Intensity & Panasonic Plasma

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

I wonder if the HDMI adapter supports SD video? I’ve previously encountered an HDMI board for a Plasma monitor which only supported HD. It came up in a post about half a year ago in this forum but I haven’t found it yet. Can you please try testing the SD functionality of the HDMI board, preferably with the HDMI output of a camcorder when playing back SD material?

If the HDMI board definitely supports SD, then please email support@ blackmagic-design.com and we can send you a utility to interrogate the HDMI board of your monitor. This might help reveal why SD isn’t working.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Simon Blackledge]

Luke do you have a utility that can interrogate the inputs also ?

[Pacbyte]

I will do some more troubleshooting over the weekend. I

[John Qoyawayma]

Have you had any luck with SD to the HDMI module of the Panasonic? I have a 42 Panasonic Plasma and it will not display SD from the Intensity card either. I did try a dvd player with a rather plain vanilla SD dvd to the plasma and it worked perfectly. Somewhere on my desk are the specs for the hdmi module from Panasonic. When I find them I can shoot them to you on Monday if you’d like them.

[Luke Maslen]

Hi John,

Thanks for testing this. Which model of Panasonic display are you using? Kristian has emailed you a utility which should extract the EDID information from your display so we can check why it doesn’t work in SD.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Pacbyte]

Sorry it took so long to respond to my own thread, but I have some answers and a new question.

First, after a series or restarts (both the MacPro and the Plasma Screen) I was able to get a picture on the Plasma via HDMI in SD. Unfortunately, sometimes the picture looks like one of the colors (RGB) is missing. This occurs in SD and HD. Everything works as it should, and all of a sudden, the picture is all screwed up.

The solutions I’ve found aren’t great. Sometimes switching between the modes works. For instance, switch between 720P 60 and 720P 59.97 several times and the display is normal. But other times I have to quit and restart FCP. Finally if nothing else works I restart the computer. Obviously, this is not a good situation to be in when you have clients in the room with you, so any help is appreciated.

Here are the results of the EDIO test:

/* Read result 0x0, 0x100 bytes */
/* 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F */
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0x17,0x49,0x4b,0x21,0x08,0x00,0x01,0x01,0x01,0x01,0x01,0x01,0x01,0x01,0x01,0x01,
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0x02,0x03,0x18,0x71,0x48,0x84,0x05,0x13,0x14,0x03,0x02,0x12,0x01,0x23,0x09,0x07,
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0x10,0x3e,0x96,0x00,0x9a,0x26,0x53,0x00,0x00,0x18,0x8c,0x0a,0xd0,0x8a,0x20,0xe0,
0x2d,0x10,0x10,0x3e,0x96,0x00,0x33,0x26,0x43,0x00,0x00,0x18,0x8c,0x0a,0xd0,0x90,
0x20,0x40,0x31,0x20,0x0c,0x40,0x55,0x00,0x9a,0x26,0x53,0x00,0x00,0x18,0x01,0x1d,
0x00,0xbc,0x52,0xd0,0x1e,0x20,0xb8,0x28,0x55,0x40,0x9a,0x26,0x53,0x00,0x00,0x1e,
0x01,0x1d,0x80,0xd0,0x72,0x1c,0x16,0x20,0x10,0x2c,0x25,0x80,0x9a,0x26,0x53,0x00,
0x00,0x9e,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0b,
/* Checksums ok */

[John Qoyawayma]

Thanks Luke, got the utility but I don’t have a hdmi to dvi cable…yet for the test. As to the problems at 720 that pacbyte is having, double check the setup on the input for the hdmi from your remote and check to see what the freq signals are. Sometimes for whatever reason the signal looses sync. That shouldn’t happen but my Panasonic will let me change the freq and hopefully leave it fixed where’s it supposed to be. Kind of a pain. As for SD, I think the hdmi module is the culprit. Fixed at 525i for SD near as I can tell. Couldn’t even get it to like PAL either. One other strange behavior coming from FCP is it doesn’t like the supplied bars and tone from BMD dvd sample at 1080i. Won’t import. Quicktime plays it, FCP refuses to import it. Bang head on wall….

[Pacbyte]

My Panasonic does not let me change the frequency. It displays it, but I can’t change it. Of interest, when the Intensity is set to 720, the Panasonic displays the frequency as 60hz, whether the intensity is set to 60hz or 59.97hz. At first I thought that the Panasonic simply labeled a 59.97hz input as 60hz, but when SD is fed into the it, it lists it as 59.9hz.

[John Qoyawayma]

Low and behold I did a reinstall of BMD version 1.5 and now the Panasonic works in ntsc.