Example Screen Shots of C1 TFT Display

[Chris D]

As promised, I took some pictures of my C1 TFT display screen. Please excuse the blurriness on the close-ups. These are actually the first screen shots I've ever tried to take of anything. It was really interesting to me how light levels showed up COMPLETELY different in the pictures from what they were in real life. I had to turn the screen brightness WAY down to show even close to correctly in the pictures, otherwise it was way too washed out. I'd have to say that the screen looks even better in real life than the way it turns out in pictures.

Bonus points for anyone that can tell me what it is I'm showing on my screen!
















CHRIS
Luke: "Hey, I'm not such a bad pilot myself, you know"

[Scarp]

Chris,

Looks nice, but got some questions:

1) What is on the TFT when you do not have images from the DVD on it? A status screen or is just just blank?
2) When its blank, does the TFT glow or is it completely black?
3) Can the screen be completely turned off?
4) Does it come back on when changing sources or changing volume?

Being not completely black is one of my biggest annoyance with the Rotel 1098, thats why its going back to the store and exchanged for a C2

[Chris D]

Scarp-

answers to your questions here:
1. The display is user-selectable. You can choose to show video from the main output, video from the zone output (very useful if you want to preview a different source while you play something in the main, like cueing up a video to the place you want, or monitoring a security camera or baby monitor) unit parameters and menus like I show in the last picture, or just black.
2/3. If it's off, it's just black. It may glow black instead of being completely off (I'll have to check) but it's nothing that would be distracting.
4. If it's off, it doesn't come back on unless you want it to.




CHRIS
Luke: "Hey, I'm not such a bad pilot myself, you know"

[Scarp]

Thanks... i think the backlight (if that exists on a tft) is too high on the rotel 1098, maybe the people from parasound have it better

Disadvantage of the Parasound C1/C2 is the many lit buttons, but I think its kinda cool anyway.

I'll post some pics as soon as I have the C2

[Chris D]

Well, I checked, and it looks like the screen is actually off, pure black, when it's turned off, not just glowing black. It doesn't come back on when you select different inputs or change the volume. That all happens invisibly, until you turn the screen back on.




CHRIS
Luke: "Hey, I'm not such a bad pilot myself, you know"

[Scarp]

Thats good

[starford]

My observations:

There are two modes for the TFT: show Main (three states for this mode) or show Zone.

Note that if there's no video signal on either the S-Video or Composite video inputs for the selected source, there's nothing to show on the screen, so it's just a black background. The C1 doesn't pipe component video to the TFT at all, nor does the on-screen Status menu recognize an attached component video signal.

When set in show Main mode, the default and most common mode, you have three choices via the front panel button: show Status menu always (reported as 'Display On'), show the video signal of the selected source with the Status menu as a temporary overlay (reported as 'Preview') or off (reported briefly as 'Display Off'), which is a full-power-off state.

These modes are hard-switched by the front panel button and are static, thus not changed by any action of a source or configuration change. Also, I can't find a remote control equiv. button for it, so I turn the display off by hand before sitting down to watch a show.

The TFT is a 4:3 screen, so the C1 treats it as such, and widescreen formatted material shows in a letterbox while the menus stay full screen. There's a lot of action on the screen when a DVD is getting going, mainly driven by the numerous format changes in the audio stream.

For example, a movie may be prefaced by three studio splash screens and two pre-menu animations. Each one of these may have a different audio format (stereo, Pro Logic, Dolby Digital, DD EX) plus the no-signal transitions between them can cause the Status menu to be ever-updating. This is really only an annoyance if you are using the OSD video output, which I am now not using. Remember, there's no OSD on component video.

[Chris D]

Come on, nobody knows what I've got displayed on the screen there? Somebody has to watch those movies... they're quite popular! A banana for anyone that knows.




CHRIS
Luke: "Hey, I'm not such a bad pilot myself, you know"

[efarstad]

Ok, I knew a long time ago...but wanted someone else to get the banana...but it's......Veggie Tales!

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The Norwegian A/V Nut!
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[Chris D]

Erik Farstad, ladies and theater geeks, winner of the coveted banana! :banana:




CHRIS
Luke: "Hey, I'm not such a bad pilot myself, you know"