Does your console know if you have a HDTV?
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Does your console know if you have a HDTV?
I was just wondering how on earth it works. If I put my TV in 480i mode the game boots up in 480i. If a HDTV is put into 480p mode the console automatically detects it and prompts you to change to prog scan.
So how does this work?
So how does this work?
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Gamecube will do it on boot up. Burnout 2 does on PS2 bootup (I'm thinking burnout 2 might be a memory card thing).
PS2 progressive DVD option is grayed out when plugged into SDTV, but when plugged into HDTV the option is lit again
I'm using component cables throughout.
Maybe there is another explanation.
PS2 progressive DVD option is grayed out when plugged into SDTV, but when plugged into HDTV the option is lit again
I'm using component cables throughout.
Maybe there is another explanation.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
That's odd. My slim PS2 is dumb as hell, it always tried to play DVD movies in 480p when hooked up by component cables, despite the standard-definition TV. I can't seem to set any options for the DVD driver, either, where's the option located? Anyway, I ended up going back to the S-Video cables for the PS2 and picked up a real DVD player for the TV's component input.
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Isnt there an option in the main options?nZero wrote:That's odd. My slim PS2 is dumb as hell, it always tried to play DVD movies in 480p when hooked up by component cables, despite the standard-definition TV. I can't seem to set any options for the DVD driver, either, where's the option located? Anyway, I ended up going back to the S-Video cables for the PS2 and picked up a real DVD player for the TV's component input.
Pressing select whilst in DVD player mode has the option to go progressive or not. However if your already in progressive mode and you don't have 480p compatilbity its hardly any use to you
Just take your PS2 round someones house who has 480p and disable it.
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That seems unlikely, you should check again. Unless your component cables are psychic, they should have no knowledge of the technology they are being plugged intoneorichieb1971 wrote:PS2 progressive DVD option is grayed out when plugged into SDTV, but when plugged into HDTV the option is lit again
I'm using component cables throughout.
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Yes, because the direct connector to the dreamcast uses different pins/signals so it's obvious which mode it's in.Michaelm wrote:Well, how does your Dreamcast know it's using VGA or RGB and then prompts you that the game doesn't support that mode ?
It's the pin story.
However, detecting a 480i vs 480p capable device over component cannot use that method. Component has no provisions for capability enumeration back to the source device. There is no pin or wire the display device can set high/low/whatever to signal back to the source what resolutions it's capable of.
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Yes, that's very close. The DC VGA cable actually got a certain pin of the Vedio Pinout shorted. The DC console treat this as single to activiate VGA mode.SuperPang wrote:Because they're different cables?Michaelm wrote:Well, how does your Dreamcast know it's using VGA or RGB and then prompts you that the game doesn't support that mode ?
If the console found the game you try to start dosen't support VGA mode, it prompts and stop execution.
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