50" LCD HDMI 1080p Sony Bravia

[Hacka]

Hey guys.. i just bought the 50" 1080p hdmi rear projection tv from abc warehouse.
It was listed as $1750 and i got it for $999

Was this a good purchase?
http://www.sonystyle.com/webap...Id=8198552921665117947


1) Im using it my monitor for gaming right now but i cant get 1920x1080 to show up properly. I cant see the bottom start menu or the top of the screen. I have to lower it to like 768 in order to see the start menu BUT then its too small and the wallpaper doesnt cover the edges. Im really confused... any help?

2) I am trying to play the 26gig version of 300 (Blu-Ray) from my hard drive onto my tv and its laggy. You can see my specs in my siggy... i dont know what it plays it laggy. It plays fine on my 28" 1080p monitor but once i put it on my tv its like 3-7 fps.

3) I want to hook up my pc audio to the 50" tv's speakers... do i run a "basic audio jack to audio / video" ?


thanks !!

 

[Wuzup101]

I'd say you got a very good deal. That's a good price on a very nice RPTV (I've always liked sony's RP sets).

1) Are you sure you are actually sending it 1080p and not 1920x1200? Normal desktop wide screens are 16:10 and not 16:9 like your TV. There's a very good possibility that if you are not forcing the resolution switch, you are getting the latter resolution. I'm also assuming that you are using a DVI>HDMI adapter?

2) See 1. The only thing I can think of is that the TV is having problems dealing with a non standard resolution. If it plays fine on your 24" computer monitor (which is likely 1920x1200 like mine), than it's not an issue of computer power. For all practical reasons, there is no difference between a 1080p 24" display vs a 50" display as far as the computer is concerned. However, if you are sending the TV a 1920x1200 signal it may be having problems down scaling it.

3) This should be fairly simple as long as your TV has an audio in that can be used with an HDMI port. The specs at the sony site indicate that there is a L/R audio input paired to one of the HDMI ports on the back of the TV. All you would need to do is run a miniplug from your computer to the set with the addition of a miniplug to 2 RCA adapter. A 3.5mm miniplug is going to carry the same stereo signal as the Red+White RCA jacks would.

You can use an adapter like this http://www.monoprice.com/produ...id=2120&seq=1&format=2
Additionally, you could use one that had a female miniplug to 2 male RCA (what I was originally thinking of). I couldn't find that variety at monoprice, but I own both styles, and it's simply a matter of what you can find really (I can't remember where I got mine).

 

[Hacka]

1) 1920x1200 wouldnt show a picture so i had to lower it to 1920x1080. when i enable my tv to show the desktop and then go to properties... the max res is then 1920x1080. all i do is open the movie and no matter what size it is.. it still skips. with 1920x1080... i cant see my taaskbar. i even tried to zoom out but that doesnt work. the only way to see my start menu is to make it some weird resolution like 14xxx x 863 or something lol. then i have a black border and wasted space.

2) see above

3) i figured it would be that easy thanks

 

[rip]

see how it likes 1680X1050

 

[Hacka]

but if its 1080p.. why wouldnt it run 1080? doesnt make sense.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

You need to adjust for overscan (Resize Desktop) in the nvidia control panel.

What are you using to playback the 300 video? PowerDVD Ultra?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Yeah, use the custom resolutions area in nVidia's control panel and set up a custom resolution. Check the box for "treat as HDTV," and you'll get access to the overscan adjustments, where you can fiddle around with the numbers until the whole desktop is showing on the visible area of the screen.

For audio, use this. Plug the 3.5mm jack into the green port on your sound card/audio out from your motherboard, and the red and white RCA plugs into the corresponding red/white RCA sockets on your TV. You may have to scroll through some menu options to figure out how to get the TV to accept video over HDMI and audio over RCA simultaneously. If it can't, you'll need to buy a receiver, which starts you down a path of speakers and a subwoofer and things start to get very expensive (damn fun though).

