virgesmith
Standard Member
Hi
Seen a lot of posts here with people experiencing their plasma switching off and getting various numbers of flashes of the standby light or worse...
It happened occasionally on my 2.5yo 435XDE before I downloaded the 2.10 PS3 firmware but seems far more common now that I have (could be a coincidence I guess). It happens to me when i switch off the PS3 and when I play a DVD (blue-ray was fine) and once when I enabled sound through HDMI.
I normally get either 7 or 13 standby flashes and the TV seems to be flickering (cycling though different resolutions/refresh rates?) just before it goes off.
Posts on here seem to suggest that you have about 3 weeks between having this problem and the plasma (or just the HDMI input) failing. So I rang Pioneer custumer services today...
Basically the guy said not to worry, it was because the PS3 (being newer than 5 gen pio) was sending HDMI signals that the plasma didnt understand to the screen, and being unable to work out what was going on the plasma puts itself into some kind of protection mode.
Thing is:
1) I thought the PS3 autodetected what the TV was capable of, so is it sending signals the TV doesnt support? and why are these signals so dangerous to the TV it has to switch itself off? I just picked the resoluations the PS3 said the TV was capable of (720p and 1080i).
2) given what I've read here I'm inclined to think the customer services guy was a bit optimistic telling me not to worry.
I know a 436 owner who's having similar problems with an xbox, and someone else who has a PS3 and a non-Pioneer plasma, and read all the posts here esp. about sky HD so its not obvious what the culprit is? HDMI itself?
Should I use component instead or is there a HDMI solution (other than what I've been doing - turning the TV off before I switch the PS3 off)?
Many thanks
Virgesmith
Seen a lot of posts here with people experiencing their plasma switching off and getting various numbers of flashes of the standby light or worse...
It happened occasionally on my 2.5yo 435XDE before I downloaded the 2.10 PS3 firmware but seems far more common now that I have (could be a coincidence I guess). It happens to me when i switch off the PS3 and when I play a DVD (blue-ray was fine) and once when I enabled sound through HDMI.
I normally get either 7 or 13 standby flashes and the TV seems to be flickering (cycling though different resolutions/refresh rates?) just before it goes off.
Posts on here seem to suggest that you have about 3 weeks between having this problem and the plasma (or just the HDMI input) failing. So I rang Pioneer custumer services today...
Basically the guy said not to worry, it was because the PS3 (being newer than 5 gen pio) was sending HDMI signals that the plasma didnt understand to the screen, and being unable to work out what was going on the plasma puts itself into some kind of protection mode.
Thing is:
1) I thought the PS3 autodetected what the TV was capable of, so is it sending signals the TV doesnt support? and why are these signals so dangerous to the TV it has to switch itself off? I just picked the resoluations the PS3 said the TV was capable of (720p and 1080i).
2) given what I've read here I'm inclined to think the customer services guy was a bit optimistic telling me not to worry.
I know a 436 owner who's having similar problems with an xbox, and someone else who has a PS3 and a non-Pioneer plasma, and read all the posts here esp. about sky HD so its not obvious what the culprit is? HDMI itself?
Should I use component instead or is there a HDMI solution (other than what I've been doing - turning the TV off before I switch the PS3 off)?
Many thanks
Virgesmith