PS3 and HD

Cuba

Our MSG4 80gb Playstation 3 came in a week ago, and since then, I've been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out the HD aspect of it.

The TV that we have is:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8419641&type=product&id=1181832209924

The TV is 1080p, and from what I understand, so is the PS3. So getting that beautiful, high quality HD picture to display from the PS3 onto the TV should be as simple as connecting the two machines together with an HDMI cable, right?

So the PS3 is connected to the TV with the convential AV cables (red, white, and yellow) and an HDMI cable. Yet, every time that I turn on the PS3, it asks me:

"An available HDMI device was detected. Do you want to output video and audio using HDMI?"

If I select "Yes" then the screen will go blank forever, and nothing at all happens. Eventually I reset the PS3, select "No" and then everything works just fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could be doing wrong?

JAEF

Unplug the AV (composite) cables! You only need the HDMI cable. It's probably seeing the AV connection and shitting itself.

DeShadowC

Also have you tried unplugging the composite, red white and yellow, cables and having just the HDMI ones plugged in?

supabeast

Have you tried not connecting it to the same TV using two different cables? Because expecting it to work properly with two sets of Audio/Video cables seems like a bit much to me.

eternalbl

You haven't mentioned at all how you used the remote to change your input channel.... Please tell me you're doing this. PLEASE

JAEF

eternalbl wrote: »

You haven't mentioned at all how you used the remote to change your input channel.... Please tell me you're doing this. PLEASE

/facepalm of course.

Make sure you're on the HDMI input channel.

Cuba

Thank you for the help guys; you were all absolutely right. Why the hell I had both the HDMI and AV cords plugged in... I don't know. And I wasn't using the remote to put the TV on the HDMI "channel" so to speak.

Again, thank you for the helping me through this period of stupidity. 8-)

Dark Shroud

Just to add to this, make sure you turn on super white and set the RGB range to full.

bficky

FYI, if anyone is using a HDMI-to-DVI cord to connect the HDMI PS3 to your DVI TV (as I am), you have to use both the HDMI cord and the composite cords supplied in the box. DVI doesn't carry sound, so the audio is carried through the red & white composite cord (of course, do not plug in the yellow video plug or you'll have the same issues as the OP). This might be common knowledge to everyone but me, but I thought I'd throw it out there.


As I'm hijacking this thread, I'll ask my own PS3 HD question. I have a 40" 4:3 1080i capable HDTV (when displaying HD, the black bars turn the TV to the equivalent of a 35" 16:9 TV). The initial setup chose a video display of 1080i (the TV max), but the XMB and the browser font seemed way too small. I changed the video setup to 720p and saw a difference in the text size. However, GTA4 has ridiculously small text also (my wife makes fun of me as I'm sitting on the coffee table 4' from the TV squinting). I'm wondering if GTA4 is running at 720p or 1080i.

1. Do all games run at the same resolution as the PS3 menu screens, or does it default to the TV max. (I would think that it would be at 720p, but I thought I saw a resolution switch when starting GTA4.)

2. A 35" 16:9 HDTV isn't the biggest out there, but I always figured it was big enough. Am I the only one that thinks that text size could be a little bigger (both in game and in the PS3 menu)?

3. Generally, are 720p and 1080i relatively equal in terms of quality? I know it's probably a user preference, I'm just wondering if my blu-ray movies will be as good as possible if my PS3 is set to 720p and not 1080i.

Monolithic_Dome

3. Generally, are 720p and 1080i relatively equal in terms of quality? I know it's probably a user preference, I'm just wondering if my blu-ray movies will be as good as possible if my PS3 is set to 720p and not 1080i.

There's tradeoffs involved (1080i is better for fast-moving stuff, and 720p is better for slow-moving stuff, I think), but on balance the two are about equal.

yurnamehere

Monolithic_Dome wrote: »

3. Generally, are 720p and 1080i relatively equal in terms of quality? I know it's probably a user preference, I'm just wondering if my blu-ray movies will be as good as possible if my PS3 is set to 720p and not 1080i.

There's tradeoffs involved (1080i is better for fast-moving stuff, and 720p is better for slow-moving stuff, I think), but on balance the two are about equal.

I'm pretty sure you have that backwards.

ElJeffe

yurnamehere wrote: »

Monolithic_Dome wrote: »

3. Generally, are 720p and 1080i relatively equal in terms of quality? I know it's probably a user preference, I'm just wondering if my blu-ray movies will be as good as possible if my PS3 is set to 720p and not 1080i.

There's tradeoffs involved (1080i is better for fast-moving stuff, and 720p is better for slow-moving stuff, I think), but on balance the two are about equal.

I'm pretty sure you have that backwards.

Yup.

ElJeffe

Dark Shroud wrote: »

Just to add to this, make sure you turn on super white and set the RGB range to full.

Setting RGB range to Full can grant you more detail in your black levels, though either way you should make sure you properly calibrate your television with something like DVE or the THX Optimizer menus on THX-certified Blu-ray disks. If you turn it to Full without calibrating properly, you'll probably wind up with black crush, which is when darker shades are all muted into one great blob of black.

Super White is the PS3's name for x.v.Color. Go ahead and turn it on, but it has no effect unless you're using an x.v.Color-compatible television and playing x.v.Color-encoded media on it. (Hint: the latter currently does not exist.)