Hey guys,
I went and bought Planet Earth on Bluray to show off my new home theatre system and the majority of it looks absolutely amazing, but there are a few scenes where there is large amounts of pixelation which looks like static, certain shades or something.
Anyone know what this could be? ie tv problem, ps3 problem, bluray data problem, AVR?
I'm running ps3 through Onkyo TX-805SR via hdmi, then hdmi from that to the panasonic, as far as i know no video processing is occuring.

Could be a low quality HDMI cable letting you down on scenes with a large amount of data.

If your using the ones that came with the units, you might be better off investing a few $ from ezyhd (foxy's cables) and ruling that out.

Cheers,
Bitey

Yeah I'm not really sold on the whole high quality low quality cable thing.
The only time i think you need better cable is if the one you're using is melting away the shielding because there's too much juice going through.
If it was a data bottleneck it would have been the whole picture not a specific area and what could only be my guess to be the same shade.
Thanks for the offer though, but my gut tells me its more likely a setting i've overlooked or limitations on the onkyo,ps3 and/or tv.

G'day evilstuie

Try this test

Change resolution output limit to 1080i or 720p eg resolutions that are lower than 1080p

See if you still have the same problem

If you don't, it's probably your cable

If you do, problem may be "somewhere else"

Try it and report back your findings

MrHP

Theres been reports of low quality hdmi cables causing areas of screen corruption (pink for example), sparklies etc - not just 'not working'. There are definatly different grades of cables, that may look the same, but are definatly different! Cable length also has a lot to do with it.

You could always plug the ps3 straight into the tv, swap the cables on the bad scene and see if you can recreate the problem.

Anyways seems youve made your mind up about it not being a cable issue, so perhaps someone else can think of a reason for it being something else ... Could be a dirty disc (youve cleaned it/examined it allready?)

It is only Planet Earth that has this problem (or problems?)

Cheers,
Bitey

Not every scene on Planet Earth was filmed at 1080p (have a read of the back of the disc set), so possibly the static you are seeing is on one of the lower resolution scenes??

I have the Planet Earth on BR as well, which scenes were you finding the problem in?

I dont have exact times but the majority of it was in a small section of a rolling wave, i think just before the big ass shark slo-mo bit (god i love that bit!) and some of a mountainscape.

Everyone's a bit confused by the "static" term I think. Could be macroblocking, could be a dodgy cable etc.

HDMI data is uncompressed, so regardless of the picture it's displaying it's transferring the same amount of data all the time. Shouldn't be an issue. I guess the type of data could affect things (i.e. lots of 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 transitions)

Could you pause it and take a photo?

Even though parts were filmed at lower film resolution, the final disc will be mastered all in one resolution (i.e. those scenes get upscaled). I'd doubt that would be an issue at all.