My 1031q came yesterday, so I hooked it up and did a quick focus and convergence. The picture looks very good...except for a very nasty ghosting problem, and also what looks like a horizontal moire pattern that spans the width of the screen and randomly shoots up and down the screen - like the sync isn't very stable or something?? BTW: it even exhibits this behavior on still images, so it's not really moire - but it looks very similar
I had it hooked up to a HTPC running at 864x486 60hz negative sync, using a custom built 25 foot VGA cable made out of Shielded Cat5 - as many here have done. After seeing the nasty ghosting (4 or 5 deep) and also moire (maybe not the right term, but that's sorta what it looks like) I figured that was a no-go. So I shortened that cable to about 10 inches and hooked that to a high quality (only 2 feet long) VGA extender cable. To my surprise, it didn't make a lick of difference!! Now I'm totally puzzled as to what the problem is. My solder job on the 10 inch adapter cable isn't the best, but I can't imagine it being THAT bad.
The pinout I'm using with the shielded Cat5 adapter is:
HD15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DB25
---------------------------------------------------------------
1 Orange solid. . . . . . . . 6 Orange solid // Red
2 Green solid . . . . . . . . 5 Green solid // Green
3 Blue solid . . . . . . . . . . 4 Blue solid // Blue
6 Orange stripe . . . . . . 15 Orange solid
7 Green stripe . . . . . . . 16 Green solid
8 Blue stripe . . . . . . . . . 17 Blue solid
13 brown solid . . . . . . . . 3 Brown solid // Horizontal sync ?
14 brown stripe . . . . . . . 3 Brown stripe // Vertical sync ?
I haven't tried composite yet - I need to get a Coax to BNC adapter from rat shack.
Even with all the image problems, DVD's look better than I expected, especially since I've never converged a projector before. I can't imagine how good it will look once I get the ghosting and moire problems fixed and I get better at focusing and converging.
Any help would be appreciated!
BTW: The convergence on this unit was fairly easy. and every line on the grid came out straight as an arrow. Even the image on my 21 monitor isn't as perfectly straight as the lines on my 1031q
But for some reason the green didn't focus as well as blue and red

I had it hooked up to a HTPC running at 864x486 60hz negative sync, using a custom built 25 foot VGA cable made out of Shielded Cat5 - as many here have done. After seeing the nasty ghosting (4 or 5 deep) and also moire (maybe not the right term, but that's sorta what it looks like) I figured that was a no-go. So I shortened that cable to about 10 inches and hooked that to a high quality (only 2 feet long) VGA extender cable. To my surprise, it didn't make a lick of difference!! Now I'm totally puzzled as to what the problem is. My solder job on the 10 inch adapter cable isn't the best, but I can't imagine it being THAT bad.
The pinout I'm using with the shielded Cat5 adapter is:
HD15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DB25
---------------------------------------------------------------
1 Orange solid. . . . . . . . 6 Orange solid // Red
2 Green solid . . . . . . . . 5 Green solid // Green
3 Blue solid . . . . . . . . . . 4 Blue solid // Blue
6 Orange stripe . . . . . . 15 Orange solid
7 Green stripe . . . . . . . 16 Green solid
8 Blue stripe . . . . . . . . . 17 Blue solid
13 brown solid . . . . . . . . 3 Brown solid // Horizontal sync ?
14 brown stripe . . . . . . . 3 Brown stripe // Vertical sync ?
I haven't tried composite yet - I need to get a Coax to BNC adapter from rat shack.
Even with all the image problems, DVD's look better than I expected, especially since I've never converged a projector before. I can't imagine how good it will look once I get the ghosting and moire problems fixed and I get better at focusing and converging.
Any help would be appreciated!
BTW: The convergence on this unit was fairly easy. and every line on the grid came out straight as an arrow. Even the image on my 21 monitor isn't as perfectly straight as the lines on my 1031q