the BluRay downstairs too!
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Roku 3 has some sort of security protection for the movie industry which doesn't allow conversion to component or composite video elements. The sound will be fine but no picture. To prove this get some other HDMI source (like a DVD player) and feed via the converter into your TV and you will see it works.
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Pixelation = artefacts?Latest Update installed on TV, sorce connected via HDMI and watching either in 'Professional' or 'THX' Mode I cannot recongnize any artefacts. Do you see 'pixelation' only when watching TV channels via cable box? How is the picture when watching BluRays or DVDs?
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Isnt that a shame? so you're saying that it will look grainy on any blue ray player? I wouldve thought any encoding problem wouldve been fixed by now, i mean 300 just came out on blue ray.Do stores offer refunds or something? Have you tried a different blue ray? or a different TV? Im going to take mine to my friends house and test it on his LCD TV.thxThank you.
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I am not an expert, but according to the roku charts - the roku 3 can only be used with HD tvs and the roku 2 can be used with any tvs.
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Thanks for the feedback. I bought this model. Love it so far. Beautiful picture on HD cable and no TOC problems...yet. Will follow up if I have any.
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Just wanted to put my two cents in too! I just received mine last night - I have a 3 TB hard drive connected to it - I got it because not all tvs (or game systems) play all the different movie formats - this thing plays them all - I am VERY IMPRESSED, and based on the fact of seeing two USB ports I'm positive I can hook up another hard drive (the cartoon one for the kids). There wasn't any lag works perfect. If they ever add more options to the home menu that would be a bonus!
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I will try this when I get home (I'm almost 100% positive that it will work :-)). I'm seeing the same problem in my blueray home theatre system. Thanks for sharing the resolution.
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I am not sure just what a Roku is, but is its probably a digtial system using HDMI outputs, this unit handles Analog only, so I don't think it is going to work
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It will stream at the resolution of the source.I double-checked by watching a minute or two of a blu-ray quality movie on my 1920x1200 monitor, but didn't see any scaling artifacts.
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Hi, there. Quite frankly, this item was placed in my closet not too long after I purchased it. Afraid it didn't seem very compatible or useful and I can't recommend it or even answer you question (I say that because Amazon sent me a not asking if I could). I really seemed nothing more than a very limited hard drive. I much prefer the roku or my teradrive I have attached to my mac mini.
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HDCP works fine on mine, the only dip I remember setting was the far left one to the down position. Sometimes when tv first turns on takes a sec for HDCP to resolve, beyond that its just worked.
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Our problem has been our roku was taking an unusual time to retrieve our movie. We thought if we unplugged it and or reset it maybe that would help. When we contacted Roku they recommended an adapter, but this hasn't helped at all. We can't even get the light to come back on from the box itself now. Does anyone have any suggestions. We wrote back to Roku support a couple of days ago and haven't heard anything yet.
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I have XMBC (frodo build) installed on my EB1503 (as I use the box as a media server) it has no problems with any of the HD audio associated with video codecs (DTS & Dolby TrueHD). I've never tried streaming from an online source (as I only have DSL). My audio/video goes over HDMI to my Onkyo TX-NR608. My experience would say that it is your decoding software having problems, not the EB1503 hardware.