Brand new to the market, DVDO (the retail brand name attached to Anchor Bay Technology) Edge is exactly the product that many people need. Priced at £589, this unit costs little more than a high quality HDMi switcher yet does so much more.

Up to ten inputs, be they HDMi (yes 1.3), S-Video, component or composite can be output to a single HDMi feed. The on-board scaling, detail enhancement and noise reduction features are both impressively effective and easy to use. In fact the whole device takes ease of use to a new level.

The Edge offers 85-90% the ability of a top notch £2k + device in an easy to use package. And I have to say that a budget DVD player running into our Sim2 BT380 projector with 2.35 anamorphic lens looks absolutely stunning. I'm completely bewildered as to why Blu-Ray looks better through it too . . .

Oh, and it routes the digital audio too, allows lip-sync adjustment, picture settings by input and all controlled from an intuitive back-lit learning remote that should be able to be the hub of the system.

Whilst modern receivers often have HDMi 1.3 switching and maybe even scaling, few, if any, have this level of quality enhancement, let alone the ability to convert to HDMi

from analogue. Consider also that if even a high-end projector such as the Sim2 HT380 can benefit, a budget projector, or HD plasma / LCD device, where on-board picture management is handled relatively poorly will gain even more.

We have also foud the Edge to have a 'killer' feature with respect to audio. Because it routes audio through via HDMi 1.3 and gives a single optical digital output of the device you are watching, the audio quality from BluRay is sujectively much better via the optical feed from the DVDO than directly from the player when routed into our Naim AV2 processor.. Whether it is allowing the higher bit-rate formats through is unclear. It certainly sounds good though.

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