NEC 2490 and Comcast

[rlsrls]

I have been toying with the idea of getting a extra cable/DVR box for my home office so I could watch live TV/DVR recording via my 2490. I have watched DVD's and they look great.

On my way home from work I purchased an HDMI to DVI video adapter. The pins appear to be a single link DVI-D layout . After connecting the Cable/DVR box to the 2490, the monitor complained that it could not handle interlacing and directed me to press the Reset + Exit buttons. After pressing the buttons the monitor displayed the broadcast and started a countdown clock. When the countdown reached 0 the monitor would no longer display the broadcast any more unless I repeated the button press sequence.

I tried the connection on both the DVI-D and DVI-I ports with the same results.

in the Trouble shooting section (page 37) of the manual it mention that I need to change the setting of the input device to progressive.

I searched the menus of the cable box to see if it had any interlace/progressive settings but did not find any.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

 

[Armatoste]

You need to set your Cable box to 720p. The 2490 doesn't to interlaced input signals.

 

[10e]

Some cable boxes have a hidden service menu that allows you to do an HD setup and set the specific resolution.

I don't know which brand of cable box you have, but mine is a Scientific Atlanta 3250HD and I found the HD setup "wizard" by pressing the guide+info button, holding them, and then turning on the unit. This allowed me to set 720p, and once this was done, the options for resolution appeared in the regular settings menus. I think Comcast uses Motorola and Scientific Atlanta, so this may help you as well.