JVC HV-32P37 CRT TV question, hi def stuff..

[will2003]

Hopefully someone can clear this up for me...

I'm using the above TV, which apparently supports 1080 Hi Def via component cable. Now, seeing as there are only 4 Xbox games that support true 1080, and they're all pretty duff titles in my opinion, has anyone used an Xbox via Hi Def on this exact same UK spec JVC? And if so, can it handle the lower Hi Def resoultions?

I guess what I want to know, before I go out and buy the component cable, is wether or not the 1080 quoted by JVC in the specs is the highest it can accept, or the *only* signal it accepts.

And, any reccomedations on the good cable to get? Go with M$, or are there any better 3rd party products?

On the subject of M$, I saw a very funny single frame cartoon in the paper the day it was announced that Bill Gates had donated $750m to disease prevention research... it basically said that he needed to keep all these sick children alive so they can grow up healthily and start buying his operating systems. Most amusing

[geekwiglasses]

i'd imagine that if it supports 1080i(which is rare for a crt ) it should support 480/525/720p

[nscol]

i'd imagine that if it supports 1080i(which is rare for a crt ) it should support 480/525/720p

I have the 36HV38PSJE jvc tv and as the original poster said it will accept 1080I/576P-I/480P-I but not 720P for some unknown reason. I don't have a modded xbox so haven't tried it with 1080I.

[t-dog]

hello,
appearently, the tv scales the 1080i signal down to 525p.
I had the 36p38 too. It's an amazing clear picture you get( through component), never seen anything like it on a tv.
And even though it (supposedly) down scales the 1080i signal, i found it to be of better image quality than my pal progressive scan dvd player,which also runs at 525p.
So it's recommended that you take advantage of it.
I hooked the pc up to the tv via component cable, and, with powerstrip forcing 1920*1080i as output, saw movies via pc to my tv. It looked even better than dvd! Image quality were comparable to when you see movies in cinema.
Oops, bit of rambling there. Anyway, great tv!

[fragmast3r]

jesus that telly is a bargain, only ?499 at empiredirect

[daddyorchips]

hello,
appearently, the tv scales the 1080i signal down to 525p.
I had the 36p38 too. It's an amazing clear picture you get( through component), never seen anything like it on a tv.
And even though it (supposedly) down scales the 1080i signal, i found it to be of better image quality than my pal progressive scan dvd player,which also runs at 525p.
So it's recommended that you take advantage of it.
I hooked the pc up to the tv via component cable, and, with powerstrip forcing 1920*1080i as output, saw movies via pc to my tv. It looked even better than dvd! Image quality were comparable to when you see movies in cinema.
Oops, bit of rambling there. Anyway, great tv!

I can second this!

I've go the HV-32P37 tv, and the picture is jaw dropping. It supports 480P/580P/1080i. Component running in 480P on the xbox looks superb - pinpoint sharpness - and I've outputted my pc to it as well running in 1080i, and the picture looks great. Not as "stable" a picture at that res, but the detail is incredible, and Half Life 2 blows me away at such a high, widescreen enabled res

Highly recommended! Even the standard s-video/rgb looks great.

[will2003]

I can second this!

I've go the HV-32P37 tv, and the picture is jaw dropping. It supports 480P/580P/1080i. Component running in 480P on the xbox looks superb - pinpoint sharpness - and I've outputted my pc to it as well running in 1080i, and the picture looks great. Not as "stable" a picture at that res, but the detail is incredible, and Half Life 2 blows me away at such a high, widescreen enabled res

Highly recommended! Even the standard s-video/rgb looks great.

Brilliant!

So excuse my ignorance on all this, but that means that I can play pretty much all Xbox games that support Hi Def on this exact TV? Not just the 4 or so titles that support 1080i?

Thanks to all who replied!

Will.

[nscol]

I would imagine that you can play 480P and 1080I but not 720P games. Bearing in mind that I don't have a modded xbox though to try it.

[anephric]

I didn't think any CRT tvs supported 720p? It's a revelation to me that some do 1080i...

I'd be wary of Pal Progressive on a CRT... you're only getting 50hz refresh and it can be a shimmery hell.

[t-dog]

yeah, on this 36" tv, it could strain your eyes after a while... though in 60hz (ntsc) mode it feels alot better actually.

[Baseley09]

Sorry to bump such an old thread......

But is there any way round the tv forcing 60hz rgb though scart into composite.....all my rgb scart devices are 60hz and all are getting bunked into composite....i read this is a problem on this set at AVF, but is there a solution....bar spending £60 on an rgb to component box

[Salsa Party Animal]

RGB scart signal need to go through RGB Scart socket not composite which is usually used for video input of VHS.

[Baseley09]

No ****, no really, this tv turns 60hz rgb into composite.

I dont think theres a solution that doesnt involve unobtainable wiring, such sillyness.

[charlaph]

I can't help directly as I have the HD28P37 and it does RGB no probs - but in the EXT setup make sure dubbing is off and also try turning S-Video off. Not sure if this'll help, but I know dubbing definitely knocks RGB functionality off on channel E2.

[fallenangle]

Unfortunately it is a well known 'problem' that this TV defaults to composite with 60Hz sources when using (RGB) SCART connections. I have found it will not support any console/games PAL60 options at all either. There are many threads on avforums.com about this and nobody has found a way round it. S-Video works fine but it's not much better to be quite honest.

The lack of PAL60 support through RGB SCART is particularly annoying for PAL DC owners. PAL GC (late model) owners which don't have component output will, obviously, also find problems with games that only run at 60Hz. However in the latter case it seems a PAL GC outputs a true NTSC signal rather than PAL60 so it will work but the result will only be composite.

On the DC you can use a DC-X boot disc to 'trick' the TV into NTSC mode through RGB SCART meaning you can still play PAL games at 60Hz and NTSC games on PAL DCs. But, although the quality is really excellent (best composite PQ I've seen), I'm fairly sure it's not running in true RGB.

I've not had my GC long enough to test it with the Freeloader to see what happens when using that.

It's really a TV best suited to using the component connections for everything even though the PQ at 50Hz with PAL games through RGB SCART is actually very good and not at all flickery.