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redThing/blueThing Firmware

 

V2.04 - 2nd May 2008

 

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Revision history

 

V2.04 - 2nd May 2008

 

redThing and blueThing updates:

1. Minor bug fixes for TSL V4.0 and V3.1 TallyMan protocol support.

 

V2.03 - 23rd April 2008

 

redThing and blueThing updates:

1. Full UMD functionality now included.  Supports TSL V4.0 and V3.1 TallyMan protocol.

 

V2.02 - 14th February 2008

 

redThing and blueThing updates:

1. No longer shows safe area markers when in pulse-cross mode
2. Safe area marker positioning corrected for SD inputs
3. UMD text on web page no longer truncated
4. Support for extended character sets for European languages added
5. Network code modified for better reliability regarding ARP requests

 

V2.01 - 19th November 2007

 

redThing and blueThing updates:

1. Bug introduced in 2.00 firmware which results in horizontal shudder of output image for progressive inputs has been fixed.
2. Bug introduced in 2.00 firmware which swaps left and right channels on SPDIF output has been fixed.

3. When +/- buttons are used to force device to default IP configuration this change now over writes currently stored IP settings. When this feature is now used unit will retain the default IP configuration until it is changed by user, even if unit is reset or power is removed from unit.

4. Firmware update procedure improved to make more resilient.

 

V2.00 - 12th October 2007

 

redThing and blueThing updates:

1. Fan control improved.
2. High temperature restart failure fixed.
3. Start up menu button RGB/DVI toggle mended.
4. White balance RGB (i.e. gain) controls added.
5. Pulse cross feature added.
6. Upgrader now able to recover from failed upgrade.

7. Picture positioning uses extra EDID data when in monitor mode.
8. Acknowledgement sent to applet when browser push button is pressed.
9. Re-wrote EDID handling to cope with no minimum monitor rate data block.
10. New IP stack improves Ethernet communication/web browser interface reliability.
11. On-screen menus put in same order as web control pages.
12. Local control enable/disable added to web interface (and reported on status page).
13. No caching now for all web pages.
14. IP settings remembered through an upgrade process.
15. Basic UMD controls added.
16. Horizontal filter modified to avoid narrow banding on sharp transitions.

17. Improved SD up-scaling.

18. Improved SD vertical filtering.

 

blueThing only updates:

1. Audio extractor supports SMPTE 299M-2004 (i.e. works with less than 50Hz frame rate on 720P).
2. Auto recovery for out of spec embedded phase words (for 48K source) added.
3. Audio delay feature added.

 

V1.11 - 18th September 2007

1. Minor layout change to status page of web interface

 

V1.10 - 19th May 2007

1. Independent RGB Black balance (brightness) controls added.

2. On-screen display menus update automatically to changes made via the web browser interface.

3. Web browser interface updates automatically to changes made using the on-screen display.

4. New Web browser layout includes status page plus a few minor format changes have been made.

5. Stability improvements.

 

V1.00 - 3rd April 2007

1. Corrects rise time of SD SDI loop out.
2. Corrects missing top line in some formats.
3. Corrects last pixel error.
4. Adds operation at 1080SF23.98 & 1080SF24 (60Hz output).
5. Improved YCbCr matrix to reduce ringing when viewing large chroma transitions.

6. Corrected initialisation error regarding 'auto' display mode if no monitor was connected at power-up.

7. Disabled the initial pop-up message 'press enter to activate control' on web browser.

 

V0.8
1. Improved vertical aperture.
2. Improved network robustness.
3. Fixed intermittent de-interlace polarity error.

 

V0.4

Initial production release.

     
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