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jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

i cant seem to get my zenith to produce 1080 is it just not capable? when i set the bd to 1080 i get rolling horizontal bands of bright light.i put on a new heavy duty cable (no help)
then i tried to run the samsung ts 160 i just got at 1080 and the picture flashes in and out (for the 2 seconds its in it is amazing. it did the same thing in 720 mode but came out of it after about 15 mins. i geuss i will deal with the 720 if i have to but i would love to get to 1080 if there is any way possible. thanks in advance for any help.
jeff1slife@yahoo.com
thanks jeff

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:41 pm Post subject:

Jeff, you need to specify whether you're talking about 1080i (interlaced) or 1080p (progressive). 1080p is definitely a no-go on your machine... But, according to everything I'm reading on the 900x, it should be able to synch to both 720p and 1080i.

I'll assume you're talking about 1080i since one of your sources is the TS160... If you can't get it to synch to 1080i from either the Blu-ray or the TS160, then something is probably wrong somewhere.

Could you remind me how you're connecting your sources to the projector?

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jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

i have a monoprice hdx-401e switcher with a 35 ft cable (the one you recomended ) (which i love) all other hdmi cables are 3 ft good quality cables. AND yes i did mean 1080i
thanks

ps. i forgot i have an adapter on the ts 160 dvi-hdmi(monoprice)

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

i just checked my pj to see if after 2 hours it would connect at 1080i but no go. the screen read no signal on current device. when i switched it back (the ts 160 ) to 720 i got a picture again. are there settings on the pj i dont know about for 1080i.

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:44 pm Post subject:

I'm pretty sure this is a sync issue.

First, the projector... Go to your internal menus and find the "sync mode" menu... See if maybe sync is set to "negative" or "composite", and see if you can change it to "HDTV" or "tri-level" or something along those lines, or if it's already set to something else, see if you can set it to "auto".... Or, just try changing it whatever settings aren't set.

Which HDMI-RGB adapter are you using? HD Fury? If so, which one?

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jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

hd fury 3 and gamma x

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:06 pm Post subject:

OK, HD Fury 3 - That's great... If you don't get anywhere with the projector's sync menu, the HD Fury 3 has configurable negative/positive sync we can try next. But, play around with the projector sync first before you fool with the microscopic DIP switches on the Fury.

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jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

well the settings now are as such sync inputs-not terminated
sync mode-normal analog/ttl
clamp pulse-back porch

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:07 pm Post subject:

What other sync mode options are available?

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jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

sync inputs terminated
sync mode-special composite
these are the only other options except for clamp pulse

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

when i go to special composite i lose picture
it says no signal in this sync mode

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:39 pm Post subject:

Hmm... OK, so try sync inputs terminated, and then if that doesn't get you anywhere, we can try reversing sync on the HD Fury 3 (even though the Zenith manual says it can handle neg or pos sync.

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jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

ok i changed to sync inputs terminated and the 1080i picture off the ts 160 is flashing but it seems to hold a picture longer between flashs the longer i wait the longer the picture lasts this might just have fixed it if a give it a little more time.

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

well so much for that theory it went blank suddenly,flashed a few more times and then read
no signal on this device (the convergance is off when the no signal on this device came up)

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

now its back flashing a picture on and then off

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

well i tried the bd and i still get the rolling horizontal bands but they are barely noticable now.

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

well i have spent the last 2 hours looking for the manual for the fury 3 no luck i geuss ill have to wait for my wife to get home she must have put it up somewhere

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:17 am Post subject:

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

well, while i am waiting on my wife to get home i started checking the settings on my bd i ran across one i dont understand.
ycbcr/rgb(hdmi) (it says) set the color space conversion for the video signal from hdmi
the options are as follows
ycbcr 4:2:2
ycbr 4:4:4
rgb 16-235
rgb 0-255
my current setting is ycbr 4:4:4
any ideas?

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:23 am Post subject:

You can either use 4:2:2 or RGB 0-255 depending on which looks better. You can try them all if you like