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Another option for audio might be to connect your onboard audio to your nvidia card. Your nvidia card should have come with with a small cable with white/red wires that have small connectors on each end. It's used to pass audio from the motherboard through the nvidia card and out the DVI port when a DVI-->HDMI cable is used.

 

[Hacka]

i just tried to hook up some cheapy pc/home audio speakers that were 5.1 but i could only find one connection for either the front or back on the back of the tv.

where would i put the front, back and center? i think there is only 2 spots on the tv for audio... red/white

im confused.

maybe i will just buy a home theater system. i will check the problem with my res in the nvidia control panel later because im watching the pistons play right now

 

[heyheybooboo]

2) I am trying to play the 26gig version of 300 (Blu-Ray) from my hard drive onto my tv and its laggy. You can see my specs in my siggy... i dont know what it plays it laggy. It plays fine on my 28" 1080p monitor but once i put it on my tv its like 3-7 fps.

Delete any garbage and defrag your hard drive and page file.

1) Im using it my monitor for gaming right now but i cant get 1920x1080 to show up properly. I cant see the bottom start menu or the top of the screen. I have to lower it to like 768 in order to see the start menu BUT then its too small and the wallpaper doesnt cover the edges. Im really confused... any help?

What video connection are you using? Switch inputs or try DVI if available to eliminate overscan problems. You should have 1920x1080. Is there a menu setting to switch 4:3 / 16:9 you may have overlooked ??

3) I want to hook up my pc audio to the 50" tv's speakers... do i run a "basic audio jack to audio / video" ?

Run a "Y" cable from your PC line-out. Or ... with all the money you saved buy a $200 SS receiver and run your sound to it

 

[Hacka]

ok.. i got the screensize to be adjusted through the nvidia panel.

but im still having problems getting sound from my pc to my tv. I got a dvi>hdmi from my pc to monitor and i have another from my pc to my 50" tv. I thought hdmi carried audio also.. but maybe my pc doesnt allow it. So i bought a splitter... its a Y connector and i have a cable thats the regular headphone jack size.. it splits to a red & white cable... i cannot get ANY sound from my pc to my tv.

If this doesnt work.. is there a nice surround sound setup that i can use on my tv AND pc? any links?

 

[Throckmorton]

Try to set your TV to not overscan, otherwise it's taking a smaller image and scaling it up to 1920x1080

 

[Wuzup101]

HDMI carries sound, but DVI does not. If you are using DVI>HDMI realize that all you are sending is digital video... not sound. You need to run a separate audio cable (3.5mm mini stereo from your computer to 2 RCA to the TV most likely) to get audio.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Hey Hacka.

So by now you have the screen size adjusted to fit on the TV.

Have you solved the issues with the video playing back normally yet?

For the sound...

If you're going to use the TV's speakers, the best you're going to get is stereo sound.
If you want 5.1, you're going to have to get a set of speakers for either the computer your a HT type system.

Since you're only hooking up to a system with 2 speakers, that means that if you're hooking up via analog (like you're attempting with your Y-connector), you're only going to connect to a single 3.5mm output on your computer (The Front Left / Front Right output... usually green if it's color coded).

For a 5.1 computer speaker set, you'd need to use all three 3.5mm connections
FR/FL (green)
SR/FL (black)
Center/Sub (Orange/Yellow)

With the TV's speakers you're using, you're only going to get 2 channels of audio, so you don't use the black or orange/yellow outputs on your computer.

If you had a device like a DVD player or something with HDMI output that included audio as well, that would be an alternative way of sending an audio signal, but you'd still only be able to play back 2 channels of it. (Even though HDMI can pass multichannel audio to a capable system)



So....

You need to connect your y-adapter that you got to the FR/FL output of your soundcard and run it to the audio input on your TV. In addition to setting up the computer to output sound, you have to also make sure that the TV is "looking" at the correct audio input when it's playing back video from HDMI. There might be particular inputs that are assigned or you might be able to select it in the TV menu.