Plasma panel to laptop - oops, I broke it...

[2 rocks]

...Well not completely, but...

Hi
Just wondered if there's anyone with a bit of wisdom on this:

Kim has a 42" Samsung plasma in her study and being a helpful guy, I thought I would connect up her Compaq Presario so she could stream Series 1 of The Walking Dead (yes, she missed the lot :p). In case it is relevant, the model is:
PS42B450B1D

The laptop only has RGB out, so plugged that in and the panel goes through an 'auto adjust' - nothing too unusual about that and the desktop looks fine displayed on the panel. I ran into an issue routing the audio to the 5.1 HTIB she has, so couldn't continue, however...

Unplug laptop & RGB cable, switch back to Foxtel and uh-oh...everything has a bluish cast. So spend a while in the tv's menu trying reset, playing with red/green balance and anything else I can find, but no luck. :censored: Switch to DVD and yep, the OSD that says "Sony Home Theatre" should have white text not blue...:mad:

So, the tv's self diagnosis brings up a colour test pattern and all the colours, including white are correct. The text/colours in the tv's menu/OSD are correct, crisp white, no cast.

I assume from this it is not a problem with the panel. Anyone have any experience with this? Any assistance greatly appreciated :(.

Cheers
Mike

[VladTepes]

To clarify - is it just the broadcast through the foxtel box which is dodgy?
(eg normal TV all OK)

[2 rocks]

Hi Vlad
No, it seems to be on all inputs. E.g free to air has it, Fox has it and while I haven't actually 'played' a DVD, the DVD player home screen has a blue cast on the usually white text that reads 'Sony Home Theatre System".

On that basis I would have said something has been altered/stuffed on the panel, but as I mentioned, the text/colours of the on screen display/menu are correct. So not being completely TV electronics savvy, I assume that the display itself is ok, but maybe the decoding software has been altered somehow?

Seems a bit extreme for just plugging in an RGB cable :mad:. I used to do it all the time on my Viera plasma panel with no ill effects.

Cheers
Mike