Official Hitachi Plasma HDTV Thread - HDT52, HDT51, HDS52, HDF52 ... - Page 59

XBOX360 - audio cables plugged into also, the red/white ones?
PS3 - configured it to output audio on the HDMI connection?
XA1 - same as PS3.

Brian, Lag, Dog: I, too, have the artifact on my display. It's the blue vertical line originating from the upper left side. It starts out clean at the beginning of the day, but appears within minutes and persists. Mine is well out of warranty and I did not purchase the extension. I guess I'll find out now if it was worth it. However, this is starting to look like a generic problem with this model. I'm sure we're not the only 4 individuals experiencing this issue. Hitachi should at least provide us with replacement parts.

RE: my 55HDX61 blue line.......They are picking my set up on Saturday (just in time for the championship game on Monday ) The tech on the phone said it shouldn't really take that long to fix and I will probably have the set back no later than Tuesday. Still not sure if it's the buffer board that they are fixing on mine, but will report back when I know for sure.

Just giving everyone an update. Three days after the repair was made the line came back on. This time for at least four hours. (Its still there now) I am getting a little nervous at this point after doing a little more reading about how some of these extended warranties work Also considering that the repair guy told me that plasmas can't be repaired Well, back to phone tomorrow to see what's the next step. This kinda sucks after dishing out six grand for a tv and five hundred for a four year extention. What a sucker! Maybe we can move this to a separate forum so more people can see it. I gotta believe more people are having these issues. Maybe other people have had success getting things fixed or replaced.

Is there a way to make the info from the TV Guide appear when the Info button is clicked? Currently when i click info most of the info is blank. Only useful stuff is whether the source is 480/720/1080/i/p.

Maybe some more info. is in order...I do not have a cable box...the cable goes directly into the RF input on the tv...I ran a channel auto-scan...the TV Guide is populated with all the channels with up to date programming information.
It's kind of annoying to launch the TV Guide anytime I want to find out what program is currently playing on the current channel...The INFO button should do that job.
I tried the channel list manager. But there doesn't seem to be a way to edit the Channel ID. I am thinking if somehow the channel Id is set then the information could be gathered from the TV Guide.
But the Channel list manager seems to only allow editing FAV, OFF/ON and lock.

I've posted this in the newer thread too but still no response.

[quote=bleary]Is there a way to make the info from the TV Guide appear when the Info button is clicked? Currently when i click info most of the info is blank. Only useful stuff is whether the source is 480/720/1080/i/p.

Try hitting the info button again. It works for ota. I don't have cable. Good Luck!

[quote=Brian Boe]
Tried it already...there's no description all blank...appreciate the response.

does anyone own the Hitachi 42PD8900TA 42 " plasma?

[quote=bleary]
If you have a cable card, then all this is stripped out (with Comcast).

If you do not have a cable card, then some of the info is there (with Comcast).

[quote=JamesMH]
Sorry I forgot to mention about CableCard.
I do have a CableCARD but I have it unplugged and I believe the TV Guide populated on its own from one of the PBS channels. I am sure it has not used cableCARD for this as I have that unplugged for more than a week.
But I still don't see any info. Strangely it shows only for some shows, like the Orange ball which was going on yesterday. And then still it showed only the start and end time and the Channel Id, but the description was all blank.

[quote=bleary]
The info button without guide displayed, shows the programme information within the channel data itself.
The info button with the guide displayed, shows the programme information within the tvguide data itself, usually tranmistted on a local analogue PBS channel.

I have found that Comcast strips a lot of the channel data out, if you use the OTA, you will usually get the programme information on FOX/CW/MyTV channels. Sometimes I get the programme name, but not very often with cabletv.

With the cablecard, I never got any individual channel data.

A quick update (in case anyone is following along with this at home). Further to my problems with Xbox 360, PS3 and HD-XA1 getting along with my new 42HDS69 -

After a chat with a Hitachi customer service rep (you gotta give them credit - this guy - an American, too - was working at 10:00 PM new year's eve!), I tackled the problem with a fresh mind.

After several more hours, I solved the problem. I originally had all three components hooked up to a 1080p LCD display, which the Hitachi is replacing. Thus, all the components were set to higher rez's than the Hitachi could support (at least in the case of the PS3 @ 1080p) The HD-XA1 I had to set video output at 760p to get a picture and sound on the Hitachi (not sure why 1080i wouldn't work) and the Xbox 360 would only produce a picture when I set the switch on its component cable to regular TV (not HD), then set the video output to 760p, then switch it back to HD.

The funny thing is that if I didn't still have the 1080p monitor at home, I wouldn't have been able to get ANY picture on the PS3 to change the video settings.

Don't you love personal electronics?

Best, Scott

[quote=JamesMH]
Thanks James ! I am satisfied with your answer. I give up and I'll quit fiddling with the remote... guess new years resolution...

