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We bought a Tau 34wx50 early this year and we like it. We haven't really tested its full capabilities yet, although we hope to soon. It's a nice size for us and has a very good picture on our cable digital movie channels and on most other channels, depending on the quality and the source. It's fun to zoom the occasional letterboxed cable movie to full width, without much loss in quality.
My question isn't one of any great importance, just about something that has nagged at me a bit, and I wondered if anyone else had encountered it.
Our cable digital box (Motorola DCT 2000) has both composite and S-video outputs. Initially, we tried the S-video, but switched to the composite output because of the following problem using the S-video output.
The display, with the aspect ratio set to NORMAL (or anything else), would jump to WIDE and back to NORMAL with varying frequency. On some channels, it would be rare; on most, it would be occasional, on others, it would be every few seconds. I recognize that WIDE isn't one of the aspect ratio choices, but that's what the Tau reported. That is, if one has recently changed the aspect ratio, there is a small time lag where the display of the aspect ratio setting is still on screen. On some occasions, the display would jump so soon after such a change that we could see what aspect ratio we had unwillingly jumped to.
I "spoke" to Panasonic customer assistance by email and they suggested that we should get the set serviced. That might well be good advice, but it seemed like such a headache for something we could work-around and my fear was that the cure might be worse than ...
As well, this had the feel of some good programming intention gone somewhat awry, in combination with a signal that the Tau may never have been fully tested with. That is, I thought this problem might not just be a peculiarity of our set.
I did a search of this list and didn't find anything on this problem. My apologies if I missed something and this has already been dealt with.
I would be grateful for any advice or suggestions. Thanks.
My question isn't one of any great importance, just about something that has nagged at me a bit, and I wondered if anyone else had encountered it.
Our cable digital box (Motorola DCT 2000) has both composite and S-video outputs. Initially, we tried the S-video, but switched to the composite output because of the following problem using the S-video output.
The display, with the aspect ratio set to NORMAL (or anything else), would jump to WIDE and back to NORMAL with varying frequency. On some channels, it would be rare; on most, it would be occasional, on others, it would be every few seconds. I recognize that WIDE isn't one of the aspect ratio choices, but that's what the Tau reported. That is, if one has recently changed the aspect ratio, there is a small time lag where the display of the aspect ratio setting is still on screen. On some occasions, the display would jump so soon after such a change that we could see what aspect ratio we had unwillingly jumped to.
I "spoke" to Panasonic customer assistance by email and they suggested that we should get the set serviced. That might well be good advice, but it seemed like such a headache for something we could work-around and my fear was that the cure might be worse than ...
As well, this had the feel of some good programming intention gone somewhat awry, in combination with a signal that the Tau may never have been fully tested with. That is, I thought this problem might not just be a peculiarity of our set.
I did a search of this list and didn't find anything on this problem. My apologies if I missed something and this has already been dealt with.
I would be grateful for any advice or suggestions. Thanks.