Comments on: Dell Zino HD Review

By: iphone touch screen

iphone touch screen — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:38:51 +0000

anyone can recommend if there is anyway to network iphone into the whole setup? I have a cctv system that i can view on my iphone and would like to record it onto pc units.

By: Sr

Sr — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:38:28 +0000

Hi Wim Wennekes,

I see a delay when i stream netflix or hulu vidoes in set up where zino is connected to a samsung led tv throug a receiver with hdmi cables…any help is appreciated.

By: Wim Wennekes

Wim Wennekes — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:33:32 +0000

Dell Zino HD has 5.1 sound indeed even with the 2.1 soundcard…. but is not easy to get this signal to your surround sound amplifier/receiver if you connect your Zino HD with an HDMI cable to your flatscreen….

The problem is that the Zino HD will only sends this 5.1 sound over the HDMI output when it is connected to a device that is capable of managing 5.1 sound. Otherwise the “HDMI-handshake” will instruct the Dell Zino HD to “downgrade” the HD audio signal to a normal stereo signal. Most of the modern HD flatscreen LED tv’s will tell the Zino to downgrade the stereo signal, even when this tv has a toslink output. Thus, you will only see a stereo signal over the toslink. In a setup like this, you will need an HDMI switch / splitter with audio out. This device will tell the Zino HD to send HD audio over HDMI. Then you can send the HD video signal (1020p) over hdmi to your tv and send the HD audio signal over toslink to your receiver. You also need media playing software like XBMC (open source).

This works fine in my setup:

Dell Zino HD, Samsung 3D led tv, bose receiver and octava 5×1 hdmi switch + audio

By: smeghead

smeghead — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:32:36 +0000

The solution to the Black Borders/Not Full screen is the overscan… I believe this is AMD’s fault, if you need to blame someone, the catalyst control centre software is the WORST UI I’ve seen on a graphics card in ages… appalling… I spent hours looking at the screens and not seeing this tiny icon and not realising it would do what it did…

Anyway, I dunno if the Dell has anything to do with it but the solution is “frustratingly simple”…
Display > Monitor Settings > THE INSANELY TINY black down arrow next to the SMALL image of your monitor… RIGHT click “Configure…” in my situaion the only thing I could change was “Scaling to 0%”

Additional problem I had shortly after was that MEDIA CENTER still had the borders. The solution to this was to tell Media Centre that the screen it was displaying on was a MONITOR, not a flatscreen…

this is kind of the solution better than I can explain:
“http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3515/t/19317341.aspx”

Annoying…
I also hate the lag on MCE, but dunno if I would crucify either dell or MS because, the recordings are still okay and although its not super snappy, it seems to be an acceptable balance of functionality and reliabilty…

By: Drums1078

Drums1078 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:13:33 +0000

I just purchased one fully loaded and was shocked to see it only supports 2.1 sound!! under the sound settings i only have that option. im using HDMI and optical 5.1 surround system. does anyone know what i can do to get real surround?? also the info on the screen not fitting helped. thanks!

By: JoshC

JoshC — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:22:28 +0000

Anyone know whats the best software out right now for ripping blue-ray dvds to your hard drive. I’m looking to put all my blue rays on my zino for easy access. Thanks

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:27:08 +0000

Thank you sooo much for the information! I was going nuts thinking my brand new Zino HD didn’t even fill my f*cking screen, and with your info I have finally fixed my problem. Now I need to move on to the next problem, which is eliminating lag on Flash video (e.g., Hulu).

By: Wiss

Wiss — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:13:14 +0000

Hey,

Thank you for the review and pictures. I hope you get some freebies for review in the future! You do great work!

Wiss

By: CamilleM

CamilleM — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:52:52 +0000

Thanks for the detailed info on opening the case and replacing parts. I got a Zino with no BD and will be replacing the drive.

Peter F: Thanks SO much for the instructions on correcting the image scaling problem! Worked perfectly!

By: KarbonKopy

KarbonKopy — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:47:57 +0000

Never mind guys, found it.

http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/graphics/ati-mobility-hd-4000/hd-4300/Pages/hd-4300.aspx