I have a tv that supports 1080P so I hooked up the PS3 to a hdmi cable to get that. So now all of my dvdrips and all the videos on my playstation 3 harddrive looks like crap. I can bearly see anything on it. If I hook it up to an older tv which has no HD support, it looks even better than on my HDTV. Please tell me what to do. Do I need to downgrade the output to 480i or something? If so how you do that.
I've got my PC streaming my dvdrips etc perfectly, nothing wrong with image quality, same as on my PC monitor
Only problem is having to convert all my h264 coded files since the PS3 doesnt support a certain audio codec so that needs changing, something i cannot be bothered to do since i have too many fansubs which take ages to convert.
Like I've said in another thread, you may have an old HDMI cable, you really want any version 1.3 cable which can support 10Gbps transfers, anything lower only support 4.9Gbps. Only problem here is finding a cable where the packaging states its a version 1.3 cable
Sorry I'm in the UK. I got mine off ebay from a power seller with a high positive feedback.
Best way to check is play a video streaming from your PC then press the Select button I think. This brings up details of the video you are playing. At the top right it'll give you the current transfer speed, if that doesnt go anywhere near 10GBps or even above 5GBps you have a v1.2 or lower.
Just remember that with HDMI cables cheap cables and the expensive ones all perform the same at short distance, <5m. Anything longer than 5m or 10m is when you really want to be splashing out on the expensive stuff.
