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  1. Stephen Hopkins

    Problems with Philips 30PW850H (30" HDTV)

    Color is the only difference. If you can find it you may want to get the older 44BK / SL. It's pretty much the same player with all the same features but also has a region-free hack available if that's anything that interests you.
  2. Stephen Hopkins

    Problems with Philips 30PW850H (30" HDTV)

    The first step is very good for non-anamorphic material with only minimal over-zoom, most of which is due to the TV's overscan anyway.
  3. Stephen Hopkins

    Problems with Philips 30PW850H (30" HDTV)

    Ok, that clears it up. What was really tough for me was figuring out a way to get 1080i test patterns to my set. I finally copied some test patterns on to a DVD-R and used my Bravo D1 to scale them to 1080i (it'll scale over component for non-copyrighted discs). Either way, once the geometry is...
  4. Stephen Hopkins

    Problems with Philips 30PW850H (30" HDTV)

    I don't see how the input affects what he's calling "broken up by horizontal lines that interfered especially with straight or curved lines in the picture". That sounds like either geometry or a problem with the source.
  5. Stephen Hopkins

    Problems with Philips 30PW850H (30" HDTV)

    An easy fix for your "lock in full" mode is a DVD player that pillar-boxes 4:3 material allowing it to be displayed properly on "lock in full" 16:9 displays. I got a JVC 40BK player for $45 from ecost for this purpose. It also has the propper zoom settings for non-anamorphic 16:9 movies which...
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