Question:
With my new Pioneer 350, that I got from amazon a week ago.
Basically my tele (Panasonic - several years old now) has 1 rgb scart (AV1), 1 other scart (AV2), svideo, composite and L/R stereo in (AV3).
I'm wondering if the trouble I'm having is due to my tele or dvd player or what.
Basically since I got it I've been running it on RGB output into AV1.
I noticed a slight very intermittent fault (that has hasn't appeared few a few days) in that I occasionally get darkish greenish flashes. Also the volume would occasionally get cutting out and then getting quite loud, again only for an instant (over period of 1-2 secs) though and very intermittent.
Finally I consistently get some bad shading effects, especially on certain scenes (parts/bands of the screen go dark and when they clearly shouldn't; i.e. end up with top half a wall really dark, and the bottom half normal - but it fluctuating; sort of on and off).
Then I tried a svideo lead (AV3) and once got a dark flash a few days ago, haven't had it since. But I don't get bad shading effect. and once I had a bit of a problem with the sound almost cutting out, again for an instant.
So I switched back to AV1, but not using RGB; just composite, and there is no bad shading effect.
If I turn RGB back on the bad shading comes back.
I've tried 3 different scart leads btw when connecting to AV1.
So is this perhaps a problem with my Pioneer problematic in outputing RGB or perhaps my tv's ability to cope with RGB.
Problem is that I don't have another Scart TV to test it on, grr. And I'm so busy at the mo I don't really have all that much of a chance to test it extensively.
So can someone give me an opinion given some of you guys must have tons of experience in playing with your setups, or perhaps some other tests I could do to narrow it down?
Thanks v much!
Does no one have any ideas :(
I just tried 2 itv digiboxs (nokia and philips) on rgb out to AV1 and couldn't see any of the bad shading effect - but not sure if thats because my itv digibox ain't sending out as strong a signal or what.
I just don't want to end up with the case that I return it to amazon and they say nothing is wrong and I've ended up with a whole load of carriage charges!
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Seems to be s similar fault, though it is unclear if the tv was at fault or the player.
Yeah, seem some sort of similarity, though that's an odd case indeed - I think I may be able to test the player out on my sisters tv tonight, so that should hopefully sort it out.
Thanks!
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Right done more testing -
Took it round to my sisters and tried it in the same place on my R1 Beautiful Mind disc that gives me bad shading on my tele - and it was fine on RGB mode; although the svideo was a bit orangy to start with, a bit of playing with the tv colour controls and it was fine.
So I came home, and the problem was still there when tried on my tele.
I happened to pick up my R2 Swordfish off my sister and tried that because it was to hand - and it was fine on both RGB and Svideo.
Then tried R1 Fight Club, R2 Gladiator, R1 Terminator 2, R1 Independence Day and R4 Matrix.
The R2 and R4 were absolutely fine on any mode; but all the R1 had the dark shading problem at some point on the disc (usually scenes that are quite dark).
So the problem appears to only be RGB NTSC discs; and seeing as these were fine on my sisters tv; then I guess that means my tele is obviously having an issue with it.
(I have previously output DVDs from my computer to the tele, but I think the TVtool thing I have sends it as PAL or I was sending it to a different AV socket)
So does this seem like a reasonable/plausable diagnosis and can I assume my Pioneer player works fine?
Seems the problem is your TV's competency with NTSC/PAL60 signals. Does this player have the ability to switch from NTSC to PAL50/60? If it has, try changing that setting...
Basically my tele (Panasonic - several years old now) has 1 rgb scart (AV1), 1 other scart (AV2), svideo, composite and L/R stereo in (AV3).
I'm wondering if the trouble I'm having is due to my tele or dvd player or what.
Basically since I got it I've been running it on RGB output into AV1.
I noticed a slight very intermittent fault (that has hasn't appeared few a few days) in that I occasionally get darkish greenish flashes. Also the volume would occasionally get cutting out and then getting quite loud, again only for an instant (over period of 1-2 secs) though and very intermittent.
Finally I consistently get some bad shading effects, especially on certain scenes (parts/bands of the screen go dark and when they clearly shouldn't; i.e. end up with top half a wall really dark, and the bottom half normal - but it fluctuating; sort of on and off).
Then I tried a svideo lead (AV3) and once got a dark flash a few days ago, haven't had it since. But I don't get bad shading effect. and once I had a bit of a problem with the sound almost cutting out, again for an instant.
So I switched back to AV1, but not using RGB; just composite, and there is no bad shading effect.
If I turn RGB back on the bad shading comes back.
I've tried 3 different scart leads btw when connecting to AV1.
So is this perhaps a problem with my Pioneer problematic in outputing RGB or perhaps my tv's ability to cope with RGB.
Problem is that I don't have another Scart TV to test it on, grr. And I'm so busy at the mo I don't really have all that much of a chance to test it extensively.
So can someone give me an opinion given some of you guys must have tons of experience in playing with your setups, or perhaps some other tests I could do to narrow it down?
Thanks v much!
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Does no one have any ideas :(
I just tried 2 itv digiboxs (nokia and philips) on rgb out to AV1 and couldn't see any of the bad shading effect - but not sure if thats because my itv digibox ain't sending out as strong a signal or what.
I just don't want to end up with the case that I return it to amazon and they say nothing is wrong and I've ended up with a whole load of carriage charges!
Answers:
&threadid=135599&highlight=350+and+pioneer
Seems to be s similar fault, though it is unclear if the tv was at fault or the player.
Answers:
Yeah, seem some sort of similarity, though that's an odd case indeed - I think I may be able to test the player out on my sisters tv tonight, so that should hopefully sort it out.
Thanks!
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Right done more testing -
Took it round to my sisters and tried it in the same place on my R1 Beautiful Mind disc that gives me bad shading on my tele - and it was fine on RGB mode; although the svideo was a bit orangy to start with, a bit of playing with the tv colour controls and it was fine.
So I came home, and the problem was still there when tried on my tele.
I happened to pick up my R2 Swordfish off my sister and tried that because it was to hand - and it was fine on both RGB and Svideo.
Then tried R1 Fight Club, R2 Gladiator, R1 Terminator 2, R1 Independence Day and R4 Matrix.
The R2 and R4 were absolutely fine on any mode; but all the R1 had the dark shading problem at some point on the disc (usually scenes that are quite dark).
So the problem appears to only be RGB NTSC discs; and seeing as these were fine on my sisters tv; then I guess that means my tele is obviously having an issue with it.
(I have previously output DVDs from my computer to the tele, but I think the TVtool thing I have sends it as PAL or I was sending it to a different AV socket)
So does this seem like a reasonable/plausable diagnosis and can I assume my Pioneer player works fine?
Answers:
Seems the problem is your TV's competency with NTSC/PAL60 signals. Does this player have the ability to switch from NTSC to PAL50/60? If it has, try changing that setting...
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