I’ve got a few questions on getting the PS3 hooked up properly. Can someone help me out?

I have the PS3 hooked to a Pioneer 6070HD TV through HDMI. The 6070 accepts a 1080p signal via HDMI. I also have a receiver that can do 7.1, but it does not do this via HDMI, only via optical. It accepts HDMI, but for some stupid reason it doesn’t process sound via HDMI (they state this in the manual).

My setup is HDMI straight to the 6070, optical to the receiver. I tried HDMI to the TV then optical to the receiver but my TV will not do optical out when you have it hooked up via HDMI (not sure why, I guess copyright stuff).

First question: If I don’t turn my receiver on I can’t hear anything from the PS3 until I go into the settings and change the audio to HDMI. Then I have to go back in and change it to optical in order to hear it through the receiver. Anyway to set this up so I can hear both if I want without always switching back and forth?

Second: Do I use this super white mode? My TV manual doesn’t say anything about it, not sure if I should turn it on and what I should see different.

Third: RGB full range? Yes or no, what do I look for if I do this?

Fourth: Cross color reduction filter. Not sure what this does and how I should set it and what to look for.

Fifth: I wanted my PS3 to upscale older DVDs. I put in Star Wars Episode 3 and it looks good but I have it set to normal. If I set it to Double Scale then I get black bars on the sides AND top. If I set it to normal it looks good. Anyway to tell the PS3 to use Double Scale for upscaling (or should I not even be using that)?

Any other tips or suggestions for settings for the blu-ray movies, video output, sound, etc?

:( Anyone, thoughts, I know its asked a lot but its driving me crazy. Thanks.

1. No. Its one or the other, but not both for now. They might add it later on, but no one knows.

2/3 I would try them both on. The 6070 is a nice set and should be able to handle them, but experiment and see which looks best to you. If you look in the plasma forum there might be a thread dedicated to your tv, look there to see what others are saying.

4. off. It only does anything with composite and s-video connections.

5. I believe the normal setting upscales automatically. Can't remember off the top of my head.

-Sean

1) I don't believe so. You'd think the audio would work like the video and auto-detect. However, I don't believe it can currently do this.

2) It probably enhances your whites so they are white white, and not ivory white, or florescent white. It's up to you if you want to turn that on or not.

3) RGB Full/Limited range will make things darker, but you may lose detail in shadows. I would suggest downloading the Uncharted demo and watching it with RGB set to Limited and then watch it again with it set to Full. I ultimately turned that off and adjusted my Panasonic's dark levels to dark (default was light, which caused games and videos to seem a bit washed out) and my color temperature to normal (from warm, which caused my whites to seem a little orange-ish). This produced much better color quality and shadows than using default Cinema settings and using RGB Full.

4) Can't remember what that does.

5) I would just leave the upscaling to normal and not Double Scale. The picture might seem better than normal, but you're shrinking the resolution. Anything looks when you shrink the image down. I don't mind the bars on the top and bottom, but to have them on the sides as well is a bit annoying for me. But, that's just my opinion.

Thanks everyone!!

set the resolution to Full. That will give you the best results