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derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

OK, you may have seen my other recent post where I could not get my xg to work with the pc control software. So I got a remote from Billm on this forum "great guy by the way thanks Bill".

I got it set up for the first time not perfect, but not to bad for a first time. This is my first NEC by the way. I have had, and setup a few previous projectors sony, barco, mitsubishi, and my trusty marquee 8500. I found that these XG's do have a learning curve.I am trying to run it at 1080p with a hdfury I know this may be to high but it seams to resolve it fairly well "the same source I use for my marquee"

Is streaking a common XG thing or can it be caused by improper setup?
Could this be an easy fix or should I steal the HD 145's for the marquee and say hell with the rest?

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

OOPS forgot the tell you it is a XG 1100 is that helps any.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:10 am Post subject:

Do the internal menus streak? Unless a video boardis bad, I have not seen XGs streak.

Torsten · Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

derfla,

perhaps you used too much point convergence?

The "ab"-use of point convergance causes something that looks likes streaking on an XG in the upper and lower quarter of the picture. If you have used point a lot, it may be a good idea to delete all point settings for test purpose.

Regards

Torsten

Bert Randolph · Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 81 Location: Germany

My XG streaks when I set brightness to high on either the PJ or the source. Therefore I keep it low, looks better anyway Smile

A high gamma-value on the source can cause it too.

Daniel.

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

Fujifrontier · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 354 Location: San Antonio, Texas

pics

deronmoped · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1154 Location: San Diego

Like you said the NEC's have a bit more of a learning curve. Get the PJ set up closer to ideal and you will end up using almost no point, if any at all.

Deron.

Bert Randolph · Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 81 Location: Germany

Z-Photo · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

This problem can be fixed by one simply step

Buy an AMPRO. Presto no streaking (or light output)

You only real problem is that you chose a projector that has a history of actually working.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:54 am Post subject:

Wow that's 2.

papalek · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1536 Location: Longs SC

Dammm, Pete must be feeling better......... He has been throwing out Ampro bashing pretty regular now.

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

OK I redid the setup and your right in by the time you get to the point conv. there is little to nothing that needs it. But this did not fix my problem. It is a little better but not to much.

After watching a few movies on it with the kids I have come to the conclusion that it is not streaking but stripes that run right to left and of a slightly darker shad than what should be there. More like Noise that moves with the image and can be affected by the brightness or darkness of the image. And are affected by any object that enters stage right. or when the image pans up or down. So any ideas? I will try to capture an image of it to post.

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

But on the bright side the color on the screen is outstanding. Oh and one more thing the brightness control does not work if it does it makes very little change to the image. I am stumped CURT help me out.

dbaisey · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:18 am Post subject:

Make sure the test - normal switch is set to normal. Its on the video out board (tiny) if its in the test position it defeats brightness and you have alot of work to do. Doug

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

I had something similar with my PG that turned out to be a bad cable connection on the rgbhv to vga at the computer, try testing the connections while playing from the same source to see if the image changes.

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

Tinman · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

I have seen this caused by line mismatch/termination issues. I had a coby progressive dvd player that looked good on any other RGBHV display but on NONE of the NEC's. The projectors just refused to get along with it. Never figured it out since I moved on to 1080i long ago.

May try to insert inline terminators and see what it does. Odd that it's on a fury, though. Try a 5 volt powersupply with it?

Marc

dbaisey · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject:

Brightness not working:
I think your looking at the wrong board (Osc) ?. The test- norm switch is tiny and will be under the wire connector but look on the decal for test-norm AKB SW at the video out board. Doug

Streaking:
Is this on all three colors the same?

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

I will look for the switch in a min. YES it is on all three colors.