BritBoB
Established Member
Hi
I have noticed over the past few weeks that when I playback DVD's through my PS3 the brightness or maybe contrast flickers up and down every few minutes (ie the image will momenterily get brighter then return to normal, sometimes repeatedly like a strobe and sometimes just once). At first I thought it was just during darker scenes but have realised that it's all the time but it's just easier to notice in the darker scenes. Blu-Ray and game playing are absolutely fine it only seems to effect DVD's.
I have tried turning off the upscaler but the problem is still there. I have played with the picture settings on my TV but that makes no difference either. I have my PS3 set at auto output (TV only accepts RGB) with superwhite off and colour limited and I have all other PS3 AV settings off. My PS3 is connected to my plasma (older Hitachi 42PD5000) using and HDMI to DVI cable and the PS3 is set to 720p & 1080i output as this is the best the TV does.
I still have my old DVD player for multi region attached using component cables and there is no brightness flicker at all so I have gone back to using this but would love to be able to use the PS3 as the upscaling looks better than the old picture apart from the flicker which I now find too distracting.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be or how I might be able to fix it.
Thanks, Bob
I have noticed over the past few weeks that when I playback DVD's through my PS3 the brightness or maybe contrast flickers up and down every few minutes (ie the image will momenterily get brighter then return to normal, sometimes repeatedly like a strobe and sometimes just once). At first I thought it was just during darker scenes but have realised that it's all the time but it's just easier to notice in the darker scenes. Blu-Ray and game playing are absolutely fine it only seems to effect DVD's.
I have tried turning off the upscaler but the problem is still there. I have played with the picture settings on my TV but that makes no difference either. I have my PS3 set at auto output (TV only accepts RGB) with superwhite off and colour limited and I have all other PS3 AV settings off. My PS3 is connected to my plasma (older Hitachi 42PD5000) using and HDMI to DVI cable and the PS3 is set to 720p & 1080i output as this is the best the TV does.
I still have my old DVD player for multi region attached using component cables and there is no brightness flicker at all so I have gone back to using this but would love to be able to use the PS3 as the upscaling looks better than the old picture apart from the flicker which I now find too distracting.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be or how I might be able to fix it.
Thanks, Bob