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Hi - got this television (a silver one) last week and have been toying with the settings and connections since - I must say the picture via my digibox and DVD player/recorder (SUMVISION SV-1000) via AV1(RGB) look awesome (better than most lcds I see on display in shops) and even the picture via co-axial is pretty good. I too was confused by the av1/av1rgb issue mentioned above but a bit of toying around cleared up the confusion. It's easier if I just tell U the story (bear in mind I'm not that AVsavvy!)
I have a run-of-the-mill sky digibox, an SV-1000 (SUMVISION) DVD recorder/player, and an XBOX (not 360 as yet!). Out of the box I connected the tv to the aerial lead (ie coaxial) via the digibox and let it get on with auto-tuning (didnt connect anything to AV1/2/3 yet). Once it was through I renamed and rejigged the channel positions BBC1_BBC2_ITV etc using the supplied instructions. Then I connected my digibox via one of the scarts on the digibox (doesnt seem to matter which U use and U only need one anyway so I chose the TV out one) to my SCART-IN on the DVD recorder and then the SCART-OUT from the DVD recorder to AV1. I set the digibox remote controller up with code 653 so that pressing the sky button flicks to sky on CH6 on the TV. I also set my skybox to output 16/9 picture ratio via the system setup. However the SKY picture via AV1 (SCART) looked slightly better than SKY via CH6 so I was watching SKY via AV1 (which is routed through the dvd recorder as above). I then noticed that pressing the AV button again on my TV remote gave AV1 RGB but it was a monochrome (blue) picture which came up - I was puzzled by this but a bit of tinkering and an accidental discovery cured this - In the DVD recorder menu settings there were 2 settings for output picture format - CVBS (coaxial) and RGB both via the scart lead to AV1 - It was set to CVBS by default - so I changed this to RGB and WHOA! the picture instantly became much more vibrant and defined. Now when I press the AV button on the TV remote the TV automatically selects AV1 RGB. If I press it again it goes to AV1 RGB again as before but now the picture is full colour (no longer monochrome blue) but is the same quality as AV1 since the TV automatically detects the RGB input and lets you know via the little blue channel icon which pops up. I hope this isn't too confusing!! The crucial thing to get from this is that if you flick to AV1 (say from CH4 terrestial) the blue icon should flash up as AV1 RGB and not just AV1. If just AV1 appears then you are watching essentially a picture via co-axial which is inferior to RGB even though it is going via a SCART lead. AV2 doesnt seem to do this so to play safe I just watch SKY via my DVD recorder as above (AV1) and have the XBOX plugged into AV2 via its SCART adaptor. This way only one SCART lead coming out of the digibox is neccesary.
If anyone has any other advice I'm all ears! |
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Author: Koolvin1
1-12-2019 22:35:00