Rob Dawn
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- May 8, 2001
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I'm trying to help my Dad set up his HDTV cable box (Motorola box from Adelphia) with his Mitsu 65" HDTV (last year's model, probably 65513).
Whenever we switch the STB to pass anything other than 480i, we get a blank screen. We can tune the box to the HD channels and see the picture (down converted to 480i), but if we switch the box to 480p, 720p, or 1080i, we get no picture at all - the STB menu won't even display on the TV.
(Oh, and that down converted 480i picture is squashed vertically - the people look short and fat - with black bars on the top and bottom for some reason??)
I was thinking that I'll check that he has the component outputs from the STB going to the right input on the back of the TV and that we are using that input.
But any other ideas on things to check would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob
Whenever we switch the STB to pass anything other than 480i, we get a blank screen. We can tune the box to the HD channels and see the picture (down converted to 480i), but if we switch the box to 480p, 720p, or 1080i, we get no picture at all - the STB menu won't even display on the TV.
(Oh, and that down converted 480i picture is squashed vertically - the people look short and fat - with black bars on the top and bottom for some reason??)
I was thinking that I'll check that he has the component outputs from the STB going to the right input on the back of the TV and that we are using that input.
But any other ideas on things to check would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob