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KevK

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  1. Hi Michelle - I had difficulty connecting my 26" Magnavox to a pc using a DVI connector at first, with a Radeon graphics card, and then a GeForce FX 5200. The Radeon card would not display a DVI signal at all and I could not get the Nvidia button to display with the FX 5200 to add the higher timing settings until I bought a new fancy Nvidia card (GeForce 7600GS). (I could see the button for advanced timings when using the RGB output though.) Even with all the buttons showing I still found it a chore to get the advanced timings to be accepted. There seemed to be an art to it. You had to have it set in the prior menu to be running at the high 1366 x 768 res or close to it and then when you added the advanced timings, magic happened and the Magnavox turned into a crystal sharp computer display with beautiful text and properly proportioned photos and video. You should be able to do this in RGB but I never got that far and am very please with the DVI mode. My RGB experience was fairly fuzzy. I suggest you get an expensive Nvidia graphics card if you wish to go the DVI route or do some superstitious behaviours when entering the advanced timings. (My res is actually 1368x768) My son bought the same TV and could not get the 1:1 pixel display working with his fancy laptop's rgb output. If you wish a screen print of the settings let me know. The Magnavox panels are good buying and Kmart tell me they have few returns compared with the Pyrod for example. I bought the GeForce 7600GS card for the ability to run 2600 x 1600 res to suit a Dell 30" panel if I could aford one. They were about $3000 a few months back and are selling for the next few days for $1999 delivered, but even at that you know they will be a lot cheaper in 6 months time when there is some competition from other manufacturers plus you can not have a big collection of LCD panels you bought on impulse. Kev
  2. Same story at Joondalup W>A. where I bought one for $999 although it was in the catalogue for the higher price. I explained the disparity to the sales people but they said $999 was the price. Now I see Big W have the same size panel in an Akio brand with a contrast of 1600 which must yield better blacks. The prices are sure spiraling down at a great rate.
  3. Kmart may have a new improved Pyrod 37" PW3711 high res (1920 x 1080) LCD panel. On the shelf it was listed at a non sale price of $1899 and the young sales casual said it was new stock better than the old ones that had had a few problems. He said it could have been bought for $1614 a couple of days ago when they had their 15% off
  4. They both work for me using a VGA input into a 1366 x 768 Magnavox. Another user says the second lot of settings works for him with a 1:1 pixel mapping with a DVI input on the same display. The settings should not depend on what brand of panel you use as that is not how it works with standard control panel resolution settings. I can not see the "advanced timing" button in the Nvidia settings when using the DVI input though. It only allows you to "add" a resolution. I am using a Nvidia GForce FX5200 video card, he was using a GeForce TI 4200 and I do not see why it would be different. I wonder if it gets better if you buy more recent video cards? A Radeon card would not work at all with the DVI input on my display. I can not see why manufacturers are not solving this problem as the big LCD displays make terrific display monitors and I have ditched my 17" panels. KevK
  5. One query - I have connected the LG via the DVI connection - which I am assuming is better quality than Component, but I note that the manual says the DVI resolution is 1024x768 which is less than the full res of 1366x768. How does that work out? DVI would be better and it probably just scales the video to the native resolution of 1366 x 768. The 1024 x 768 would be for a computer connection.
  6. Thanks jakieblak. VLC is good. I use it all the time, but even the 5:4 setting does not fill the screen in DVI mode when playing back material recorded on the PC, but the video is correct when using the Dvico software from the PC's tuner card. I would like to use DVRview which goes with the Webscheduler program, but I can not get it to go past its initial screen. The aspect ratio of video is not really a problem as these LCD TVs just scale the screen to its native resolution (1366 x 768) it is more trying to use the LCD as a monitor when viewing photos and web pages using DVI that it is a pain.
  7. If your Nvidia control panel allows you to input "advanced timer settings" you could use the settings I gave as examples a few days back, for front porch etc. I was trying to solve this same universal problem of gaining native resolution with member input but came to the conclusion it must be too hard for the average Joe. I gave up, and am using the resolution suggested in my users manual for DVI of 1024 x 768, The display is crisp and does not overfill the screen, but my aspect ratio is wrong and images are fat. I rang the Magnavox (Mistral) help line but they were of little help as I guess they think they sold me a TV rather than a computer monitor. Maybe I need some software that corrects the aspect ratio before it gets to the display? Or use an image viewer and browser that enables you to correct the aspect ratio. Here is copy of my old post: Here are a couple of advanced timer settings I have tried: Horizontal: Front porch 48 Sync width 112 Back porch 248 sync rate 47.98 Polarity + Front end active 1368 Vertical: Front porch 1 sync width 3 Back porch 30 refresh rate 59.83 Sync polarity - Back end active 768 And another: Horizontal FP 112 Sync 40 BP 216 scan rate 47.83 Pol + Front end 1366 Vertical FP 5 Sync 5 BP 20 Refresh rate 59.942 sync + Active front end 768 I am usng a Magnavox LCD, but this is such a common panel resolution that the settings must be of interest to heaps of people wishing to view computer text on their displays. On my Magnavox LCD I can only input VGA custom resolutions but others report they can do it in DVI, Also when I use DVI the Aspect ratio of photos and videos is squashed. And screens are usually pan and scan. So I am seeking a better set up in VGA
  8. You would think DVI would be better without all the D/A conversions. An interesting A/B comparison of VGA verses DVI was when I used two 17" LCD monitors, side by side for Photoshop and I do not think I could pick the difference between which one was running off the video cards VGA output and which one was off the DVI. That is why I feel I can get better video card custom timing settings as when I view the text I am writing now, with a VGA input into my Magnavox 1366 x 768 LCD it is legible but lacks the crispness I see when using the same panels DVI input, and then I have the flaws of the wrong aspect ratio and a sliding whole of screen view.
