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That's because they are viewing at 480i

Posted by 4season on August 10, 2007 at 07:13:13:
I would not be at all surprised to find a highish percentage of PS/3 consoles still using the standard-issue composite video cable! We high-def fans sometimes think it's obvious that digital signals should remain digital, and that composite video is bottom-of-the-barrel, but to the general public, there's nothing obvious about that at all.

PS/3 itself doesn't help matters: If you temporarily use that composite video cable then later switch to HDMI, the console doesn't automatically switch to the new connection! A pretty intelligent coworker got hit with this, called for tech support, and THEY couldn't help, and he got to thinking that HDMI didn't work. Finally I had to dig the composite video cable out of the PS/3 packaging and try it on my own console and quickly figured out what was going on. But again, it wouldn't be obvious to most people.

Once I gave him the gist of the problem, my coworker had no problems getting the HDMI link working, but even then, he was disappointed to note that his TV didn't support PS/3's max resolution, and seemed underwhelmed by his first Blu-Ray experience ("300"). I'll loan him some of my own B-D movies and see if it grows on him. In any event, he is primarily a gamer, and is eagerly awaiting the new Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil games.