getting full resolution from Pioneer BDP120 blu-ray to Panasonic television via HDMI

Arthur Marsh

2010-08-25 01:41:22 UTC

Post by Arthur Marsh
Hi, I have a Pioneer BDP120 blu-ray player with HDMI output connected to
a friend's Panasonic television (model unknown) that identifies itself
when plugged into a pc as: EDID vendor "MEI", prod id 49451 and capable
of supporting 1920 * 1080 resolution.
I've tried some but not all combinations of order of turning the
television and blu-ray player on and connecting the HDMI cable between
them and starting to play a blu-ray disk from Japan (
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=VWBS-1078 ) that is
described as "Region Free" and 1080i resolution, but the television
keeps downgrading the resolution to 720i or 480i.
I can try another blu-ray disk some time but would be interested in
knowing of any tricks to get full resolution working between the blu-ray
player and television via HDMI.

The solution was easy - I bought a HDMI 1.3b cable ($25 from Jaycar),
switched off the television and blu-ray player, plugged the HDMI cable
in to both, switched on the television then half a minute or so later
switched on the blu-ray player, then on the set-up menus, changed output
from analogue and HDMI out to HDMI out, and all worked out fine.

It appears that the HDMI output is limited to 480p when analogue output
is enabled.

Arthur.