  9. Here are a couple I have tried: Horizontal: Front porch 48 Sync width 112 Back porch 248 sync rate 47.98 Polarity + Front end active 1368 Vertical: Front porch 1 sync width 3 Back porch 30 refresh rate 59.83 Sync polarity - Back end active 768 And another: Horizontal FP 112 Sync 40 BP 216 scan rate 47.83 Pol + Front end 1366 Vertical FP 5 Sync 5 BP 20 Refresh rate 59.942 sync + Active front end 768 I am usng a Magnavox LCD, but this is such a common panel resolution that the settings must be of interest to heaps of people wishing to view computer text on their displays. On my Magnavox LCD I can only input VGA custom resolutions but others report they can do it in DVI, Also when I use DVI the Aspect ratio of photos and videos is squashed. And screens are usually pan and scan. So I am seeking a better set up in VGA
  10. Did it all again as you directed DA and no joy. Also updated computer BIOS as suggested by some Radeon troubleshooting page. Life always seems too short for the time consumption that computers cause or is it "A pox on Magnavox for making such a crap DVI input!"
  11. Thanks for the suggestion DA. Am running Radeon driver Vers 8.231 of 21.02.2006. Maybe I installed it without removing the old driver? Think I just ran it rather than saved it. The panel did work straight off with very old Nvidia drivers on the Living room TV computer. I then downloaded the Nvidia update in the fruitless search for 1366x768 res. I could swap the graphics cards from computer to computer, but I think I bought the Nvidia to run with the Dvico tuner software to drop less video frames and that Dvico software is a real hassle as it is. The Catalyst software seemed overly complicated and just using Contol Panel, Display, Settings enabled the two computer screens to be run at different resolutions at the same time. So to do it properly I have to first download a uninstall application Then down load and install the latest driver again. I am currently of little faith and energy.
  12. An update to the above: The DVI input works, no sweat, on the Nvidia Gaphics card. I down loaded the latest Nvidia drivers and tried to make a custom res of 1366x768 and it said it was invalid, as was one for 852x480. The provided resolutions of 1360 an 1368 suggests it only works in 8 pixel increments as indicated by others. I now wonder how to get the Radeon card to detect the Magnavox as effiecently as a Nvidia and how do you get the native res without the Powerstrip hootananny. Text looked good from the DVi input whereas I am struggling to pick the difference on a pair of LCD panels I use in unison, one on a VGA input the other on a DVI from the Radeon card The DVI television I saw from a computer digital tuner was pretty ordinary, but that is the nature of most of it by the providers who do not seem to use HD cameras much and get by with handicams. It does seem to be folly to spend lots of money on HD gear in the home
  13. DVI input from a PC still eludes me. I don't know how you did it "Grim" I even swapped it for another panel as I found a Kmart that had more delivered. The new one behaves the same. I can set up the DVI to be working on a 17" LCD monitor and then shut everything down. Change the DVI cable to the Magnavox without anything else connected. Turn on the computer and get no further than the windows boot screen on the Magnavox. It must be something to do with the Radeon 9200 graphics card in my computer or your Magnavox has extra magic properties mine don't have. I checked my Living room PC and it has a Nvidia Gforce FX5200 card in it. If I install up to date Forceware Vers 84.21 drivers will that provide the 1366x768 res and do they also have 852x480 res for SD plasma panels so I would not have to use powerstrip that often chucks a wobbly anyway and needs you to key in all the numbers again. Even with the latest Catalyst drivers for the Radeon there are no drivers for that res. The new panel seems the same as the old one. Similar picture quality. No noticeable dead pixels and even the same label glued with camel snot on the front speaker that should take half an hour to scrape off
  14. Thanks for your help guys and good to see you exercising your addiction so early in the morning. Yep I have tried everything and get only the Windows boot screen before windows starts and the blue screen of nothingness appears. So you are confirming that if it will not boot and display off the DVI input it is faulty and the Mistral Technician is making things up about the native input res and the different types of DVI inputs. Powerstrip is a real pain and it may be worthwhile to buy some Nvidia cards. Can they be low key ones.
  15. The DVI input does not seem to work on my 26" Magnavox. Have others found it so or was it simply a plug and go procedure. I would like some feedback I did ring Mistral for advice and was told that if I swapped the panel for another one it would probably behave the same as the DVI input was more an input to be fed by a devise giving the native resolution or it was a DVI connecter incompatible with my computers Radeon card. Other panels I have with DVI inputs work fine with my PC. I think it is broken. The panel seems good value. Photos from a computer are squashed at the recommended PC resoulution of 1024x768 and in normal proportions at 1368x768, but text is not good at the latter resolution. Feeding it from an HD stb through the RGB input gave a pleasing picture but small black bands down each side suggested you would probably need access to the service menu codes to have a perfect picture. These funny resolutions such as 1366x768 are a pain for computer use. A bit like the 852x480 reolution on my SD Plasma which I run from a computer with Powerstrip at 960x540 to fit the picture on the screen and get the text to look better from the PC.
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