About
Serial Digital is a dedicated resource for video-related topics; covering broadcast and consumer video technologies, methods, and formats, as well as presentation AV and web compression and technologies. In such a fast-changing industry, the site aims to encourage a collaborative approach to sharing information.
Author, Steven Wylie has been working with video and IT for several years, and currently works as a content producer and technical director on large scale corporate events throughout Australia. Steve has a strong passion for video and new media formats, and enjoys promoting and utilizing related technologies. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Steve is available for freelance projects throughout the country.
Steve’s company, Evolved HD, specialises in engineering and operating complex vision systems, as well as production of creative on-screen content for corporate presentations.
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#1 by Michael on August 13, 2009 - 11:55 am
Hi guys…
just want to thank you for making your expertise available, duly noted…
errm, name’s Michael, i am a youth pastor of a growing organisation/youth group and I’m in need of an edge blending software that isn’t too expensive or complex…
i want to make our projection system somewhat extravagant, mammoth and impressive.
Our budget possibly is between $500 and $2000…. we also aim to use normal high street consumer projectors… projectors costing between $500 and $1000
We’re actually based in the UK, but we used dollars for understanding. However if you can direct us to a UK supplier, we would be very grateful…
who knows I may even pray for you…
thanks again…
Michael
#2 by Tom Moffatt on May 23, 2010 - 3:56 am
Found your comments on HDCP interesting. I am trying to solve an issue at work. Connecting a new Macbook Pro with a min-display to HDMI – it works great with a long line to a Panasonic AE4000U projector, going directly. But colours go weird when I connect hdmi via the Yamaha RXV465 amplifier/tuner. Haven’t solved the problem yet. Had wondered if HDCP was the issue, even though no copy-protected disc was involved. – tom moffatt, NB, Canada
#3 by Steve Wylie on May 23, 2010 - 11:15 am
Hi Tom,
Thanks for reading! Yes, your problem is most likely exactly the same as I describe – because HDCP searches the HDMI signal path for HDCP compatible devices, it will have noticed that either your projector or your receiver is HDCP compatible, but the other isn’t – so the MacBook (in order to comply with HDCP specification) disables/blanks the output.
We have had some success circumventing this problem in the professional AV environment by using a device call the DVI Detective from Gefen. You install this immediately after your MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Pro will no longer see the other devices in the signal path, so it will no longer blank the output when it sees that one device supports HDCP and another does not.
The only down side to using a DVI Detective is that the signal chain will NOT be HDCP compliant – which means that you will not be able to play Blu-ray discs, or any other content that relies on HDCP.
#4 by ranvier on August 2, 2010 - 12:41 am
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