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johnnywyoming
02-01-07, 10:37 AM
Directv HD DVR hooked up yesterday and.... last night it really blew me away. Well, after I figured out that my Sammy DLP has only 480i / p on component 1 input, I switched the cables to component 2 which handles them all except 1080p, wow! Then I realized that my Harmon Kardon DVD25 dvd player has been in that 480i/p setting for three years! So I plugged it into component 3 and played a bit of Close Encounters of a Third Kind this morning before work and noticed a substantial difference! Now I will play all of my DVDs over again :)

Anyway, there is supposed to be a question in here about DVE calibration and here it is. I've used the DVE dvd (latest edition) on the component 1 inputs. Now, I gather that to calibrate the component 2 & 3 inputs all I have to do is to swap the DVD output cables to each input, calibrate and move on. However, when the new HDMI to DVI cable arrives tomorrow I will have output from my Directv HD DVR through the HDMI to the DVI on the Sammy... How do I use the DVD to calibrate that DVI input????

Michael TLV
02-01-07, 12:00 PM
Greetings

Ideally ... you have to use an upconverting DVD player with HDMI/DVI outputs.

Regards

Digitally challe
02-04-07, 10:50 PM
Directv HD DVR hooked up yesterday and.... last night it really blew me away. Well, after I figured out that my Sammy DLP has only 480i / p on component 1 input, I switched the cables to component 2 which handles them all except 1080p, wow! Then I realized that my Harmon Kardon DVD25 dvd player has been in that 480i/p setting for three years! So I plugged it into component 3 and played a bit of Close Encounters of a Third Kind this morning before work and noticed a substantial difference! Now I will play all of my DVDs over again :)

Anyway, there is supposed to be a question in here about DVE calibration and here it is. I've used the DVE dvd (latest edition) on the component 1 inputs. Now, I gather that to calibrate the component 2 & 3 inputs all I have to do is to swap the DVD output cables to each input, calibrate and move on. However, when the new HDMI to DVI cable arrives tomorrow I will have output from my Directv HD DVR through the HDMI to the DVI on the Sammy... How do I use the DVD to calibrate that DVI input????
You said you used the latest edition of DVE. Would that be the DVE HD edition? Has it finally been released? Thank you. -Bill

johnnywyoming
02-05-07, 09:06 AM
No, not the HD DVE.