[JimL]

Would anyone else with the DTC-100 connected to a 36XBR450 please offer some guidance as to how they have their units set.


Installed a DTC100 last evening - initially I set the receiver to output to a 4:3 set since the 36XBR is not widescreeen - all 3 D* HD channels were extremely letterboxed and especially the HDNet rebroadcast of the Olympics hockey game and a night scene in a movie showing a full moon, the moon wasn't round - but slightly oblong- all other regular channels were letterboxed also but not to the degree the HD channels were - figured an oblong moon - this setting can't be right.


Changed setting to 16:9 widescreen and the picture expanded and not as extremely letterboxed on the HD channels - all regular channels became windowboxed - I thought all was well and this was the correct setting until a movie trailer and an HDNet advertisement came on and the HDNet logo and some of the movie title was cut off on the right edge of the screen, so now I wonder if my settings are correct and how others have theirs set.


Thank You.

 

[RScogland]

Set the RCA and TV to 16:9 widescreen. Use a RGB-to-component video transcoder so you can use the video-5 input on the TV (and scroll thru to display video-5). Make sure the "HD monitor" on the RCA is lit. When the programming shown is 16:9 it will fill the width of your screen. When the programming shown is 4:3 you will have bars on all four sides. This is normal, and there is no way around it, so most people also use another video connection for viewing non-widescreen material (which also requires turning off the HD monitor button on the RCA). You could try s-video for that, but I actually found that composite video works better with this set (unless there were changes from the XBR400 version). To make flipping between video inputs easier, I suggest a learning remote with macros so one button does all the switching.

 

[JimL]

Thank you - this is how I felt the set looked best - until the red and blue speckles appeared on only the 3 HD channels after only 1-1/2 hours of viewing pleasure - and naturally RCA NEVER heard of this.

 

[RScogland]

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Originally posted by JimL red and blue speckles appeared on only the 3 HD channels after only 1-1/2 hours of viewing pleasure - and naturally RCA NEVER heard of this.

Neither have I. I only have obvious potential solutions for that, but I bet you've already tried them, so I wont feed you the "test all connections" routine.