Well, here it is. I took the ball Lee Bailey threw out there and ran with it. Figure this will give current/new/future F59 owners an easier place to find specific posts regarding Hitachi F59 tweaks/adjustments/etc. Enjoy!
thank you so much jwebb1970 and your sources it worked good it took about 10 min say its easy to do but a lot of clicking to do make sure you check all settings before you exit i was close to exit and i forgot to press select on one and caught it right before.
p.s. would this change the brightness or anything like that
I'll give this a try tonight. Anyone go back and see if any service menu items you had changed in the TA1360 menu went back to their defaults? I'm gonna write mine down first before I perform this update.
I tested out the fix last night and it seems to work flawlessly. I tried playing my PS3 for around half an hour without a single hiccup. That's never happened before. Cheers to JWebb. Indeed the internet is a wonderful thing.
Just a personal warning that Hitachi's Canadian Tech Support has been useless as it gets with this issue. I don't want to go on the attack here but any Canucks reading this thread should avoid their help if they don't want to become extremely angry and frustrated. Not only are they pathetically mis-informed but also, in a weird way, defensive in the "support" that they offer. I currently have an open complaint with the BBB against them. [end rant]
This board has been such a great discovery for me. Thanks again JWebb!
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I'll give this a try tonight. Anyone go back and see if any service menu items you had changed in the TA1360 menu went back to their defaults? I'm gonna write mine down first before I perform this update.
I haven't gone into the TA1360 menu but I have checked the White BAL STD settings and they were still intact. I did notice that the V019 version did not change to the magenta color if change was accepted. If I go into SM the changes I have made are still there.
As an Authorized Servicer, I can also confirm that the bulletin is official. As to whether it actually fixes anything will remain to be seen. (I have not done one myself) Engineering changes don't always have the desired effect.
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I haven't gone into the TA1360 menu but I have checked the White BAL STD settings and they were still intact. I did notice that the V019 version did not change to the magenta color if change was accepted. If I go into SM the changes I have made are still there.
I take it that you powered off the TV, then unplugged it from the wall for at least 5 seconds? I tried this out last night, and it now shows the version in magenta as claimed. Also, it did not change any of my other SM changes.
I can attest that this fix absolutely works. I've been using my Sony DVD player and PS3 all weekend with only a couple of minor hiccups (a one second black screen while playing Resistance and a two second "picture-shift" while watching an upscaled DVD ( the entire screen moves about 10% horizontally and then re-centers). Still, though, it's a massive improvement over before where I couldn't go more than 10 minutes without some screwy issue (particularily with the PS3).
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I take it that you powered off the TV, then unplugged it from the wall for at least 5 seconds? I tried this out last night, and it now shows the version in magenta as claimed. Also, it did not change any of my other SM changes.
The service menu changes had no effect on my HDMI problem. I confirmed they stuck (a pink V195 is displayed in the service menu now).
Colors are all messed up at 1080i via HDMI (on the left in that pic). Colors are just fine at 1080i via component.
I guess I'll call Hitachi back (they left me a message about this service bulletin)... they'll probably want to send a tech out to do this service menu tweak so, for my warranties sake, is it best to put it back to how it was and make no mention of how I changed it myself and it didn't work?
Only have my HTPC hooked up via HDMI and the freakouts were very sporadic. If this completely eliminates them, I'll probably get an HDMI switcher and move everything I can to that input.
Plan on picking up a PS3 when Motorstorm is released, so hopefully this completely solves the issue.
If you're talking about all 480i material, you can change the default aspect to 4:3 zoom or stretch in the user menus. You may have to then manually change to 16:9 when watching HD.
Hey guys. Good work making this thread. I think it will help a lot of people out.
My dad purchased a 51F59A in November, our family was looking into getting an HDTV during the black friday sales. My dad ended up getting a great deal on the set from circuit city and we were all very excited about it. Especially me, since i'm a big gamer and had just purchased a Wii and PS3, with my 360 upstairs on our family SDTV craving an HDTV to really shine. (Even though i'm incredibly paranoid about burn-in.)
