Samsung HLRxx67W Owners Thread --- 720p DLP HDTV - Page 14

Do a google search for audio delay device.

Thanks.

OK, I have a question - in the 4:3 mode the vertical borderline between a picture and black side bars is not perfectly straight (slightly curved inside). Is it normal. Any ways to fight it?

Thanks,
Dmitry.

Band aids, band aids....The season finale of LOST had the video ahead of the audio. Audio delay boxen, eat your heart out.

Short and informative as a gunshot . Thanks!

shanec
I think it depends on what source you have showing. I know if i have it on component 1 (Cable box) it shows what rez is coming in and if i have it on cable 3(RF Cable) it shows the program name.
Yes I have the cable box hooked up to both component 1 and to the RF input.

it does for some things.

from my yamaha5790 routed component video, it tells me that my dishnetwork 811 feeds it 1080i/60hz, while my DVD player feeds it 480p/60hz.

I don't remember if it tells me what my PS2 is feeding it only because I don't think I've checked.

For OTA, unfortunately, it doesn't give any indication of 1080i vs 720p.

FWIW, my HLR5067 seems to provide ruler-straight borders when I'm PS2'ing on Component2. I get a black border, IIRC.

OTA, SD material show a gray border that's also ruler-straight.
DishNetwork811, SD material show a black border that I believe is created by the sat-receiver.

now, I just checked my eyesight, so it's not that.

I'm very sensitive to hourglassing (as I call it in the computer monitor side of things) so I would definitely notice.

What's your SD source and via which input?

It's some Motorola box connected via coax - I'm getting a CableCard next week.

Anyone know anyway to adjust the size, input and position of the picture in picture without going through the video menus?

~Lance

Move the Dish vs DirecTV HD discussion off this thread, PLEEEAASSE.

That's normal. Its tough to project light in such a small enclosure without some distortion. Its actually less curved than it looks. Hold a straightedge up to your set. You'll be surprised at how slight the curve is. Mine is off less than 1/8 inch at the center.

- Collin

Thanks a lot guys!

Well, crap. I played O' Brother Where Art Thou today and had lip sync issues. Fairly signifigant too. The audio was off by about half of a word - whatever that amounts too.

My S97 DVD player has a delay setting, but its in the video menu. I'm not sure how delaying the video would help any when the video is already behind the audio. Maybe its a misnomer? So I turned that setting up as far as it would go to 100ms. This helped, but didn't completely fix, the problem. I'd say it made the problem tolerable.

Are there any really smart delay boxes out there? Something that merely keeps audio and video in sync regardless of which one needs to be delayed?

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doublecheck your DNR settings and make sure it's off, at least that'll save you one potential process. The manual (or something somewhere) stated that it's only really useful for cleaning up messy input (snow from OTA analog, I believe) which probably doesn't apply anymore.

then, check that disk on another TV and see if the transfer is especially dirty... if it is, then maybe the stupid DNIe is working too hard to clean it up. *sigh*

I should also mention there are complaints in the S97 brain dump thread about lip sync. So it could be my player. And my player has the latest firmware upgrade.

I'll check the DNR.

Update: DNR on my HLR-5667 was already off. BUT I noticed somehow my DVD player had been set for 480p, leaving the upconverting job to the TV. I switched the DVD player back to 720p and the problem was slightly improved - enough so that setting the delay parm to 100ms completely fixed the problem.

But I've still got OTA HD lip sync issues. Grrr...

In case there's any remaining doubt that the 'Info' button does show the resolution - at least for some formats, here are a couple examples.

Thanks for the Info :-) I confirmed I could get resolution by pushing Info with the HDMI feed running. But on my OTA input, there's no so much Info :-)

Using info button for OTA feeds (or DVD) does not show resolution....

Well, so much for breakfast!

I am the proud owner of a HLR5067W. Just wondering how you all clean your screen? I don't want to wreck mine when I have to clean it.

I use a micro fiber cloth. I use it dry if possible or damp not wet for more serious cleaning.

Micro fiber is the cloth that comes with new glasses and it won't scratch. You can wash it but be sure to stay away from anything that would leave a residue in the fabric.

I did a slow search of the RPTV forum and got 58 hits on microfiber so you can probably find some testimonials in that group.

It's available in auto supply stores in sizes more appropriate for wide screen TVs, but be sure to get only the cloth. Some of them come with cleaning or polishing compounds imbedded in the cloth.

Here are some links.

http://www.neatitems.com/micro.htm
http://www.microfiber.org/

They had microfiber cloth at Walmart a couple of weeks ago. Eight pack (14"x14") for ~$5. They work great for lots of stuff where you want to get the dust and leave no lint (car dash, glasses etc.).

Well, I didn't see a first impressions thread, so.....

Its day 3 for my HLR-5667. This is my 1st HDTV. I'm still stunned. Let me just say you have not seen Finding Nemo until you have seen it upscaled on a good big HDTV. If somebody had told me I was watching Finding Nemo on HD DVD, I would have believed it. There is a ton of detail there that I had never seen before - not detail only noticeable by a videosnob/phile, but stuff that would be obvious to anybody. It is simply stunning.

And that's the bad news too. Other DVDs - Fight Club, Monster, The Matrix all have moments where artifacts and film grain/dirt/etc are visible. These are all things that are mentioned on most online DVD reviews. I'd seldom ever seen them before. But now the stuff appears regularly. I suppose the artifacts (maybe its macroblocking...but my 97S player is upgraded to the latest firmware which should have fixed that...) are typically worst on dark, but not black, solid background colors (ie: the shadowy green background in The Oracle's kitchen in Matrix Revolutions). But the rest of the image is so stunning, I'm still very pleased with it and I'd never look back for a second.

DOes the TV guide feature only work when using coax? It says not supported when I have only HDMI connected

I've been using the thx opitmizer (that comes on some dvds) to fine tune the picture since I don't have the DVE or AVIA dvds.

I noticed on one of the video tests that the picture if offset in the vertical by around 10 mm ! Is this due to the DVD or the TV ? Anybody else notice this ?

Can anyone tell me the depth form the front of the TV to the point where it starts to narrow towards the back on the HLR 50?

Thx in advance...

Looks like you got some real estate on that stand for a 56"

Overall, looks great.