Quick video of new M-Class GUI

[eschmidt]

Just a quick video showing the new gui.
We have had a player for sometime and think the BD and DVD performance is nothing short of amazing.
Will update with some more shots soon.

[AnOutsider]

just watched it, appreciated, but a bit weird haha.

You mentioned the speed of cover art view, but didn't show any movement. You mentioned that BR movie playback initialization is slow and kscape is working on cutting the time in half, but then you jumped right into saying how fast it was -- unless you were comparing it to other BR players?

Anywho, cool video, more for pitching to customers than actually a demo, but still appreciated

[cinelife]

Regarding the initialization/playback speed, I found the speed to be very fast compared to all other Blu-ray Players I've owned/tested. Once the movie is imported, and the disc is in the tray, selecting Play the movie from either the "list" or "covers" view results in about a 2-3 second start time (didn't time it, but I will). Maybe they are trying to improve on that(?), not sure, but that's more than acceptable to me.


Jim

[eschmidt]

Guys sorry for the embedded issues, cant edit the post

[josh]

It's fixed... see above now for the video.

[JerryL]

Awesome can't wait to see later- on iPad right now. 2-3 sec startup would be amazing compared to normal br machines.

[brodricj]

But what's the startup time for a cold start for playback from the disc when it hasn't been imported to the server? Maybe that's what K is working on, to halve that time.

[cinelife]

Give the post above, I decided to re-test the timing. I've got some clarification, and an apology. I'm not sure when, how, or why we recorded 2-3 seconds start time after selecting "Play Movie" from the usual K screen, but that is not the case based on what I just tested here. It is in my notes, but it is not correct. I just tested two methods, 1. New (non-imported) BR disc (Harry Potter), and 2. Already imported Lord of the Rings (LOTR) Fellowship...

I first timed the playback on the Sony and Denon BR players, from Harry Potter disc inserted, to the time the FBI warning appeared on screen. These were 42 and 39 seconds, respectively. I then did the same with Potter in the M500, and got 16 seconds to the K OSD "disc in tray" screen, and an additional 22 seconds after selecting "Play Disc" (note: the "Play Movie" option was not available) before seeing content on screen.

I then placed the LOTR BR in the M500 tray (interestingly, the system knows when a disc has already been imported and does not bring up the usual "disc in tray, what do you want to do prompt," in fact, inserting the disc does nothing on screen). If you want to work the disc in the tray, you have to select "disc" from the horizontal menu in the K menu system.

Sorry to diverge, back to the timing. After inserting the physical disc in the tray, selecting "play movie" from the LOTR metadata page resulted in a 21 second delay before the movie started. Still better than other BR Players, but NOT the 2-3 seconds I reported earlier. Still not sure why that was inaccurate, and I do apologize for the incorrect timing. I'm going to check several other movies I looked at for timing to see if perhaps one of those was somehow much faster.

Given this finding, perhaps THIS is what K is trying to improve, but I'm not sure.


Jim

[AnOutsider]

Having rarely watched BR discs (used to fall asleep to planet earth nightly, but always left it paused) I was unaware that a huge delay like that is standard.

22 seconds obviously doesn't sound like much, but I challenge you to go stare at a stranger and say nothing for 22 seconds.... awkwaaaaard

[JerryL]

BRs can take a real long time to load. The Oppo loads them pretty quickly but from disc insertion to watching movie it can be quite some time. Since movies are really software it depends on what kinds of features each disc uses. Some load up reasonably quickly but some are a real slow load. Disabling BR live helps.