Setting Up Cable DVR with Toshiba 52hm84

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Just a quick question.
I have a Motorola HD DVR installed by the local cable company. My new
TV is the Toshiba 52HM84. The DVR uses DVI and the TV has HDMI. I have
finally gotten an HDMI cable with a DVI convertor.

However, this was after my cable company installed everything. My
question is in configuring all of this I am looking at what setting
the DVI/yPbPr should be. I as I cycle thru the settings I see that it
can be set at 480P, 480I, 720P, and 1080i.

What should I have this set to.

I have tried them all and sometimes when I have it on 1080i and turn
on the TV the screen is cut in two. Have the picture is on one side of
the screen and the other half on the other side.

Any help in setting this up would be appreciated.

Thanks

Bill

 

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On 13 Jan 2005 12:15:53 -0800, in article
<520de8e8.0501131215.7de5bb79@posting.google.com>, blfm@hotmail.com
(blfm) wrote:

>Just a quick question.
>I have a Motorola HD DVR installed by the local cable company. My new
>TV is the Toshiba 52HM84. The DVR uses DVI and the TV has HDMI. I have
>finally gotten an HDMI cable with a DVI convertor.
>
>However, this was after my cable company installed everything. My
>question is in configuring all of this I am looking at what setting
>the DVI/yPbPr should be. I as I cycle thru the settings I see that it
>can be set at 480P, 480I, 720P, and 1080i.
>
>What should I have this set to.

With a DLP set you should probably use 720p.

>I have tried them all and sometimes when I have it on 1080i and turn
>on the TV the screen is cut in two. Have the picture is on one side of
>the screen and the other half on the other side.

Just bring up the guide then exit, the picture should fix itself.
--
Stephen Tu
stephtu@surfbest.net

 

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blfm wrote:
>
> Just a quick question.
> I have a Motorola HD DVR installed by the local cable company. My new
> TV is the Toshiba 52HM84. The DVR uses DVI and the TV has HDMI. I have
> finally gotten an HDMI cable with a DVI convertor.
>
> However, this was after my cable company installed everything. My
> question is in configuring all of this I am looking at what setting
> the DVI/yPbPr should be. I as I cycle thru the settings I see that it
> can be set at 480P, 480I, 720P, and 1080i.
>
> What should I have this set to.
>
> I have tried them all and sometimes when I have it on 1080i and turn
> on the TV the screen is cut in two. Have the picture is on one side of
> the screen and the other half on the other side.
>
> Any help in setting this up would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill

I use DVI Cable between my TWC SA-3250-HD Cable Box & my Sony 34HS510
CRT HDTV..

Note: HDMI Cable is both Video & Audio... DVI is Video Signal
only...
Both are pass thru Digital streams....
HDMI may only support Dolby Digital 2.0 Audio, not DD
5.1?

The Cable Box Menu should be 'checked' for all the options your
HDTV
supports: 1080i, 720p?, 480pwide, 480p, 480i, 480iwide

Your Cable Box 'remote' menu should be set to DVI Video

Your HDTV menu should be 'switched to' the DVI Input Video port

With this set up.... The HDTV 'guts' do all the Video Digital
Signal Processing....
and the Cable Box merely does the QAM convert & passes
Digital
Signal thru to the HDTV... Usually for the 'Better'
HDTVs,
the HDTV has better Digital Picture processing than the
Cable Box..

 

[tommyd]

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Power off the box and tv, then reconnect the cable. If the picture is
split right side on the left half and the left side on the right, power the
cable box off and on.
I had the same problem with my 52hm94.
I use the 720P output from the box. It's the tv's default. So, if your
box is set to default 1080i, it takes the channel frees that are already
720P and converts it to 1080i, sends it to the tv and the tv has to
reconvert it to 720P. Too much processing IMO.
The downside is if the tv has a better converter than the box, 1080i channel
feeds won't look the best it could. But, it still looks very good to me.
tomd

"blfm" <blfm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:520de8e8.0501131215.7de5bb79@posting.google.com...
> Just a quick question.
> I have a Motorola HD DVR installed by the local cable company. My new
> TV is the Toshiba 52HM84. The DVR uses DVI and the TV has HDMI. I have
> finally gotten an HDMI cable with a DVI convertor.
>
> However, this was after my cable company installed everything. My
> question is in configuring all of this I am looking at what setting
> the DVI/yPbPr should be. I as I cycle thru the settings I see that it
> can be set at 480P, 480I, 720P, and 1080i.
>
> What should I have this set to.
>
> I have tried them all and sometimes when I have it on 1080i and turn
> on the TV the screen is cut in two. Have the picture is on one side of
> the screen and the other half on the other side.
>
> Any help in setting this up would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill

 

[jeffrey]

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blfm wrote:
> Just a quick question.
> I have a Motorola HD DVR installed by the local cable company. My new
> TV is the Toshiba 52HM84. The DVR uses DVI and the TV has HDMI. I have
> finally gotten an HDMI cable with a DVI convertor.
>
> However, this was after my cable company installed everything. My
> question is in configuring all of this I am looking at what setting
> the DVI/yPbPr should be. I as I cycle thru the settings I see that it
> can be set at 480P, 480I, 720P, and 1080i.
>
> What should I have this set to.
>
> I have tried them all and sometimes when I have it on 1080i and turn
> on the TV the screen is cut in two. Have the picture is on one side of
> the screen and the other half on the other side.
>
> Any help in setting this up would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill

I got the same Motorola hd dvr. The cable guy told me dvi will now work
till june 2005. when they update the software.

 

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blfm@hotmail.com (blfm) wrote:


>I have tried them all and sometimes when I have it on 1080i and turn
>on the TV the screen is cut in two. Have the picture is on one side of
>the screen and the other half on the other side.

This happens on mine too, with the DVI cable. I just hit pause and play, and it
fixes itself.

Jeff