In my household I was the biggest supporter or spending all this money to buy a new tv. But now i'm feeling a bit guilty. Something is off about the picture quality. The middle of the display is beautiful, with a very sharp picture (according to my noob HDTV eyes). But towards the sides of the display it becomes very blurry. This is most apparent on the 360 dashboard and the ps3's XMB GUI. Text very blurry, especially in contrast to text towards the center of the screen.
I've tried to do magic convergence to fix the picture, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I've also tried to tweak many of the menu settings to no avail. I'm using similar ones to everyone here with lee's suggested settings. As i said before, i'm not expert as this is my first HD set, but i'm very anxious to fix the quality. Might there be any tweaks in the servicer's menu that i should try? Or is the TV a good candidate for being returned? Any other advice?
(Also, i haven't seen many problems via HDMI on ps3. Does this happen to everyone?)
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Hey guys. Good work making this thread. I think it will help a lot of people out.
My dad purchased a 51F59A in November, our family was looking into getting an HDTV during the black friday sales. My dad ended up getting a great deal on the set from circuit city and we were all very excited about it. Especially me, since i'm a big gamer and had just purchased a Wii and PS3, with my 360 upstairs on our family SDTV craving an HDTV to really shine. (Even though i'm incredibly paranoid about burn-in.)
In my household I was the biggest supporter or spending all this money to buy a new tv. But now i'm feeling a bit guilty. Something is off about the picture quality. The middle of the display is beautiful, with a very sharp picture (according to my noob HDTV eyes). But towards the sides of the display it becomes very blurry. This is most apparent on the 360 dashboard and the ps3's XMB GUI. Text very blurry, especially in contrast to text towards the center of the screen.
I've tried to do magic convergence to fix the picture, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I've also tried to tweak many of the menu settings to no avail. I'm using similar ones to everyone here with lee's suggested settings. As i said before, i'm not expert as this is my first HD set, but i'm very anxious to fix the quality. Might there be any tweaks in the servicer's menu that i should try? Or is the TV a good candidate for being returned? Any other advice?
(Also, i haven't seen many problems via HDMI on ps3. Does this happen to everyone?)
To answer the easy question. No not everyone has HDMI issues. I dont.
I have a 360 and it looks great . No blurriness at all . And this was before I even tweaked anything. You shouyld not have blurry sides.
Check over all your menu settings and see if something is activated that shouldnt be like noise reduction. Give us a run down of your settings and how your connected to the tv.
Edit: Just now, i experienced the picture jump a tad off screen from my tv. So it appears it is a problem for me as well. Now i'm even more thankful for this thread.
Do you mean a horizontal shift in the picture? Like a momentary horizontal shift that corrects itself after a second or 2?
Don't think the HDMI fix addresses this---or can. Prior to applying the fix to my set, the only HDMI "freakout" I'd experienced was the horizontal shift. However, if your picture via HDMI was changing color/tint, causing the set to turn off, etc., this fix does address these problems.
I use a Sony DVP-NS75H upconverting DVD player via HDMI. After about a month of very regular use, I had noticed this shift occuring very infrequently (maybe 4-3 times max in the last 30+ days). And it's only ever happened once during a movie, that I've seen, and then only one time out of maybe 5-6 DVDs watched.
When researching this on the DVD player threads, I found that other Sony users have had this happen as well. And this was happening with various makes/models/types of HDTVs. Apparently, Sony's predecessor to the 75H had this problem, but even more so. I've also read/heard about other HDMI gear occasionally experiencing momentary horizontal shifts.
While I couldn't say with 100% certainty, it seems that the shift issue may just be yet another problem stemming from the lack of HDMI standardization or some other HDMI-related bug. Likely a reason as to why SimplayHD doesn't have a single HDMI DVD player on their list of "certified compatable" equipment--whereas Hitachi is one of the manufacturers SimplayHD lists as producing "SimplayHD-Certified" TVs. So the shift is not a fault of Hitachi or their TVs. This is the first time I've heard this happening w/ an Oppo. If it's happening a lot with you, I'd consider contacting Oppo about it. That company is all about customer service and may even have some sort of firmware/software fix available that addresses the shift issue.
Something Sony will likely NEVER have!
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