Sorry, I made a guess about how much you knew about DV.
Profile 4: dual layer with a SDR base layer - rare in the wild
Profile 5: single layer as used by streaming services - incompatible with HDR10/BT2020 so we convert that to HDR10. Without the conversion, you would see purple and green colours.
Profile 7: dual layer with a HDR10 base layer (optionally with HDR10+ metadata) as found on Blu-rays. The second layer may be ‘FEL’ or ‘MEL’. These are played as HDR10/+ and Vero V ignores the second layer
Profile 8: single layer which is HDR10 or HLG compatible. Quality equivalent to Profile 7 MEL. Many rips you may find on the web are Profile 8 that have been converted from Blu-ray so they are playable on more devices (ie devices which can’t handle dual layer).
All other profile numbers are deprecated or experimental.
I assume that the update promise for the Vero V of five years has the targeted end date of 11/2028, can you confirm this?
I also noticed on the store page it says the device supports “Dynamic Refresh Rate adjustment”, I’m guessing this is something different from QMS since it’s not called that. Can you explain what the differences are and why QMS is not supported on the Vero V? I assume it’s cause there was no SoC with support for it available in your desired price range but I’m only guessing.
Correct. Dynamic Refresh Rate adjustment already runs on your Vero 4K. It’s important and syncs the video to your display.
I really wish it was just a case of buying the most expensive SoC on the market and sitting back and relaxing. Unfortunately that is not the case.
QMS and VRR (not quite the same thing) is still very new technology. It is not something we cannot support in the future on Vero V. When Vero 4K launched, we did not support HDR10+ or HLG. These features came later.
No – this is not a firm EOL.
This is soft EOL, so like Vero 4K which was promised it goes on for longer and we then upstream support. I kept Apple TV running a decade after Apple supported it, and that was not even my own product.
You’re already here so I think you made up your mind to buy Vero V
I’ve already told you the truth about long term support but I’ll put it in a different perspective.
Look at your shoes
Look at your TV
Look at your sofa
In seven years, you’ll have a new pair of shoes, TV and sofa.
But you’ll come home wearing a new pair of shoes, sit on a new sofa, watch on a new TV, powered by the same Vero.
Or not, because you can return it within 14 days of receipt for any reason for a full refund
The video signal the device outputs can be described in terms of resolution and refresh rate. For example, the desktop mode might be set to 1920x1080p refreshed at 50Hz, or perhaps refreshed at 60Hz. When playing a video, the output refresh rate changes to match the video frame rate. So a video taken from a blu ray might be 1080p resolution, with a frame rate of 23.976 frames per second. If the device plays that video, it will change its output video mode from 1080p/60Hz (or whatever) to 1080p/23.976Hz, so that each output frame directly corresponds to one frame of the original video. Not doing this compromises playback quality.
HDMI Quick Media Switching, as I understand it, is a way for a display to switch between different input refresh rates without the screen turning black for a couple of seconds during the switchover. This, as I understand it, is not supported. Whether Sam has any plans to support it in the future, I have no idea. But videos that switch frame rate in the middle of the video are quite unusual; so the only advantage would be avoiding a black screen for a couple of seconds when switching between the desktop and actual playback (or vice versa). If this concerns you, there’s an option in Kodi to introduce a delay when switching output modes, so that the video doesn’t start playing until the mode switch is complete.
I phrased this poorly but this is essentially what I was asking, that 11/2028 is not the guaranteed end of software support but it is the date up to which is being promised today. I’m only asking so specifically about this because the software and the support period, rather than the hardware, is essentially the product.
I’m considering it but no, I’ve not made up my mind. I have Zidoo Z9X so I have a hard time justifying a switch to myself, but I’ll keep an eye on the next sale being at least.
The software is not the product – it’s what we give away.
You can get OSMC for free tomorrow (Download - OSMC). Obviously you need hardware, but you can use OSMC software without giving us a penny. But you can run it on hardware that we don’t sell, i.e. Raspberry Pi.
I bought my Vero 4K+ about 6 years ago,and it still serves me well.But now that the Vero V is available,I’ll transfer my beloved 4K+ to the bedroom and get the Vero V for my living room…
In 2018,I had to choose between the Vero 4K+ and the Nvidia Shield…never regretted my choice for the 4K+…
