[mythtv-users] VGA to Component adaptors

[Jeff Wormsley]

Julian Edwards wrote:

> I completely concur.  I've got the Key Digital converter and the 
> (Panasonic) TV displays a fantastic picture but flashes its input 
> identifier over the picture for any of the modelines I came up with 
> that gave a stable picture. This is *really* annoying and has forced 
> me back to crappy svideo.
>
> You can probably imagine the response I got from the customer services 
> department .... :/

Let me guess... Samsung rear projection?  Jarod's sample doesn't do that 
much on mine (it will pop up in the gap between the menu and live TV), 
but is horribly overscanned.  I've gotten a few less overscanned 
modelines to work, but with that horrid "COMPONENT 2" thing flashing 
everywhere.  I did figure out how to get rid of it, though, on my FX5200 
card.  Use nvidiasettings to bump the brightness up above about .2, then 
turn the brightness down on the set.  I'm sure that loses a bit of the 
range, but the "COMPONENT 2" thing quits flashing up, even on an all 
black screen.  I never did figure out how to make the settings restore 
on boot.  For some reason, I had to reset it every time I rebooted.

Jeff.