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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Lumagen just keep dropping new features all year long…Here’s another tibits on LLDV. For those using OLED,QLED TV, this latest beta firmware will allow you to tweak the backlighting/zones to get the best DTM for your movies.
Download the beta here.
Change logs
Added settings for LLDV options and gave LLDV its own submenu under Input: Options: HDMI Setup: LLDV EDID menu.
> Bugfix for not exiting LLDV mode when source went back to SDR.
> Adds support for Stewart masking control via rs232 (in menu under Other: I/O Setup: Stewart).
A look at the Lumagen founder’s home theatre.
Set my LLDV to max 6400 and lowest nit to 0.001, looks really good on my JVC N7 demoed with Bad Boys Ride or Die…fabulous PQ for the movie
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hi all,
Can I ask, for those using Lumagen, do you also watch sports like premier league stretched with NLS? What is the experience like? Do you find it weird to watch? I have seen some videos where they use it for American football but not sure how’s the experience for soccer.
And also, I have seen a few videos where its mentioned that watching streaming is not easy because of the subtitles are usually placed in the black bars - so when the picture is stretched the subs can’t be seen properly at all. Is there any way around this issue?
thanks!
For the subtitle predicament…Lumagen has implemented a subtitle shift w/o altering the AR of the picture. It simply do “shift” by a few pixels up to accomodate the subtitle.