PS3 "Disabling" My TV - Any ideas?

I think theres a menu setting for game resolution and a setting for menu resolution. Look around for Game Output settings I think. I wish I could help more but I wont have a ps3 till friday lol.

Welcome cheapyd.

I can only recommend trying a 2nd HDMI port if your plasma has one. If it still has issues, use a different HDMI cord perhaps. And if all else fails, get the component cables for a PS2 and try those.

Well, considering you have an xbox 360 that runs fine, i'm assuming that your TV doesn't have any trouble receiving an HD signal.

Because of that, my guess would be that either your system is having trouble outputting the signal, or your TV's HDMI port is defective.

If you can, try your PS3 on another TV with HDMI. That'll narrow it down for you.

Also the PS3 required firmware updates right out of the box to play a couple games (Madden and RFOM off the top of my head) you might want to check that out as well.

Yes, def. check out the firmware upgrades.

Perhaps the HDMI output is not turned on right out of the box. Check to see if there is an option to turn it on in the menus. This was the case on my Toshiba HD-DVD, I connected the rca video cable and went to the menu to turn on the HDMI output and then, I got picture through the HDMI.

Good luck,

Ian B

Definitely try it out on another TV to see if it's the PS3 or the TV.

The recipe to a successful HDCP handshake:

1) Make sure the source device is set to ouput via HDMI.
2) Turn the source device off.
3) Turn on the display and ensure the HDMI input is set correctly.
4) Turn the source device back on.

Problem solved.

In rare cases, you might have to do a first hook-up using composite or component cables to set the source device to ouput via HDMI.

In most cases, you are fine if you turn on and configure your display HDMI input before your turn on the source device.

CHEAPYD! Our Man In Japan. You jokers know Cheapy's a big celebrity right? www.cheapassgamer.com.....Bloomberg TV.....his website is the only reason I can afford to buy all this HT junk by getting me my games on the cheap

Anyhow....this ALMOST sounds tome like an HDMI handshake issue. Like once the game starts loading, the HDMI loses sync and breaks the connection, hence you don't see anything. But then the whole TV locking up thing....thats definately a page from bizarro world. IMHO? We're seeing our first glimpses of HDMI 1.3 incompatibilities.

But I also think we're going to be seeing an awul lot of issues like this in the weeks to come. HDMI is quirky as hell to begin with. Now with Sony pushing HDMI 1.3, god only knows the number of incompatibilities that we're going to see start cropping up.

While this may not sound like an ideal solution...until we see some firmware patches....Go Component. 98% of the video quality.

PS: Cheapy whats the native rez of that set....its a 1366x768 set or....???

Uhhhhhhhhhhh...unless its a japan-only feature, the PS3 doesn't upscale DVD's......(Unless they snuck that in at the last minute!). Its one of those big features that was missing from the unit that made people scratch their heads.

Unless thats addressed in the update you download the first time you sign on the PS3 online....

Does your TV do a lousy job upscaling to its native rez then?

HDTV internal upscale is a tricky thing. I am familiar with Sony and Samsung's tools and they can upscale on any cable type. Only a dedicated player such as an upscale DVD unit must use HDMI. Some TV's will only give you the upscale option when you set the source to 480i as well. 480p can shut these tools down.

The PS3 it's self will not upscale your DVDs though. Try running a 480i source and see if your TV gives the upscale option to you. I'm not sure you can push 480i over HDMI though. On my 1080p DLP, 480i over HDMI results in signal loss.

Aren't Japanese games PAL, not NTSC? Oh, but i see now that you are in Tokyo so nevermind.

All fixed-pixel devices (Plasma, LCD, Lycos, SXRD, etc) upscale what you are watching, because they can't display anything else. If your plasma is 720p then its been upscaling every source that goes into it to 720p. Your cable, your DVD Player through component, your SNES via Composite...its all being converted to 720p because thats all the display can output.

An upscaling DVD player will simply do the conversion at the source rather than sending a 480p signal to your 720p display and letting the display turn it into 720p.

The arguement is that its better to convert at the source than at the destination, but this rule doesn't always apply.

Cheapy, suggest you take a trip to the local Super-Electronics-Hyper-Mart in your neighborhood and buy a standard upscaling DVD player with HDMI out, just to try and see if the image is better than what you're going to get with the TV alone doing the upscaling.

By the lock up of your TV, it seems more like your tv's problem. I was playing ps3 in a showroom yesterday with a panny projector through HDMI, and I don't see any problem. The sales told me he had already upgrade ps3's firmware.

Just a question, when you play your ps2 with component, is it full screen on your plasma or not with side bars?

CheapyD

Ive learned that there is a auto HDMI setup built into the PS3. They say to do the following:

Turn on TV and set input to HDMI port being used
Make sure PS3 is connected via HDMI
Power on PS3 via power button and HOLD IT for 5 seconds. It should automagically configure your PS3 to the TV's native res for all settings. Give it a try.

Enjoy your ps3 baby! Im looking forward to mine as well!

Sony Rules, they're really thought of everything.

...can you re-set the HDMI output again like you did before to get it to recognize both now that you have the Optical Output set to the TOSLINK connector?? Maybe the setup is smarter than we think it is.

Running the optical cable from the TV to the receiver, the TV is probably converting the HDMI audio to 2 channel stereo....which is then output to your receiver, which is why you're only seeing Dolby prologic II (its designed to be used with Stereo L/R sources).

Dont give up the 5.1 surround, thats for sure......

Nows about the time to start bitching about how every universal remote ever made so far (including $10,000+ home automation systems) are now rendered useless since the PS3 has no legacy IR port, its bluetooth only......bastards...

Let us know if re-running the auto set-up with Audio Output set to Optical Digital gets both proper HDMI video output and proper Optical Digital output to your receiver.

I must this is a big worry at this point for early adopters.

Knowing Sony, they might assume people will go HDMI end to end. I hope it's not the case or they can take it back.