Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Miller
On Sunday 23 January 2005 3:53 pm, Brad Templeton wrote: > Not clear on which situations you have tried. Almost all DVD > players and HD set top boxes (cable, satellite) today will have a > setup uption to tell it if your TV is 16:9 or 4:3. Have you set > this, and which one works on your TV?

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:37:42PM -0600, Paul Miller wrote: > I did quite a bit of messing around with the television and video card > yesterday. I believe that all HD sources must be in 16:9 format, > regardless of what they are outputting to. So, I think you are > partially right with (c),

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Miller
I did quite a bit of messing around with the television and video card yesterday. I believe that all HD sources must be in 16:9 format, regardless of what they are outputting to. So, I think you are partially right with (c), but the television automatically adds the black bars on the top and

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-22 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 08:18:44PM -0600, Paul Miller wrote: > > I read somewhere that all HD sources use a 16:9 aspect ratio. My > television is 4:3. Should the DVI signal still be 16:9? DVI contains no information on aspect ratio, as far as I know, it's a digital version of component video.

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-22 Thread Paul Miller
I read somewhere that all HD sources use a 16:9 aspect ratio. My television is 4:3. Should the DVI signal still be 16:9? Here are some of my results: 1080i (1920x1080 interlaced): no display; does not appear to be supported by ATI's binary driver. The Windows driver has an option to "forc

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-22 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From what I have seen, most HDTVs really only take > 1080i, they need > an interlaced mode. > > What amazes me is that they don't just make them > take 1080p. I mean > there are computer monitors that cost $200 these > days that can do > that, th

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-22 Thread Brad Templeton
> To me it looks like the horizontal resolution is provided with an > aspect ratio such that the vertical resolution can be determined for > each standard timing identification. Anyhow, the EDID information > that I previously posted clearly came from my TV. ATI's windows > driver recognizes

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-22 Thread Paul Miller
On Saturday 22 January 2005 3:18 pm, Preston Crow wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 16:04, Paul Miller wrote: > > I have a Sony KV-27HS420 HDTV and an ATI Radeon 9700 AIW Pro, and > > I'm trying to configure X such that my display works with the > > DVI/HDMI interface. I used read-edid | parse-edid t

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-22 Thread Preston Crow
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 16:04, Paul Miller wrote: > I have a Sony KV-27HS420 HDTV and an ATI Radeon 9700 AIW Pro, and I'm > trying to configure X such that my display works with the DVI/HDMI > interface. I used read-edid | parse-edid to obtain the modeline > settings below. Mode 720x480 works we

[mythtv-users] DVI to Sony HS420 series HDTV

2005-01-22 Thread Paul Miller
I have a Sony KV-27HS420 HDTV and an ATI Radeon 9700 AIW Pro, and I'm trying to configure X such that my display works with the DVI/HDMI interface. I used read-edid | parse-edid to obtain the modeline settings below. Mode 720x480 works well so long I don't switch to different inputs on the T