[megatherium]

So I hooked up my new Panasonic BD-30 blu-ray player to my Panasonic plasma TV last weekend, select the second HDMI input (to which the player is connected), and put a movie into the player. I see the blue screen, with the blu-ray logo on it, on my TV, while the disk is loading. Then suddenly, I’m watching cable TV. The TV mysteriously switched to the other HDMI input; I pushed not one button. I switched inputs, to put the player on the other HDMI input, and it still happened. This strange behavior seems to be connected to something called EZSync, which I turned off. It works properly now (and indeed, the picture quality is outstanding—none of the compression blur that “HD” cable has).

[holden]

There's a good chance the Panny TV automatically switched over to cable TV because it didn't detect a usable signal coming from the Blu-Ray player. Displays often seek to the first usable signal they find in cycling through the possibilities.

The output of the Blu-Ray player may have been set to a screen aspect ratio and timing your TV can't handle, e.g., 1080p at 60Hz.

Try setting the output from the BD-30 to 720p (60Hz, always), making sure it's outputting onto HDMI.

"compression blur that 'HD' cable has". There's certainly always more to learn hanging out high def video, eh?

HF