crackedmedia Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 Greeting all from a newbie to Plasma and DTV I just purchased a new TCL 42" Plasma and last week and am running a Samsung Multi - Region DVD on it via S-Video cable. Today I bought Composite cable and after connecting it all, the DVD will play a film for about 5 mins, then the image "freezes", then it looses the image entirely (grey squiggley lines) then after 1 second, re-connects and plays the movie fine again, until about 5 mins later when the process starts all over again! Do the "more experenced" of you know if I bought a dodgy cable? Or is my TCL Plasma faulty? I bought it from Retrovision for $1500. (I'm poor!) Like I said, it was working fine on S-Video (Just poor image) Thats why I went to composite. Perhaps I have something mis-matched? Eg NTSC dvds on a pal tv or something? Any help greatly appriciated Terence Monro Greensborough Vic.
Scalpel Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 Greeting all from a newbie to Plasma and DTV I just purchased a new TCL 42" Plasma and last week and am running a Samsung Multi - Region DVD on it via S-Video cable. Today I bought Composite cable and after connecting it all, the DVD will play a film for about 5 mins, then the image "freezes", then it looses the image entirely (grey squiggley lines) then after 1 second, re-connects and plays the movie fine again, until about 5 mins later when the process starts all over again! Do the "more experenced" of you know if I bought a dodgy cable? Or is my TCL Plasma faulty? I bought it from Retrovision for $1500. (I'm poor!) Like I said, it was working fine on S-Video (Just poor image) Thats why I went to composite. Perhaps I have something mis-matched? Eg NTSC dvds on a pal tv or something? Any help greatly appriciated Terence Monro Greensborough Vic. Firstly, composite is a poorer connection than S-video - Sure you dont mean component (three cables)? (Link to component images) (link to composite cables pictures (yellow one - the red and white are stereo audio)) Do you have another screen somewhere (friend?) where you can test the player? The player or the screen is the more likely culprit. The cable is the least likely source of the issue - it should work or not work, and cant freeze an image. The player should be set to output via the right sort of cable (often a menu item in the dvd player) - just make sure you know what sort of cable you are actually using (component vs composite). Do you have the same problem when you are displaying the DVD players own intrinsic menu (ie without a DVD), but still displaying with the same cable J.
crackedmedia Posted March 22, 2007 Author Posted March 22, 2007 Thanks J! Yes sorry you are right! I mean COMPONENT. Guess its not the lead (cant test on friends yet as they just have old tvs) At the back of the Samsung I switched it to Component. And yes when I take out a DVD and just leave the Menu on from the Samsung, the problem does not occur - Only when playing an actual DVD - So what would that suggest? Cheers Terence
Scalpel Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 Thanks J! Yes sorry you are right! I mean COMPONENT. Guess its not the lead (cant test on friends yet as they just have old tvs)At the back of the Samsung I switched it to Component. And yes when I take out a DVD and just leave the Menu on from the Samsung, the problem does not occur - Only when playing an actual DVD - So what would that suggest? Cheers Terence The only way you are going to isolate this problem is to try the DVD player elsewhere (? a shop). I presume that when you say you "swhitched it to component" you mean the cables were switched, rather than a hardware switch to select component. Does the DVD setup menu have an option to set the output as well (and PAL not NTSC). Either the DVD player has a fault in the component output, or there is a problem with the screen input. The fact that the DVD menu is displayed with a stable image would suggest that the screen is OK. J.
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