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PS3 Video Settings?

EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles.Portland, ORRegistered User regular
edited September 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
So, sometime between 7am and 9am my Panasonic G10 is showing up. Yesterday, my PS3 arrived in the mail and I plugged it into my old shitty CRT just to take a look at it. I was leafing through the settings and my question is this...

For DVD/Blu-Ray viewing, what should my Video settings in the PS3 be at? There was a glut of them and I'm not sure what I should set them at.

Also, are there any other settings that should be tweaked? All the software is updated and I'm signed up on the PSN.

Thanks!

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Set display to 1080p, and the rest you can pretty much leave as the default. You're hooking it up via HDMI cable I'm assuming?

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Depending on how your TV handles it, you may need to switch between the Full or Limited RGB level.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Set display to 1080p, and the rest you can pretty much leave as the default. You're hooking it up via HDMI cable I'm assuming?

    Yeah. Does it automatically do the 24p thing? I think I might want that off. It told me it was going to use the optimal settings when I popped Kill Bill in.

    And holy shit does it look incredible.

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I remember you also had a sound system thread, not sure what you ended up doing sound-wise, but depending on what you settled on you may need to tweak audio settings. For my PS3, I run HDMI to my TV for video but audio gets output over optical directly to my receiver, since my TV downmixes the HDMI audio signal to plain stereo and the receiver itself predates HDMI.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »
    Depending on how your TV handles it, you may need to switch between the Full or Limited RGB level.

    Explain? How would I find out?

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I remember you also had a sound system thread, not sure what you ended up doing sound-wise, but depending on what you settled on you may need to tweak audio settings. For my PS3, I run HDMI to my TV for video but audio gets output over optical directly to my receiver, since my TV downmixes the HDMI audio signal to plain stereo and the receiver itself predates HDMI.

    Just using the plain ol' TV speakers right now.

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  • Locust76Locust76 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Esh wrote: »
    Yeah. Does it automatically do the 24p thing? I think I might want that off.

    You definitely don't want to try and turn off 24p. That's going to be the hands-down best way to watch any Blu-Ray movie, since they're shot, edited, retouched, played in theaters and encoded to BD all at 24p. 24p is, apart from higher resolution, THE reason to have HDTV+Blu-Ray.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Locust76 wrote: »
    Esh wrote: »
    Yeah. Does it automatically do the 24p thing? I think I might want that off.

    You definitely don't want to try and turn off 24p. That's going to be the hands-down best way to watch any Blu-Ray movie, since they're shot, edited, retouched, played in theaters and encoded to BD all at 24p. 24p is, apart from higher resolution, THE reason to have HDTV+Blu-Ray.

    I thought that unless you had a super high end Plasma that it looked a little off to some people? Some sort of stuttering or jagging?

    Also, are there are any settings I need to set for video game display?

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Esh wrote: »
    RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »
    Depending on how your TV handles it, you may need to switch between the Full or Limited RGB level.

    Explain? How would I find out?

    You will probably be able to tell immediately--if blacks look really washed out in games, you probably need to set it to full, and if blacks are getting crushed you probably need to set it to limited. It's kind of a non-issue with a lot of HDTVs now because a lot of them have their own black level settings that you can adjust. But if your TV is expecting full RGB colorspace over HDMI and it's set to limited things will be really washed out.

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  • Gilbert0Gilbert0 North of SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Did the exact same thing you did. Played PS3 on a 24 inch CRT for about a month before I got a 42 inch LCD of glory.

    Even though I switched from component to HDMI, the PS3 autodetected the output and I did not have to change a thing. Blu-ray looks great, games look great. Think it even set to auto upscale my DVD's.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »
    Esh wrote: »
    RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »
    Depending on how your TV handles it, you may need to switch between the Full or Limited RGB level.

    Explain? How would I find out?

    You will probably be able to tell immediately--if blacks look really washed out in games, you probably need to set it to full, and if blacks are getting crushed you probably need to set it to limited. It's kind of a non-issue with a lot of HDTVs now because a lot of them have their own black level settings that you can adjust. But if your TV is expecting full RGB colorspace over HDMI and it's set to limited things will be really washed out.

    The G10 has ridiculous black levels, so left it on Limited.

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