A/v Cables Have Arrived!

[kaprikawn]

I have a 720p TV (well, technically it's 768p, I think). When I plug it into my computer using DVI>VGA and set the resolution to my TVs native resolution I get terrible overscan on all sides. It cuts off a little more than the standard Win XP taskbar and the equivalent on the other edges too. The only way I was able to hook my comp up to my TV was to hook it up using DVI>HDMI and set a custom resolution lower than my TVs resolution (it was a while ago so I can't remember the resolution I used, something like 600p IIRC).

My question is why isn't this happening on the MWeston's vid? Is it because the Pandora is outputting a SD resolution and his TV is upscaling the image to fit the screen? Or is his TV just better than mine and doesn't overscan? Or is there something happening in software?

 

[Kimundi]

It depends on the Tv.
Also, you can usually compensate for the overscan issue in the graphic-driver

 

[Enverex]

One thing about my TV is that it has some weird organic scaling, it'll automatically enlarge or shrink the screen to make it fit on the fly (so it's not locked to certain sizes for certain res'). It's nice when something has a black border all the way around, it'll automatically scale it to get rid of it

 

[Prometheus]

The cables look *very* professional indeed (the logos on them are a lovely touch - this kind of reminded me of Nintendo's TV cabling ), and look to be very well-built. I'm really looking forward to receiving mine. (It'll also be great to have the line-in functionality - neither of my computers supports this, and I have a number of things that I'd like to record from with it. )

The video was fantastic, too - I like the fact that the displays mirrored each other, for some reason.

 

[Gusarapo]

Hello,

I have a question about this.
When you are using the video out with your TV, can you turn off the Pandora's screen?

If I am using the TV I don't need the Pandora's screen.

 

[gibberish]

Hello,

I have a question about this.
When you are using the video out with your TV, can you turn off the Pandora's screen?

If I am using the TV I don't need the Pandora's screen.

you might do for touch screen based stuff.
would be nice to turn it off when its not needed though, it'll of course be implemented.

 

[pelrun]

You can turn the backlight off, but I doubt you'll be able to turn the screen off fully.

(note that just having the backlight off is a big win power wise.)

 

[Kimundi]

Of course you can turn off the Lcd while running over Tv-Out, anything different would be... strange.
After all, it was confirmed that you can run two different Outputs to the Lcd and Tv-Out, meaning that they can be driven independly.

Just remember: Everytime you are unsure about a particular feature of the Pandora, ask yourself the Questions:
-Would a average Pc support the feature?
-Does the feature depend entirely on a Software Implementation?

If any of these can be answerd with 'Yes', then the Pandora should be able to do it.
Of course, whether the necessary Software is aviable at release is a completly different matter.

 

[droneb]

Or you could Completely Close the Panda's Lid. (that should have it Hardware Off doesnt it?), then you would have to plug a Keyboard and Mouse and/or USB Joystick.

 

[Kimundi]

You also don't need to close the Lid, the screen isn't hardwired to the Lid-Sensor (afaik ).
Lid-Sensor, Leds etc are directly connected to the gpios of the Omap, thus what happens if you close the lid is as follow:
1. The the OS registers the Lid is closed
2. Then it may chose to do somthing because of it, for example:
-shut off display and backlight
-turn the whole system into hibernation / suspend-to-ram / standby / shutdown mode
-play a sad tune because you stopped using it

The point is, it entirely depends on the programming, and with the whole system being open source, it can be changed freely.

 

[Azure]

Is there any video, interview or something where we can hear his voice?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MaIQYHd23A&feature=channel_page

 

[Etinin]

Why would someone want to hear MWeston's voice? Lol. (not wanting to take away any of his merit, but...)

 

[Squidge]

He's a major player in the Pandora, so people want to see pictures & voice samples. Blood and hair sample requests will probably come next

 

[elwing]

He's a major player in the Pandora, so people want to see pictures & voice samples. Blood and hair sample requests will probably come next

hum, that's a great idea, like that I'll be able to ask the Raelian to create for me my own MWeston clone

 

[WizardStan]

hum, that's a great idea, like that I'll be able to ask the Raelian to create for me my own MWeston clone

No need to dig through 8 layers of PCB to build a Pandora clone: just clone the designer of the board and get him to build you another from scratch. Because that's how cloning works.

 

[elwing]

hum, that's a great idea, like that I'll be able to ask the Raelian to create for me my own MWeston clone

No need to dig through 8 layers of PCB to build a Pandora clone: just clone the designer of the board and get him to build you another from scratch. Because that's how cloning works.

hum too bad... just realized that growing a MWeston will take longer than 2month...

 

[WhiteBat]

hey MWeston, what does this say?

"do not touch...something"

 

[droneb]

do i read Expensive?

 

[verm71]

Very nice. The kind of video test I'd also like to see is one where the SVideo output was directly captured, rather than recorded via another camera. Would that be possible?

 

[lulzfish]

I ran that image through a few passes of GIMP's Magical CSI Image Enhancer, and this is what I got: