Many thanks in advance. AA is larger than 8B You will probably find that your current firmware is 1. Thanks kindly for your help. Jump to. About the Forum The Beyonwiz Forum was established in as a place for the Beyonwiz User Community to hang out and discuss all the highs and lows of their Beyonwiz PVR, hopefully more towards the high side. Join us. Features The DP-P2 is intended to be an all-in media box; part TiVo, part media centre streaming box, with a dabble in home photography to boot.
Beyonwiz claims that this is good enough for up to 40 hours of HD broadcasts, or one hours of SD. Owners of the DP-P1, or Beyonwiz's other PVR boxes will find that they can also stream files to and from each Beyonwiz box quite simply, which would be one simple way to extend your recording times.
Beyonwiz touts this feature quite prominently, pointing out that you can pause and rewind up to two hours worth of Pay TV signal, as well as schedule recordings, although the practical truth is a little less endearing than it first sounds. More on that shortly. We know why the commercial broadcasters hate this feature — but it's the exact same reason that viewers love it.
Performance Setting up the DP-P2 was moderately painless, although because we were connecting via HDMI, we did have to skip through a number of other pre-set video modes before we could begin configuration properly. On the network streaming side, Beyonwiz hasn't really reinvented the wheel here, and it shows. If you're familiar with older Beyonwiz units, you'll be on familiar ground with the DP-P2, and that's both a good and bad thing. The company hasn't changed its basic, somewhat geeky file browser at all, and this means you're still in slightly clunky territory.
It's nothing that you can't overcome with a bit of determination, but then again, this is an entertainment product, and the pursuit of less effort should be at the top of any GUI designer's notebook. In addition, it can use this socket, or the one to the straight back, to learn a broad range of digital music or video files. If you use any of these USB sockets to connect a fixed disk drive, you can archive your recordings to it, expanding the powerful capacity of the unit's integrated drive.
There's also an Ethernet interface, so that the Beyonwiz DP-P2 may be plugged into a home computer network. When you do accordingly, you can utilize it to play back media files music from shared videos, photos and folders on your computer, or really from other Beyonwiz devices also in the network. Now it's even easier, because IceTV moreover provides its 'Interactive' service, by which you can program your recordings from just about any browser including the iPhone -- see news panel p And rather than days and recording specific times, you can tell the system to record named shows for you, and they'll be recorded no matter when they appear.
Setting up the DP-P2 was easy. There is a helpful semi-auto function, as well as the normal auto scan for TV stations, enabling you to really specify a range of channels to scan. Should you understand what these are in your place, you may be able to save a good little bit of time. The TV reception within the test area was powerful; it just would not allow me to down.
Nevertheless the Dolby Digital sound tended to drop out, at the very least when delivered around HDMI, which means you may need to parallel the connection to your gear with a digital audio one. You still get by default - - - you can switch it off a live buffer that you can rewind live TV for up to two hours. You still get well thought-out 'trick' playback modes, for example skipping about your file. There is also a range of other functions that have been fed slowly to the Beyonwiz line as part of the company's on-going firmware upgrade program.
For instance, a few months ago a quite strong 'bookmark' feature was included with the Beyonwiz variety through a free firmware upgrade. One thing that still has not changed is the inferior video performance over HDMI with standard-definition TV, as a result of low quality deinterlacing the machine supplies. That this is in accordance with nearly all other HD PVRs is actually no reason not to have taken this chance, together with the release of a new version, to provide decent performance.
Aside from archiving old videos, the apparent use of the external recording capabilities of the unit will be to time-shift Foxtel, without the need to use the Foxtel IQ. No selector for the AV input has been added to the remote control, but the 'List' key on the remote brings up an onscreen list of all the available stations.
The system appears to take care of this external input the same as its internal tuners, not merely when it comes to listing it as just another station, but in addition with recording. You don't get a choice about the 'quality' to use in the recordings. I recorded a minute section from DVD via S-Video and then transferred it over to my computer via the network connection.
This came to about MB of file size, comparable to a bit rate of around 3MB per second. That is towards the bottom of the product range of bitrates that you see on DVDs. That video segment contained a fair amount of movement, which can make demands on lossy compression systems.
So I replicated the process with a static picture and that didn't make a great deal of difference, reducing the number of info by simply. Low bitrates or not, the grade of the recording was excellent. With one exception, there was no difference at all that I could see between the foundation delivered as S-Video, since that is what the Beyonwiz was recording and also the recording it self and that was examining the pictures critically on a large front projection screen using a total high definition projector.
Black and - white graduation was consistent, as were colour and picture sharpness. There have been no visible artefacts. This was a remarkable performance for this new and practical recording function. The single problem, which might or may not bother you, was that the procedure somehow transformed the aspect ratio of the initial source somewhat. The recorded video was the same height as the original, but not quite as wide.
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