DVI question with voom`

[iceshark]

Yep Its me again.
Did not want to add to other long thread.
Have a basic teckie question.

When I use my stock DVI cable I notice rolling light bars on screen. Almost like clouds.
In my past cband days it would almost look line a grounding problem giving harmonic distortion.
It is not extremely obvios but is there.

As an example
If I turn off VoomSTB I still see black letterbox screen faint in background and those cloudy bars or clouds rolling thru. on my tv screen.

If I swithch to Component input on tv or rca input I see just black screen and no bars.

It seems like DVI is always on no matter if STB is or not.
THose clouds though might be why I am not seeing as clear a pic as
with components that dont have them.

Does this make sense to anyone?
Is it my DVI cable possibly?
Thanks

 

[occammd]

dvi is digital, you'll get sparklies, not rolling clouds. When you say turn off, do you mean unplug or not?

 

[jimmykce1]

I still have random "black screen" when I use my DVI cable, which I never had before. So I ended up using component cables (Tributaries). The component cables gives a little better color and PQ is about the same. I have my box set to 720P and have it connected to a Sammy DLP. I will use the DVI for my new DVD player.

 

[iceshark]

dvi is digital, you'll get sparklies, not rolling clouds. When you say turn off, do you mean unplug or not?

turned off. I have not tryed unpugging as you asked.

I get what the last poster is refering too. