@deans6571 wrote:
As soon as 720p is ticked, this is the default resolution even if 1080 and 2160 are also ticked.
From my testing with the V6 box today, it would seem that it's not just 720p downscaling that's the problem. The box will output always the lowest "HD" mode selected, whatever is playing, so yes if I have 720p ticked in addition to other modes, I ONLY get 720p output, even when watching BBCHD (for example, which should be 1080i), but also when using the iPlayer app and watching the new 4K HDR trial video. Similarly, if I DON'T tick 720p, but still have 1080i ticked, I get 1080i for BBCHD, but also 1080i for BBC iPlayer 4K HDR trial. The only way to get 4K is to force 4K mode all the time, and even then I'm not convinced that 4K trial is really playing a 4K resolution image (the TV's built in YouTube app playing 4K content looks WAY sharper up close).
Is it too much to ask the VM could fix the firmware to allow the box to pass through the video in its native format and allow our expensive TVs to do the scaling that they're probably MUCH better at (leaving aside the fact that there's no hope of any HLG or any other such data getting passed through to the TV if the V6 box insists on passing everything through its scaler).
