Odd problem with wide switching.
 

I have been tinkering about with my plasma (37PA20B) & connections etc to
find the best possible picture. It was using RGB but the picture was good
but not great (I'm not really a fan of RGB anyhow) so I put an s-video lead
on via one of the scarts (only one scart end etc) & found I could only get
widescreen switching on BBC1?? Do they use line switching instead of pin
switching?

Anyhow, the s-video picture was miles better than RGB, but very strangely I
changed the sky box over to PAL instead of RGB & enables the 3d comb filter
& the picture is stunning. So I'm running it in composite mode & it's
amazing. There are no fuzzy edges as the 3d comb filter eliminates them
totally!

Strange but true!

Nige

Nige wrote:

I have been tinkering about with my plasma (37PA20B) & connections etc to
find the best possible picture. It was using RGB but the picture was good
but not great (I'm not really a fan of RGB anyhow) so I put an s-video lead
on via one of the scarts (only one scart end etc) & found I could only get
widescreen switching on BBC1?? Do they use line switching instead of pin
switching?


Not sure - I'll have to give it a try later on my LCD

Anyhow, the s-video picture was miles better than RGB, but very strangely I
changed the sky box over to PAL instead of RGB & enables the 3d comb filter
& the picture is stunning. So I'm running it in composite mode & it's
amazing. There are no fuzzy edges as the 3d comb filter eliminates them
totally!

Strange but true!


I've found exactly the same. As my Sky+ isn't here yet I'm in a
temporary setup with the old Sky digibox connected via composite to my
thomson 27" LCD. The picture is amazing - brighter and more natural than
RBS with zero colour bleed, no red push and virtually no fringing even
on text! The TV has a comb filter built in so this must be part of the
reason it looks so good.

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Trendy Uncle wrote:
Nige wrote:

I have been tinkering about with my plasma (37PA20B) & connections etc
to find the best possible picture. It was using RGB but the picture was
good but not great (I'm not really a fan of RGB anyhow) so I put an
s-video lead on via one of the scarts (only one scart end etc) & found
I could only get widescreen switching on BBC1?? Do they use line
switching instead of pin switching?


Not sure - I'll have to give it a try later on my LCD

They do use line switching :) It means I can record a widescreen programme
onto tape and the TV will automatically switch to widescreen when I play it
back.

Why can't everyone else on Sky Digital use line switching?

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