Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 99

I've read of some DVDRs, and someone found out OUR DVDRs, deactivate the lower-quality analog outputs if HDMI and/or Component are connected and ACTIVE... that is, the HDMI/Component outputs have to be IN USE simultaneously.

I've got all four types of connections to my HDTV from my 3575's and all become active when choosing that input on my TV, but there's some restriction if I were to run HDMI/Component to one TV and try to see the same thing on another TV thru Comp. or S-Video simultaneously.

Your individual output test will, however, show whether your box sends a pure WS signal to your TV over all connection types or not.

I saw this same thing in one of my thousands tests but just can't remember when or why... wracking my brain hoping something will fall out!

Do you have separate line connections (HDMI, Component, S-Vid or Comp.) from each box, the STB and the 3576, to your TV, each on a separate line input which you'd then select to see that box's output?

The coax from the 3576 to the TV is only a passthru for the TV's tuner so it can tune channels that aren't scrambled all by itself (for watching one channel on the TV while recording something on the 3576).

Now that's good news... my 3575's have never been in the teens with a HSD on mixed rec mode titles over 2 hours long! (Yours add up to 2.7 hours.)

If you ever get a chance to HSD a single, unedited (or with just a few simple edits) 2:xx:xx title, please post that time also?

By the way, I assume this test was with your 8X TY discs (-R or +R)?

Another good lesson on putting Monoprice in your speed-dial!

Those are good tests but also see if you can send same pic simultaneously via HDMI/Component and Composite or S-Video.

The only connection type that will be affected by the Progressive Scan setting is Component, and the 2160 manual states, and one user has found, that if Progressive Scan is turned on, there will be NO output from Composite or S-Video... so that Prog. Scan setting would be good to check also?

I found that ref. to seeing the same T1, T2, etc. It was in this post, where I said:

"This DVDR offers a menu when a CD with raw JPGs and AVIs is inserted asking if you want to play "Audio and Pics" or "Video" and you click OK on one or the other. JPGs play in a slideshow (if that's what you set it for in the General > CD Playback menu).

However, when you click on "Video" this DVDR sees the first AVI file and tries to read it, with "T1" (Title 1) in the machine's display, but nothing is displayed on screen. It changes the display to T2, T3, etc. and ratchets thru them in order trying to read and play them, but nothing appears on screen. The display stops changing after the last AVI title as if it had presented them all on screen, like the JPGs."

So, it had to do with playing AVI files from a CD that also had some JPG pics on it. My 3575 would play the JPGs but just ratchet thru the T1, T2, etc. when I selected "Video" to play rather that "Audio and Pics."

The 3575 should have recognized my AVI files as DivX/MPEG4, per the manual, but I got that odd response.

EDIT: I just realized one diff. that might mean something: when you put a disc in the 3576 that it doesn't like, like a VR-mode disc or unfinalized Video-mode disc from a Pio or Panny, a message immediately appears saying "unrecordable... " or some such, and all you an do is eject it.

With my mixed JPG and AVI CD, the disc was recognized and even part of the files were playable, but apparently the AVIs weren't in the form needed for my 3575 to play them, only address them by Title number, etc.

Your bad-boy +Rs were recognized as OK discs, but the titles themselves weren't playable, only addressable by number, like my AVIs. Something in the file structure can't be read by the 3575/3576 sufficiently or fully to make them playable, whereas other players aren't that fussy.

And I know none of this helps without a final and definitive answer, but I ain't got that yet and prob. never will?

Yes, when Progressive Scan is ON in the 2160, there won't be any output from Comp. or S-Vid from the 2160.

If you aren't using Component, just keep Progresive Scan off, which should be the default.

WTH, MIGHT AS WELL TRY IT NOW... I GOT IN TO LAST 2160 ORDER SCREEN!

Already got one at my Delivery Facility, Ship to Store, 5 days.