veggeep
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Oct 10, 2005, 1:41 PM
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Philips 42PF9976/37 and 480p question
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Greetings! This is my first post here; after searching the existing threads for answers, I don't see my particular issue yet, so here goes:
After weeks of troubleshooting cables and devices in every possible combination, I have reached the conclusion that my Philips 42" plasma cannot display 480p signal on either the component or HDMI inputs. The problem came to my attention when I hooked up a simple progressive scan DVD player, and the resulting picture became discolored, and occasionally dropped out completely.
After dorking around with my Comcast cable box, which allows me to upscale all digital signals to 480p, 720p, or 1080i, I discovered that the cable box produced the same erratic results on 480p. Everything else works fine.
So, to bandaid the issue, I bought an upscaling DVD player, that lets me run DVDs at 1080i, though only through the HDMI input (copy protected DVDS will not upscale to 1080i on the component outputs). Granted, this works wonders for compression artifacts and overall picture richness, but it forces me to run all my DVD material in interlaced mode. That defeats the entire purpose of why I bought a widescreen digital TV in the first place. The literature lists 480p as one of the signal modes supported by this TV.
Has anyone else had this 480p failure issue with this (or any other Philips models plasma)?
Thanks in advance,
Brett
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