Major issue with my 2707WFP and a PS3...

Question

Okay, so I got a new 2707WFP yesterday, and when hooked up to a PlayStation 3, the monitor produces an extremely, *extremely* washed-out image, and it's driving me insane. Imagine the brightness setting on your TV being set 20 notches too high, and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. I tried adjusting the brightness and contrast settings, but even with the brightness at 0, the washed-out image is still there; the blacks aren't even black, they look more like grey than anything, really. Here's a crude Photoshop image of exactly what I'm seeing when watching a Blu-Ray movie in 1080p: http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/3650/2707imageqp8.jpg Notice the discrepancy between the 1:1 Scaling bars at the top and bottom, and the black levels inherent in the video file - they're completely different from one another. This is also a problem completely unique to the PS3 - all other devices I've hooked up via DVI exhibit perfectly normal black levels. Any advice or help would be more than appreciated. I've tweaked almost every setting on both the PS3 and the 2707, and nothing's worked...

XPS_MAYHEM · Answer

check this linik out   http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_monitor&thread.id=76270

FatMaserati · Answer

LOL! I was about to say: read my thread.

For now, do this...

a) Put up with the greyness in games and in the menu for now. There's nothing you can do to fix it until Sony release (if ever) an update which lets you change the video output mode for everything.

b) Switch Blu-ray/DVD HDMI colour output to YPbPr and change your monitor colour to "HD YPbPr" when you watch Blu-ray movies. A bit of a pain, I know, but your Blu-ray movies will look sweet. You just have to change the monitor back to PC RGB when you go back to the menu/play games.

mholmes11 · Answer

All right, thanks for the help, guys... I did a search, but that particular thread didn't show up.   There's something curious about that 'DVI-HDMI' incompatability answer the PlayStation Support Tech gave, though: Haven't a lot of other people managed to connect their PS3s to their LCD monitors, without any greyness present in the images?   Why is the 2707WFP an exception?

FatMaserati · Answer

I think the 2707 is just very fussy in that only a PC can send it an RGB signal (whatver science is behind that) -OR- maybe PCs send a slightly different RGB signal to that of a PS3s RGB signal, and the monitor interprets it incorrectly. ??? No concrete ideas, sorry.

MacDaddy05 · Answer

I may have an answer, on my PS3, Blu-Ray movies would look pink, and I mean completely pink, the problem was the BD Movie setting, or atleast that's what I think it is called, was set to automatic, if you switch it to RGB it should look great.

That's the only problem I had with my PS3 hooked up to my 20in Dell monitor, and now I have it hooked up to my 37in Dell TV.

Message Edited by MacDaddy05 on 04-05-2007 12:06 AM

FatMaserati · Answer

MacDaddy05, maybe that worked for you and your monitor, but if you read my thread, you'll learn that that won't solve anything. The 'automatic' mode with the PS3 + 2707WFPc + HDMI-DVI cable = RGB anyway. The colours are correct, but the image is really bright and washed out. The only way to get correct blacks is to change output mode AND the monitor mode to YPbPr, and you can only do this for Blu-ray movies, not for the PS3 in general.

MacDaddy05 · Answer

Actually, you may try switching modes on your monitor if you haven't already, there is a Multimedia mode, gaming mode, and desktop mode,, try switch between the three and see if it helps at all.

FatMaserati · Answer

'Multimedia mode, gaming mode, and desktop mode' aren't available on the DVI input of the 2707WFP.

MacDaddy05 · Answer

Thought they might be since they are on my 20in.

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