I wrote:
... I found the option to adjust the overscan (and even make fine adjustments to the aspect ratio), and while that works for the info displays, I’m not sure it makes much difference to the actual video playback.
Yes, adjusting the overscan does work. I brought up a short test-pattern clip (with distinctive patterning in the overscan area), paused it, and went into the settings menu to tweak the overscan, and while the info overlay moved, the clip image itself did not ... until I resumed it playing, whereupon it immediately snapped into the new settings. I previously mentioned trick play on the old WDTV box. The Vero doesn’t have trick play as such: no fast or slow playback, whether forward or reverse. All it has is the ability to skip backwards/forwards 10 seconds (using the left-right buttons), and I think a larger interval with the up/down buttons. Also, the output resolution setting maxes out at 720p. This could be a limitation of my old TV, which will handle 1080i but not 1080p; I don’t think the Vero wants to do interlaced output -- quite a reasonable attitude, I think.