Dont Bother With Hitachi Pd7200 Cheap Rubbish

[barong]

I purchased one of these due to reviews singing its praises to find. Hitachi dont want to talk to you if you encounter issues and its HDMI doesnt work correctly.

Funny enough at local makros was sell unbranded plasma for £600 which were 100 times better quality than the Hitachi.

I have connected my PC via DVI to hdmi and any windows you open displayed on the Hitachi via AV6 HDMI flickers like mad. Hitachi have said not their problem and said you should have bought another brand if i wanted HDMI to work correctly .

Not too much to ask you spend £2500 on a screen and want it to display SKY+ DVD and PC in reasonable quality at the moment everything looks like im watching VCD pirates.

 

[NonPayingMember]

Amen brother

 

[mjm2705]

Not too much to ask you spend £2500 on a screen and want it to display SKY+ DVD and PC in reasonable quality at the moment everything looks like im watching VCD pirates

Have you considred the possibility that you have a dodgy setup, cable, HDMI port etc etc?

Have you contacted your retailer to complain and demand an Engineer to visit?

I haven't tried HDMI or DVI on my 7200 yet (I've nothing to plug into them) but RGB Scart, Component and VGA @ 1024 x 768 all look fastastic.

 

[barong]

As stated before nothing to do with setup on a real plasma not cheaply made shuz would work fine.

Stick with the main manufacturers I think Sony as they seem to know what they are doing

 

[MAW]

Sony! It's a rebadged Hitachi, run for the hills!

 

[NonPayingMember]

Stick with the main manufacturers I think Sony as they seem to know what they are doing

Oh dear...

 

[GaryB]

As stated before nothing to do with setup on a real plasma not cheaply made shuz would work fine.

Stick with the main manufacturers I think Sony as they seem to know what they are doing

Not for the last 10 years they haven't.

 

[NonPayingMember]

What refresh rate did you set the PC too??? Anything other than 60Hz would probably cause flickering. Sky etc while still poo on a Hitachi, shouldn't look like VCD.... unless you are wiring up composite.

 

[barong]

Thanks liam and sorry to all others just a little peeved.

I have run the SKy+ to DVD Player via S-Video to scart then component out to plasma.
in AV4
I have a profi gold lscart lead direct from SKY to AV1 and still looks VCD Style.

The computer res is 1280x1024 @ 60hz

 

[mjm2705]

Thanks liam and sorry to all others just a little peeved.

I have run the SKy+ to DVD Player via S-Video to scart then component out to plasma.
in AV4
I have a profi gold lscart lead direct from SKY to AV1 and still looks VCD Style.

The computer res is 1280x1024 @ 60hz

For info ... my system is connected:

Sky+ ---> DVD Recorder ---> 7200 (RGB SCART)

DVD Player ---> 7200 (Component)

Laptop --- 7200 (VGA @ 1024 x 768)

And everything genuinly looks fine.

I'm always suspicious when S-Video is in play unless your sure all the equipment is setup to send and receive s-video correctly.

I highly suspect that swapping any TV for the 7200 in your current setup would make no difference.

 

[mjm2705]

Thanks liam and sorry to all others just a little peeved.

I have run the SKy+ to DVD Player via S-Video to scart then component out to plasma.
in AV4
I have a profi gold lscart lead direct from SKY to AV1 and still looks VCD Style.

The computer res is 1280x1024 @ 60hz

Just spotted your using AV1 for Sky ... AV1 is NOT RGB !!!

Try AV2 or AV3 !!

Easy mistake that one ...

 

[MAW]

Funny boys at Hitachi. The RGB scart numbers are different on every set they make, God knows why! But obviously, going into a composite only scart will not do anything for PQ!! But S-video into a dvdr then out with component ought to look OK, might or might not be the very best setup, but watchable.

 

[Peabo]

why s-video to scart to composite? Why not just RGB scart to RGB scart to composite? Shouldn't that look much better?

