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| Topic: | HD Pronto macro This thread has 5 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Friday October 22, 2004 at 21:26 |
dougstercl Lurking Member |
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Hi,
I'm new to this forum, and new to hi-tech TVs, ..etc. I hope somebody might clear up an issue please. I have: Samsung 56" DLP, Denon receiver AVR-1804, Polk audio, Denon DVD-910, Pronto TSU3000/01, and HD Comcast box. The EQ installer programed Pronto, but each time I want to view HD I have to manually push the HD icon on Pronto. He said if I had a dish, vs cable that he could program Pronto to switch automactially to HD, and back to regular programs. My question: is there now a macro, code, or template that will allow regular, and HD to do this by itself w/o having to toggle the function back and forth? This was done about 8-9 mths ago so I'm hoping there is something new for cable, and Pronto will function better. I searched, and searched but could not find anything on this subject. Thanks for any help. -Doug
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| Post 2 made on Tuesday October 26, 2004 at 14:29 |
Impaqt RC Moderator |
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You have a Choice..... Upscale all the Analog to HD... Which the cable boxes to do a terrible job of or do the manual switching..... There is no way for the pronto to know what channel you are on in order to runthe macro automatically.
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| Post 3 made on Tuesday October 26, 2004 at 20:19 |
Doug,
I have a plasma monitor and use TWC. I added an icon to the main menu for HD which jumps to a HD lineup device page. Since TWC only has about 8 HD channels, I was able to add 8 icons to this page. I then built a macro for each channel which switches the cable box to the correct HD channel and makes the toggle switch change at the same time. There is also a return macro on the page which switches you back to non HD and reverts all the toggles. Mine's a little more complicated that that since I run all my channels(except HD) through a RockPro video scaler, but you get the idea. Easy to do, and works like a champ. Good luck.
Cheers...Joe
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| Post 4 made on Tuesday October 26, 2004 at 21:44 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Ok, maybe I'm missing the obvious, but what exactly does the HD button do anyways? I have Time Warner cable, and I don't change anything to go from regular SDTV to HD. Is this button a macro to stretch SD across a wide screen or something?
Mark
Don't flame me because I'm stupid :-(
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| Post 5 made on Wednesday October 27, 2004 at 11:27 |
Impaqt RC Moderator |
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Thats because your using "Choice 1" frommy response... Your letting the Cable box do the Conversion from Anlog to HD... Which it does a terrible job at..... f you switch your box to NTSC output and run a Composite video to your TV, your analog and standard digital channels will look Substantially better. Only HD looks good onthe HD output of these cable boxes.... They've got the worst HD upconversion chips I've ever seen in a box...
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| Post 6 made on Wednesday October 27, 2004 at 22:57 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Ok, well I'm happy with how the SD channels look. I think they look as good as they ever did on my 32" tube tv. Maybe I'll try that someday, but I don't even think my cable box has that option. I have been all through that menu system.
Mark
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