Hi there folks, me again
sr78: It seemed almost impossible to get my hands on this wonderful DVD player the Philips DVD 963SA until I complained @ Philips CS about the appaling availability of player in general, especially the shop in Germany from which I ordered it.... Philips plainly told me: huh? delivery problems ? I can give you an address and phone number where they have it stock ! (Yeah right). But the impossible was made possible
, and they DID have it in stock (a lot of them) AND it was cheaper than in the e-shop where I ordered it from in the first place
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So cancelled my first order and then went to buy the player in the other shop along with a (temporary) component cable ( Bandridge Profigold 3 x RCA - 3 x RCA, 5 meters). I had planned to buy a component cable from
www.buejeanscable.com in the US (the Belden 7710A together with Canare RCAPs which is supposed to be very very good), but I couldn't wait for the cable to arrive in order to test out the quality of this connection vis-a-vis my Panny....
I guess the following is what you have been waiting for:
Although I have two problems which I will explain a little later and of which I hope one of you guys know the solution (sr78 ??), I can tell you that still the picture quality is WOAW !!! I have connected the DVD to my Panny PD30D through component and thus have a progressive signal, and again the picture as well as sound quality is really excellent !
Now the one of the two problems that I have is the following (keep in mind that I always use PAL region 2 DVD's - up to now at least ;-) :whenever I switch the DVD player into 'unprocessed' by accessing its picture menu and thus have a 525p singal I can see a light white bar appearing at the right hand side of the screen, which is a kind of shadow, not in solid colour, only noticeable when the picture is dark, some dark scenes like the beginning of the LOTR, or SWII AOTC.... Still a bit annoying though, and in tweaking the DVD player settings I could shift the picture a bit (again in the players' picture menu), and most if it is not there anymore, but still a bit.... Anyone know how to resolve this ?
This is not the case when 480p is set, picture is as solid as can be and really breathtaking, no white bar anymore ....
I guess this is not related to the TV-set and merely a flaw of the player (BTW, have firmware version 55804.81.22 _ 7.12.0)
The second problem that I have is (and I believe that this is again related to the player and not the TV) that on some DVD's (Changing Lanes, Babylon 5 series) the (DVD)menu seems to have a color problem. In accessing the DVD menu, pictures with persons on it for instance appear to have a blue face and for instance if you select a special feature like a trailer of the movie, this also appears to have moslty blue in it, as if reds were thrown out. This can be corrected when pressing the stop button on the player, then again pressing the DVD menu button ---> then colors are displayed a OK. Anyone has seen or experienced this before ?
Cheers,
akira70