Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:01 am
I'm still waiting on other posts to make it past moderation (the week long delay is awesome), but here's the latest anyway, as of 1st July 2018 11:15pm UMT....
I did lodge a support request with Blackmagic a week ago, to find out if they had plans to update the EDID at any point, and they embarrassed themselves with this little nugget....
"The customer is mistaken about how EDID actually works. EDID lets the source that is an input, for example a DVD player, tell the device that it is connected to, a TV, what format the TV should set itself to."
When I queried the job position of the person that said this, (I wasn't actually allowed to talk to anyone at Blackmagic, I had to relay the whole conversation through a third-party in Australia), I was informed that they were an engineer at Blackmagic. I seriously doubt that this is true, given the lack of understanding of what I feel is fairly basic vision technology.
I was also told that "we have no plans to change the way we do EDID."
I've been working on trying to flash a custom EDID with 1080p/60 being the preferred setting, using a linux box with the edid-rw package. Unfortunately, despite being able to read and dump the EDID from the TVS, I can't flash it back. I get no write errors, but whatever I flash back to it gets ignored.
So they've clearly gone for a more complex setup than an EEPROM sitting behind an i2c bus like you'd see in most TVs or display panels.
So at this point, I think I'll give up.
This unit can sit in my warehouse as an emergency reserve, and I'll just stick with Analog Way switchers.
@Andrew Martin:
YUV 1080p60 is a perfectly acceptable broadcast standard, whatever its original source device is. Someone at Blackmagic obviously agrees, because they recently changed the preferred setting on the micro-converters to 1080p60. My hope was that they would do the same for the TVS, but I'm told they aren't. That said, the person who told me this obviously has little to no understanding of the technology, so I take their words with a grain of salt.