Official firmware is out!
http://www.lumagen.com/testindex.php?module=radiancepro_updates
Coming soon…the new 8K VP from Lumagen. The price is a steep one for sure at US$12,500! 
Read more about the features here: Lumagen Expands Video Processing Line with Artisan 8K Processor | CE-Sphere
I’ve been using LLDV for the last 4-5 years or so, with a Vertex 2 and Amazon Firestick. Initially with my BenQ projector and now with my LG HU810 and MadVR HTPC. LLDV is the player (Firestick, AppleTV etc) converting a DV signal to HDR10 following an old Sony TV profile because early Sony HDR TVs couldn’t process DV. The issue with LLDV was always getting an appropriate tone curve for the projector based on the number of maximum nits you put into the DV string of the Vertex 2. It took a bit of trial an error, but I currently have LLDV tone map down to 1,000 nits before passing to MadVR. MadVR is perfectly capable of tone mapping higher nit levels, but I thought that if the video engineer coding the DV stream put it some preferences, I’d rather use those than MadVR’s AI (even though MadVR might give more pop). All works well for 99% of the DV movies I pass through the system.
Before MadVR with the BenQ, I had to experiment with the DV string in the Vertex 2 to match the maximum nits to the appropriate BenQ tone curve.
One advantage I see with Lumagen receiving LLDV directly is that they have optimized their tone map for LLDV with a certain set maximum display brightness which is provided by Lumagen to the player so Lumagen should tone map perfectly without the initial adjustments necessary when say trying to match the Vertex2 with MadVR.
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Yes that’s correct. Lumagen will tonemap the LLDV signal by splitting it to baseline HDR10 to make use of the power gamma 2.4 to convert it to SDR2020.
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