DickK
Graduate Poster
Hi,
Sorry, not quite sure where to put this question on the forum, but El Greco mentioned s-video in the "Analogue Cables" thread here and it got me thinking. I'm hoping a knowledgeable soul will enlighten me.
Back in 2000 I splurged on a Panasonic 36" wide screen, the TX-36PF10. It refreshes at 100Hz and has a very good picture. I use the s-video inputs from both the DVD player and the external digibox. The thing I've never been able to get right is the RGB picture which I can select for inputs on AV2 (IIRC). While the RGB picture is slightly crisper it always displays what looks like faint, slowly scrolling venetian blinds, about 1/2" deep, comprised of alternate light and dark strips. Everything else works as specified.
In the time that I've had the TV, I've used it with 2 different DVD players and the effect remains for both. Only my latest digibox has been capable of RGB, and the effect is there also.
Does anyone have any idea why this is occurring? I've lived with it so long it doesn't really both me, so I'm as interested in the reason for it as a solution, to be honest.
I have scoured the net and the problem seems to be relatively well known. However, the only clue I've come up with for solving this is to use something called a line-doubler, but they looked expensive and didn't guarantee a solution. Once I found a single reference to setting a value accessed via the service menu but could not find an item with exactly the same name so I left all as it was. That's rather vague, so apologies.
Any ideas?
Sorry, not quite sure where to put this question on the forum, but El Greco mentioned s-video in the "Analogue Cables" thread here and it got me thinking. I'm hoping a knowledgeable soul will enlighten me.
Back in 2000 I splurged on a Panasonic 36" wide screen, the TX-36PF10. It refreshes at 100Hz and has a very good picture. I use the s-video inputs from both the DVD player and the external digibox. The thing I've never been able to get right is the RGB picture which I can select for inputs on AV2 (IIRC). While the RGB picture is slightly crisper it always displays what looks like faint, slowly scrolling venetian blinds, about 1/2" deep, comprised of alternate light and dark strips. Everything else works as specified.
In the time that I've had the TV, I've used it with 2 different DVD players and the effect remains for both. Only my latest digibox has been capable of RGB, and the effect is there also.
Does anyone have any idea why this is occurring? I've lived with it so long it doesn't really both me, so I'm as interested in the reason for it as a solution, to be honest.
I have scoured the net and the problem seems to be relatively well known. However, the only clue I've come up with for solving this is to use something called a line-doubler, but they looked expensive and didn't guarantee a solution. Once I found a single reference to setting a value accessed via the service menu but could not find an item with exactly the same name so I left all as it was. That's rather vague, so apologies.
Any ideas?
