AndyFov
Prominent Member
Having recently downgraded from a 400 to a 350 (the baby was worth it though) I'm a bit confused re the setup of the 350.
Having had Gordon make a fine job with the 400 previously, I slyly picked up a few pointers, and felt prepared to dive in and have a go setting up this one myself. I figured that if push came to shove, Gordon would only be 500 miles or so away. Anyway, all went surprisingly well, though I was lucky in that the bracket for the 400 could be used with the 350, and it was still bolted exactly where I needed it. Anyway, I've only encountered one problem...
The manual says I need to setup and save defection settings for each input. I had initially done one which I was happy with, and while there was a slight difference between the dvd & digibox input, it wasn't enough to bother me.
I recently bought a Gamecube and have connected that to the projector directly by RGB Scart. The image was way too small, so I entered the deflection menu, and increased the image size so it filled the screen in proportion. This has affected the image of the ither inputs too though.
While typing this, I think the penny may have dropped. Should I have saved the new deflection settings to a vacant memory bank?
There's just one other slight niggle, in scenes where the image is predominantly bright, scenes with a lot of sky in them for instance, the outer eight inch perimeter of my screen is brighter and less red than the inner square. I assume the previous owner of this projector was using a woefully small proportion of the available raster, and duller redder inner but has had more wear. As this projector has only done 1100 hours, can I expect this problem to even out over time? It's not a *real* cause of distress, but obviously I'd like things a little more uniform across the screen if possible.
I was thinking of getting my old BBC B from the attic, and writing a little program that'd really work the areas of the screen that have had little use previously. The brighter edges are apparent on all three guns. It'd not take much effort. Would it be a bad idea?
Any help appeciated...
TIA
Andy
Having had Gordon make a fine job with the 400 previously, I slyly picked up a few pointers, and felt prepared to dive in and have a go setting up this one myself. I figured that if push came to shove, Gordon would only be 500 miles or so away. Anyway, all went surprisingly well, though I was lucky in that the bracket for the 400 could be used with the 350, and it was still bolted exactly where I needed it. Anyway, I've only encountered one problem...
The manual says I need to setup and save defection settings for each input. I had initially done one which I was happy with, and while there was a slight difference between the dvd & digibox input, it wasn't enough to bother me.
I recently bought a Gamecube and have connected that to the projector directly by RGB Scart. The image was way too small, so I entered the deflection menu, and increased the image size so it filled the screen in proportion. This has affected the image of the ither inputs too though.
While typing this, I think the penny may have dropped. Should I have saved the new deflection settings to a vacant memory bank?
There's just one other slight niggle, in scenes where the image is predominantly bright, scenes with a lot of sky in them for instance, the outer eight inch perimeter of my screen is brighter and less red than the inner square. I assume the previous owner of this projector was using a woefully small proportion of the available raster, and duller redder inner but has had more wear. As this projector has only done 1100 hours, can I expect this problem to even out over time? It's not a *real* cause of distress, but obviously I'd like things a little more uniform across the screen if possible.
I was thinking of getting my old BBC B from the attic, and writing a little program that'd really work the areas of the screen that have had little use previously. The brighter edges are apparent on all three guns. It'd not take much effort. Would it be a bad idea?
Any help appeciated...
TIA
Andy