Annoying White Flecks?

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In article <rx56d.4930$MD5.484514@news20.bellglobal.com>,
"KRUNK" <mrsarcasm@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I just got my HD Cable Box today and have noticed that, on the HD
> channels, -even on the preview one-that I see these annoying white specks
> wherever there are dark colors. It looks like interference the way TV used
> to look with an antenna-although obviously much clearer and not near the
> extent-just similar to that. Is this a common problem? Could it be from an
> inferior cable signal/inferior cable that I'm using? I'm with Rogers Cable
> in Toronto and the retards at the help desk are clueless and
> disinterested-not an easy combinaion to deal with

It's hard to tell what your problem is without knowing what your specks
look like.

Is it a sort of shimmering? Does it tend to be in more or less vertical
stripes in the same places? Does it show up on every digital channel,
or just a few? My first ATSC tuner had some bad video RAM which caused
a shimmering effect (when the RAM wasn't fast enough for the DAC), and
after a day or two, I finally realized that was what it was and got it
exchanged.

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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:13:20 -0400, "KRUNK" <mrsarcasm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>I just got my HD Cable Box today and have noticed that, on the HD
>channels, -even on the preview one-that I see these annoying white specks
>wherever there are dark colors. It looks like interference the way TV used
>to look with an antenna-although obviously much clearer and not near the
>extent-just similar to that. Is this a common problem? Could it be from an
>inferior cable signal/inferior cable that I'm using? I'm with Rogers Cable
>in Toronto and the retards at the help desk are clueless and
>disinterested-not an easy combinaion to deal with
>

I had the exact same problem with my SA3100HD box. It needed three
replacements to solve the problem. The Time-Warner people that came
over had no idea what the problem was. It finally took a supervisor
who had a recall notice for the boxes to get the problem fixed. I
still have a copy of the recall notice. If you want a copy email me:

DONOTSPAMjeffotf@bigfoot.com (remove the capital letters)

-Jeff

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In article <CQp6d.8006$MD5.716174@news20.bellglobal.com>,
"KRUNK" <mrsarcasm@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Thanks for the replies. The specks are always visible (since changing from
> the digital box to the HD digital box) on the darker areas and are often in
> a vertical, tiny stripe. I've got the Rogers weasels coming out to switch
> the cable that is used as the specks are only a minor problem compared to
> the picture and sound dropping out constantly on ALL digital channels-like
> tonight watching Six Feet Under-screen went black over 20 times (I lost
> count around 15) and my Audio receiver was flipping out because of the
> signal coming and going. I was ready to call ExpressVu-because I was
> getting so pissed off.
> SO far, the actual TV has been a great experience, but the cable-as expected
> from Rogers-a major disappointment.

Yeah, it sounds like you have a bad box. That box has RAM problems.
That's why I asked if there were vertical stripes of speckling, because
that's what bad video RAM does to a picture. I'm sure your video and
audio dropouts are related to it too.