 

[MAW]

Repeat after me Peabo, component component component! Mantra for plasma owners. The difference between s-video and RGB can be tricky at times, it depends how the signal is handled if there is any difference, and indeed at times if s-video is better. Think about your own plasma, a soft scart, but excellent s-video handling. It's not unique either. Think of s-video as slightly cut down component.

 

[Muzzyboy]

Hmmmmm........

I take it you have read the numerous posts about how important it is to change the settings on this Plasma as the factory defaults are atrocious. The bad image you describe sounds like what it looks like un-calibrated.

Make sure you are using an RGB enabled scart and you have all devices set up to send/receive RGB, AV2 or AV3 on the PD7200.

I had reset my cable box last night and forgot to enable RGB. The picture was rubbish and was in composite, changed the settings on the cable box and voila crisp perfect RGB feed. Watched 'Timeline' (Sh*te) but cracking picture on SKY Movies 6.

DVD via component is also fantastic.

Again it took many hours and tweaking of all of the picture settings to get a great image.

It is very important to use good connections and equipment to feed this screen but when you do the picture really is good.

[email protected] in = [email protected] out.

 

[stanleyntl]

I have a pd7500, and it gives excellent results, even on SKY (Pace box).
And no problems with HDMI connected to a Panasonic player.

Suggestions : have you tried connecting PC via DVI or VGA - manual has a lot of settings concerning PC input, but only for RGB1 and RGB2 inputs - not HDMI!
Perhaps getting PC to handshake correctly with HDMI is expecting too much; whilst there are settings galore for setting up DVI correctly for PC use.

Hitachi could be showing up crap quality of your SKY+ box, whose maker has a bearing here : I believe Pace give best PQ and there are problems with Amstrad/ Thomson boxes.

 

[rudy]

hey guys,

I'm using scart leads and had the sky is set to rgb but I can't get the clear picture like before. What is wrong?(hitachi5200)

 

[stanleyntl]

Rudy have you pressed "TV" button on SKY handset? - this reverts output to composite, ignoring RGB setting - press SKY button to correct.

 

[Peabo]

Repeat after me Peabo, component component component! Mantra for plasma owners. The difference between s-video and RGB can be tricky at times, it depends how the signal is handled if there is any difference, and indeed at times if s-video is better. Think about your own plasma, a soft scart, but excellent s-video handling. It's not unique either. Think of s-video as slightly cut down component.

Oh, hehe, I can't believe I made that mistake, it must have been a rough morning. I meant component
I should know that since yesterday I hooked all my scarts (including my sky box) up via my new DVD recorder to the component port on the plasma. Now everything is going through that port (except the dreamcast and computer that go through VGA).

Looks much better than through the old scart board.

 

[rudy]

does'nt work. its on av4 composite though.

 

[kingsize]

Hitachi have said not their problem and said you should have bought another brand if i wanted HDMI to work correctly .QUOTE]

I doubt very much that someone at Hitachi said this to you.

In fact I would suggest that this is not truthful at all.

Try setting your Hitachi up properly before going off on an ill informed rant....

 

[Deleted member 51156]

Yip im sorry dude but your talking complete twaddle 1280x1024 @ 60hz is not supported thru hdmi ,i have my pc working at 1024x768 perfectly thru the dvi and can switch to hdtv resolutions thru my graphics card.

Me thinks you need to read the manual correctly

 

[barong]

Neilos Er Page 53 Recommended Signal list !!!

Dont try to shoot people down till u have the facts, I am after advice not people giving totally unrelevant and non helpful views.

This screen claims to be able to be 1080i which at the moment it is not.

 

[barong]

As an update im now running 1920 which someone said is not right and it will only do 1024 still flickers when windows displayed but media center seems to look good.

 

[wonderloaf]

I can vouch for getting the settings right....came home from work the other night and noticed that we were getting loads of solarisation, especially on flesh tones. Started having a panic attack, thinking the panel was going belly up, so checked the settings. Somebody (won't say who) had been in there and played around, the sharpness was up to nearly max. After changing the settings back to those recommended by the forum members, things are now back to normal. And the 'other person' who changed them is saying how much the picture has improved!