cinemaphile7

Maybe it is normal, but let me describe what happens first...


When you select video 1 through 6 with no connection, the picture is black.
If you increase the brightness to more than 3/4, you can see a lot of details.

My "problem" is that on my TV, the picture is not stable. I can see some "interferences".
More troubling, I have a thin horizontal line that comes down every 5 seconds or so.

Is this normal? (The TV picking up some television signals even without an antenna for example.) Or is a problem with my TV.

Can it also be inteferences in my electric supply? (I do have a panamax line conditioner.)

Thanks for all responses.

Cardiff Giant11

quote:<HR>Originally posted by cinemaphile7:
Maybe it is normal, but let me describe what happens first...


When you select video 1 through 6 with no connection, the picture is black.
If you increase the brightness to more than 3/4, you can see a lot of details.

My "problem" is that on my TV, the picture is not stable. I can see some "interferences".
More troubling, I have a thin horizontal line that comes down every 5 seconds or so.

Is this normal? (The TV picking up some television signals even without an antenna for example.) Or is a problem with my TV.

Can it also be inteferences in my electric supply? (I do have a panamax line conditioner.)

Thanks for all responses.<HR>

I think that is normal to all television sets that are not HDTV. I believe it stems from the process of interlacing, in which half of the picture is displayed and 1/60th of a second later the other half is displayed. That horizontal line you're seeing MAY simply be a scan line moving in the vicinity of the horizontal support wires of the picture tube. I'm no expert but that's the way it seems to me. The obvious question though is, what are you doing with the brightness turned all the way up, A.K.A. "Torch Mode"?


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BartleyR7

Which model of WEGA do you own?

I do not have this problem with the 32XBR400. (Just for the record, I am also using a line conditioner.)

I agree, though. Why turn the brightness all the way up?

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[This message has been edited by BartleyR7 (edited November 13, 2000).]

cinemaphile7

quote:<HR>Originally posted by BartleyR7:
Which model of WEGA do you own?<HR>

36XBR400

quote:<HR>I agree, though. Why turn the brightness all the way up? <HR>

Doing some testing.
(Because of another potential problem.
When I use component connection, the top left of the image is blacker than the rest of the image during very dark scenes.
This does not happen when I use composite connection. I am buying a S-video cable to compare this evening.)