Thought I'd post my current problems with the 921 just in case they have not been reported elsewhere yet. A few of these are well known, but I think I found a few that are not well known about 720p DVI-D output.
1) Obvious one. The OTA tuner is really having problems. On my system, attempting to use it almost always causes the receiver to crash. Also in my attempts to get the tuner to detect all my digital channels, I was rotating the antenna alot and ran Scan DTV more than once. This has corrupted the channel listing database such that I ended up with multiple copies of the same digital channels. When I attempted to delete all the detected channels to start with a clean slate, some of the channels remained are were not deletable. When I exited the menu and came back in, the channels I couldn't delete were now blank boxes with no channel names. I then added the DTV channels back in and the empty boxes became duplicates of the first few channels I put back in. Doing a full system restore to factory defaults did not get rid of these phantom channels either. So as it is now, I got channel entries that I cannot delete and the OTA tuner cannot be used without crashing the box.
2) Onscreen menu video overlays do not work right. On all the onscreen menus where there is a video window in the upper right hand corner for a video overlay, the video is not in the box. Its shifted over to the left such that inside the video box its clipped on the left with a black bar to the right of the video.
3) DVI-D at 720p output is not centered correctly. I use a Benq PE8700 HDTV projector with DVI-D HDCP input. This is easily noticable when using the normal aspect to display a SD channel. The black bar on the left of the video is way bigger than the black bar on the right of the video. On HD channels like Discovery HD, the HD image fills the entire screen however the right side of the image is cropped off. I can tell because the station logos on the right of the screen are getting chopped. This is really apparent on our local HD FOX channel as well (when I get OTA to work) in which the FOX logo is almost entirely chopped off on the right side.
This is all I found so far. The big ones for me are to fix the OTA and the chopped fullscreen video. Its really annoying to have my image cropped and offcenter. I will post images of the offcentered video tonight.
-Jerry
1) Obvious one. The OTA tuner is really having problems. On my system, attempting to use it almost always causes the receiver to crash. Also in my attempts to get the tuner to detect all my digital channels, I was rotating the antenna alot and ran Scan DTV more than once. This has corrupted the channel listing database such that I ended up with multiple copies of the same digital channels. When I attempted to delete all the detected channels to start with a clean slate, some of the channels remained are were not deletable. When I exited the menu and came back in, the channels I couldn't delete were now blank boxes with no channel names. I then added the DTV channels back in and the empty boxes became duplicates of the first few channels I put back in. Doing a full system restore to factory defaults did not get rid of these phantom channels either. So as it is now, I got channel entries that I cannot delete and the OTA tuner cannot be used without crashing the box.
2) Onscreen menu video overlays do not work right. On all the onscreen menus where there is a video window in the upper right hand corner for a video overlay, the video is not in the box. Its shifted over to the left such that inside the video box its clipped on the left with a black bar to the right of the video.
3) DVI-D at 720p output is not centered correctly. I use a Benq PE8700 HDTV projector with DVI-D HDCP input. This is easily noticable when using the normal aspect to display a SD channel. The black bar on the left of the video is way bigger than the black bar on the right of the video. On HD channels like Discovery HD, the HD image fills the entire screen however the right side of the image is cropped off. I can tell because the station logos on the right of the screen are getting chopped. This is really apparent on our local HD FOX channel as well (when I get OTA to work) in which the FOX logo is almost entirely chopped off on the right side.
This is all I found so far. The big ones for me are to fix the OTA and the chopped fullscreen video. Its really annoying to have my image cropped and offcenter. I will post images of the offcentered video tonight.
-Jerry
