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Brian Hampton · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 1173

Hi,

I've had a PS3 since Nov 06.

Anyway... setting the Blu Ray playback to YPbPr always confused my hdfury or my G70... I don't know which.. but I would get mostly green like some part of the chain was mixed up between RGB and component.

Today... I set the Blu Ray play back to force YPbPr and it just worked. Shocked

Maybe this is old news to everyone .... I have no idea how this got "fixed" maybe via a FW update at some point.

However,... By forcing YPbPr of the Blu Ray playback with super white on I get Blacker than Black which is useful for setup.

And,... I can leave RGB set to full so I get correct colors from other things too (video games... and movies on the hard drive and so on.)

Also today I discovered there is a HFCR version I can run on my Macbook which was fantastic too because HFCR is the ONLY reason I held on to an old P200 Laptop PC and I never have to boot that turkey again.

-Brian

Blorton · Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 105 Location: Hotlanta, GA

Awesome! thanks for posting this. I just discovered PS3 Media Server yesterday and the 1.09 beta is excellent. What is HFCR, btw?

Off to go try YPbPr on mine. Are you running the power supply on your hdfury?

Thanks,
Dan

Brian Hampton · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 1173

I have a power supply for the Hdfury but the results are the same for me with and without it... So... I removed it.

HFCR is a calibration software but my happy-ness about the mac version may have been pre-mature... The mac version doesn't work the way the windows one does and may not be useable for me.

=Brian

Blorton · Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 105 Location: Hotlanta, GA

Well, no joy on YPbPr for me. I get a deep magenta tint. Maybe it's just more than the 1272 can handle. Mr. Green

I get occasional resets if I don't use the hdfury's power supply, and that's with just a six foot cable.

ralpharch · Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 211 Location: Derwood

I've never had a problem with PS3 component - fed via Moome Ext-HD box to a Marquee 81110+ @ 1080i

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

I haven't updated the firmware on my PS3 in ages. Maybe I should see what's new.

Didn't realize there was a media server for the PS3, but I don't think I need one in my setup. I have a LaCie NAS with a built-in media server and the PS3 pulls files from there.

Blorton · Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 105 Location: Hotlanta, GA

This one uses a java based engine and will run on windows as well as linux - Macs too! Smile

It's more than just a media server - it does on the fly transcoding.

http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

jantje112 · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 328

Brian Hampton · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 1173

I am running it as RGBVH though.... the PS3 seems to be sending YPbPr to the HDFury (not the newer Fury2) and the Fury seems to convert it to RGBVH.

Or... I don't know... it never worked before.... My clamp is set to H/C for reference.

I really don't know why it works now.... All I know is if you force RGB output you don't get BTB from the PS3 (at least I didn't) and you have to run "limited" for movies and "full" for everything else but if you can force YPbPr then it helps with all that because you can send out RGB "Full" for everything else.