Help with Mitsubishi wd-62628

[paulyg]

My Father-in-Law bought a Mitsubishi DLP in 06 when it first came out. It was one of the first 1080p tvs I heard of. I bought him a pioneer blu-ray player over the weekend and hooked it up for him last night. The hdmi input on the tv DOES NOT Accept 1080p. It says it's a 1080p display, but it takes 1080p through the ieee1394. Does this make sense? How do I connect it and get 1080p?

[paulyg]

anyone have an idea?

[dereksworl]

It won't accept the 1080p signal through the HDMI? what displays when you try, just a blank screen?

[Fors*]

Do you happen to know the model # of the TV?

[paulyg]

If I manually tell it to display in 1080p, I get a warning that it cant display it and the screen goes blue.

[paulyg]

the model # is Mitsubishi wd-62628. From what I read on CNET, it can't accept 1080p through hdmi, only ieee1394. I can't find a hdmi to fire wire adapter.

[Fors*]

Originally Posted by paulyg

the model # is Mitsubishi wd-62628. From what I read on CNET, it can't accept 1080p through hdmi, only ieee1394. I can't find a hdmi to fire wire adapter.

I copied this review from an Amazon customer and it sheds some light on your issue:

"I bought this set around a year ago. I waited for Blu-Ray DVD players to come down in price thinking I would be able to view movies and content from other 1080p devices. The catch is that the TV only allows 1080p input signals through the coaxial and Firewire ports. It's HDMI and component ports will only accept a signal up to 1080i. The real problem is that most game and other content vendors push 1080p through component and HDMI. So while you will be able to see a 1080p signal when TV stations start sending out 1080p broadcast you will not be able to enjoy 1080p external content unless it's from a firewire device. I'm totally disappointed by this as I payed a lot more than $1,700.00 for this set. Mitsubitshi is playing the "We told you it was 1080p capable but you didn't ask if the inputs were compatible" game. Don't fall for it. Look at other products."

The ieee1394 is a front DV decoder for digital video camcorders, nothing else. It does not have anything to do with getting a 1080p signal to be displayed as 1080p.

I think the "1080p language" may have tricked you at the time you purchased this TV, thinking it would display 1080p material, when in fact, it only has some kind of deinterlacing system with inputs incompatible to provide 1080p.

I'm sorry about your situation, but I hope I was able to shed some light on the subject....

[paulyg]

Thanks for looking, I found this on ecoustics.com

Next the features and a bonus for older Mitsu owners. I have a Mitsubishi WD-62628 1080P DLP TV. This unit was one of the first 1080P TV's made. They did not have the video processing capability at the time to take a 1080P input. So it's max input on the main HDMI connector or component video is 1080i and the TV upconverts to 1080P. This has left owners of this family of TV's with a quandary in that they want to see movies from their Blu-Ray player in 1080P not 1080i. There have been rumors that you can use the HDMI-2 input for native 1080P input if you tell the TV that a computer is connected. Well I can confirm that this actually works just fine !! You set the Net Command to enable HDMI-2 and that a PC is what is on that input. Disable the audio part (if you are going to use the analog outputs from the Panny like me) and then tell the blu-ray player to output at 1080P (rather than auto-detect). The TV will momentarily display a message that the video signal is non-standard, but will then display it anyway. So I get HD audio and 1080P video with my older TV and non-HDMI audio processor!! Bonus #2 is that this Panny player also has picture controls for brightness, contrast, gamma, color, and black level so you can tweak the picture if necessary. It also has canned settings (normal, cinema and 2 others). I find that movies look best in Cinema. It deepens the color and seems to provide better color spectrum.

I will try this and see if it works

[Fors*]

Go ahead and see if it improves your PQ, however I do not think you will see the true clarity and PQ that blu-ray can offer due to the TV's limitations.