Dirty rotten ass-covering bastards at Mitsubishi...
I have a Mitsubishi WS-65909 TV (rear projection CRT 65" HDTV - Diamond series).
So, when I first installed my MythTV boxes, I wanted to
connect the PC to my TV. I noticed that it didn't have DVI
(grrr). I did notice, however that it had VGA (SCORE!).
Then, I noticed that the jack said "640x480" on it. That
sucked. I looked in the manual and it said that it only supports
640x480@60Hz. That was pretty annoying. So, my only choice
was to get the video into the HD Component video input. So, I
bought an
Audio Authority 9a60
so that I could convert the RGBHV signal in the VGA cable to Component
video. So, I played with modelines and everything I could find on
the Net and found out that I could get 960x540 working, but nothing
else. I still had pretty bad overscan, but it looked great, so I went
with it.
When I finally got it all going, I realized that I could
have just bought (or made) an RGBHV breakout cable, because the TV
supports that too (grr). Oh well... no sense buying something else.
Anyway, since I decided to mess with getting the res higher (to 1920x1080i), I was messing around searching on
AVS Forum
and stumbled across someone mentioning the 640x480 limit on the
Mitsubishi televisions. I was thinking to myself "man, that's
pretty lame to support a VGA connector and only support that".
Then, a reply to the post caught my eye. It said that there were
no restrictions on it. They lied.
They LIED. I never doubted the label and the
manual, but it was a lie. I connected the VGA connector to my
MythTV front-end directly (bypassing the AA 9a60) and it
WORKED FINE! Those rotten lying bastards! I wasted > $100 on something I did NOT need to buy.
I realize that they were covering their asses because, if
you just hook up a high refresh rate monitor-like resolution to the TV,
you could probably hurt the TV, but they could have pointed out that
the only
supported resolution is 640x480 and say that it can
support higher resolutions on devices designed to do ATSC signals or
whatever they need to say. They should have just let me know it
was possible.
Anyway,
Ebay, here we come.
T