[byron]

since buying the HR20 i've had it hooked up to my bedroom LCD TV... I just used the component inputs b/c i had a set of component cables handy. after some of the recent threads over at TCF about broadcasters turning on the HDCP flag and downrezzing non-HDCP compliant ouputs i decided to buy a HDMI -> DVI cable for the unit.. i plugged it all in and everything looked great... however, now that i've had time to use it more i've noticed during some commercials (SD only) and on some SD channels the very top row of pixels i see sporatic white (and sometimes other color) pixels that sometimes resemble another part of the picture... if i pause it and switch to the component imput, the aftifacts are gone.

anyone else seeing this?

 

[litzdog911]

You might be seeing Closed Caption and other text information embedded in the vertical blanking interval. This portion of the video signal should not be visible under normal circumstances. But sometimes, especially if your TV's overscan is minimal, you will see those flashing pixels.

But I'm not sure why changing from HDMI to component changes things. Perhaps the TV's video overscan settings are slightly different between those two inputs.

 

[byron]

just hooked the HR20 up to my RPTV via HDMI -> DVI and i don't see it... but if the problem is overscan i'm sure i wouldn't see it on this thing.. mucho overscan on my RPTV. the odd thing is that when i'm seeing the problem on my LCD TV in my bedroom, its b/c i have it set to 720p display mode (since thats naitive to the set)... i don't care for naitive mode on the HR20 (its too slow and annoying IMO). if i tune to cnn and have the HR20 set to 720p (stretch, pillar or zoom) i still see the artifacts. if i set it to any of the 1080i modes, the artifacts are gone. would you say it could still be an overscan issue? odd that an LCD set seems to like 1080i better than 720p. hrmmm.

 

[byron]

did a lot of searching on the web last night and it looks like you are indeed correct litz.. apparently olevia lcd sets do this with a 1280 x 760 input and that makes absolutely no sense to me... why would it display its naitive resolution differently than it does 1920x1080?