PlayStation®3 Technical Help

[captkrill]

Hello all,

This is my first post here so please be gentle.

I have an older Samsung 56" DLP - HLN567WX

Went out and myself a PS3 so my wife could watch the LotR BluRay Extended blahblahblah she got for her birthday. Been wanting a PS3 for a while so i figured that was a legitimate reason to buy one.

Got home hooked up the Monster Component cables I got along with it to play HD.

Couldnt get it to display at all, so went and got the Official Sony component cables and still wouldnt work. Did some finagling on the settings of the TV and the PS3 finally got component to recognize and got 480p/720p/1080i set up (TV doesnt support 1080p)

Well, everytime i try and play any BluRay movie, be it Space Balls or a Looney Toons collection or the LotR collection, TV says Unsupported Mode. I can play DVDs without issue on the PS3 but BluRay just does not play. Bluray plays through composite cables (red/yellow/white RCA) but not through component (Green/Blue/Red/Red/White)

Could there be a setting I am missing or is it because the TV doesnt support 1080p? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks, Tony

[fi8767]

Try going into Display settings on PS3 and deselecting all display settings apart from 1080i.

[captkrill]

No dice on that suggestion fi8767.

I also bought Final Fantasy XIII and can play it just fine. Dont know if this help ruling out that the player is bad or not. Just giving as much info as I can

[captkrill]

Anyone have any other suggestions?

[SuperFastZombie]

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captkrill wrote:

Anyone have any other suggestions?

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Hi captkrill,

Give the steps in this thread a go and let me know how you get on.

SFZ

[OrdosAlpha]

The PS3 Slim will only output an HDCP signal via HDMI. If you're not using an HDMI cable, then you can't watch Blu-Ray movies.

[captkrill]

Can you site any references to that statement ordos? 

Tried googling it and I seem to find contradicting arguments.

Just trying to see if I need a new TV or not.

Seems like gameinformer and geek[dot]com said posted official statements from Sony about it.

Guess im SOL.

Thanks for the help, Ordos