Anyone havin in luck getting the red/green/blue lines on your screen repaired?

Hello All:

I have a 42HDS69 hooked up to a Scientific Atlanta HD set top box via component video. When trying to watch HD programming in the "16:9 Standard 1" setting the picture is about 1" to low and about 1/4 to 1/2" to far to the right. Can someone please let me know how I can adjust this?

Thanks.

Jerry

just bought the 42HDX99 with my Delta AMEX Card so I got the two year warranty upped to 3 years. $2450 to my door. It's a great set. Very happy.

When the anlogue channels via OTA/Cable go dark, how will these tv's such as the 42HDX99/42HDT52 get their TVGuide info?

Has anyone got any info from Hitachi on this? They coming out with a firmware fix, so that the tvs can get data over a digital channel? Otherwise these TVGuide listings haven't got much life in them.

So I read a lot of this thread, and it seems the people who bought it really like it, but I was wondering from the people who have extensively compared it to other Plasmas or own other plasma think about it. I hear stuff about weird artifacts (motion degradation, color gradation) and I was wondering if this was noticed by any current owners?

I own the 42hdx62 and the 42hdx99 and I find them to be first-rate plasmas, a notch below the elites, on par with the pioneer pdps and better than samsung and panny models.

have not had any problems at all with the color, screen, etc and love the swivel stand.

Hi all! I need help on a possible product substitution switch.

I bought a Directors Series 55hdx62 august 2006, and it had pixellation issues. Eventually, it was replaced by Hitachi. It was all handled by the dealer I purchased the original x62 thru. When the replacement was delivered it was a model 55hdm71. The store said it was a model number difference and they were the same. But research on the web is telling me different. I am no video-phile, and the technical jargon is leaving me confused. Can anyone tell me if the 55hdm71 is an equal swap-out to a 55hdx62? I need technical advice on the differences and performance of the 2. also, is there a tech source that is reliable and trusted to give me help here?

Help!

It's not the same level of panel I don't believe. Your's was the best version. I'm not sure if the 55hdm71 was released the same year, but I believe it was the consumer grade monitor version of their standard panel.

I would be very interested to know if the video circuity in the "Director's Series" is any different from the others. The X62 series is now available through Sam's Club (I assume it's discontinued), but if the differences are cosmetic only or audio, the price difference is not worth it to me.

MarkY_Mark: does consumer panel imply it is not as good as the home theater users panel on the x62? If so, thats one difference i need the store to account for.

Jim Noble: I agree, and if there is a price difference and the m71 is not as good as the x62, somebody owes me some money back.

Thanks for the replies, any info I get is a help.

DamnWalker, I am not sure. Hitachi's website sucks, and all I could find on AVS, I think they were both 2005 models, and there was some mention of the 55hdm71 being a professional model, but I'm not sure. They have so many different panels and their numbers change so drastically each year that I can't remember all the details. I would try to make the store replace apples with apples though. If I had a directors series, I'd want one for a replacement as well, even if they had to give you this years model. That's what the warranty is all about.

Good luck,
Mark

DW - These are not the same. The HDM (Professional line) and HDX (Director's series) series do have their differences. The HDM is only 8-bit/16.7M colors while the HDX is 12 bit/68B colors. You lose the two HDMI connections (HDM has one DVI, HDX two HDMIs). Speakers are also optional on the HDM, not sure if your replacement came with them (if you even need them). And the remotes are waaay different.

http://www.hitachi.us/tv/browse/pro_.../55HDM71.shtml

http://www.hitachi.us/tv/browse/plas.../55hdx62.shtml

Good luck!

NO, not at all.

The 55hdm71 is a monitor, NOT a television, no tuners.
They should have replaced it with an 55HDX99. http://www.hitachi.us/tv/browse/plas.../55hdx99.shtml

It sounds like the dealer has some explaining to do!

Completely agreed with all those who posted above. The M series is a much lower model and technically not even a TV as mentioned. The X series is the top of the line model worth much more money.

I would like to think the dealer made an error, but I have a hard time believing a dealer wouldn't know the difference between these two sets. In short, the model number is different because it is a different product! As noted above, this years version of the television is the 55HDX99.

I recently got a 42HDX62A for $2000. Given what is on the market today, is this a good value, ie. (picture quality + features)/price ?

The fan is on all the time in standby. I can hear it in a quite room. Is this normal ?

With the IEEE1394 DTVLink can I plug in a std Firewire HDD and record via TVGuide ?

Hi,

I'm looking for Linux modeline setting for Hitachi 42" plasma model 42HDS69.

Manual states it has 1024 x 1080 display resolution.

I know that there are powerstrip, moninfo and videogen methods to get it, but I would rather get a known working setting.

I have looked at mythtv wiki and modeline databases but i could not find modeline for this model.

Thanks,