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Getting the Most out of your PS3 |
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Written by Donny
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Try these settings to get the best picture on your PS3 for blu-ray movies.
An article over at Cnet explains what you can do to get the best picture on your PS3 for Blu-Ray movies on your spanking new HDTV. Anything below that is a crime against nature and you should be punished for it.
The settings are as follows:
BD/DVD menu:
Cinema Conversion: Automatic
This setting affects how the player deals with film- and video-based
standard-def material originating on DVD and Blu-ray. Automatic works
well to differentiate between the two.
Upscale: Normal
This setting fills the screen properly when dealing with standard-def content converted to high-def by the PS3.
BD/DVD Video Output Format (HDMI): Automatic
This setting affects the color space output via the PS3. RGB is best
for video games, which use the same color spce as computers, while Y
Pb/Cb Pr/Cr is best for video, including DVD and Blu-ray discs. Auto
usually works to detect the source properly, so we recommend most
people stick with this setting. If you experience discoloration or
other issues, try another setting.
BD 1080p 24Hz output (HDMI): Off
Most Blu-ray discs are encoded at 1080p/24 natively, which means they
have 1,920x1,080 pixels per frame delivered at 24 frames per second,
the native film rate. Many HDTVs cannot accept 1080p/24, however, and
many more can but don't get any benefit from this setting, and can look
choppy or otherwise incorrect. Unless your TV is designed to accept
1080p/24 signals--this includes most LCD models with 120Hz processing,
as well as select plasmas with different refresh rates--you should
leave this setting turned off. (Khurshid, for your 800U, we recommend
choosing Off and ignoring Panasonic's 48Hz mode, which introduces unwelcome flicker). We also recommend avoiding Auto, because it can sometimes mistakenly output an incorrect format.
Display Settings menu:
Video Output Settings: [check all that apply]
This setting controls the resolution(s) output by the PS3. You should
select all of the resolutions with which your TV is compatible. If you
have a TV that can accept 1080p signals, you should select all of the
check boxes. On HDTVs that cannot accept 1080p, you should check off
every resolution except 1080p. The only exception is if you know your
TV looks much better with 720p sources than 1080i. If that's the case,
we recommend you leave 1080i unchecked as well.
Cross Color Reduction Filter: Off
This setting only applies to S-Video and composite-video output, not HDMI.
RGB Full Range (HDMI): Limited
This setting controls the range of information output via HDMI.
Contrary to what you might think, this setting is best left on Limited
for video-based material like Blu-ray and DVD for the majority of HDMI
televisions. Some newer HDTVs can receive a slight benefit from Full if
calibrated properly, but in general Limited is the best choice, and we
use it in the lab to ensure compatibility of the reference player with
all displays.
Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr Super-White (HDMI): On
This setting controls whether the PS3 will pass blacker-than-black and
whiter-than-white parts of the video signal. It's really only useful
during calibration, which is why we leave it turned on. Many discs
don't contain material in above white or below black.
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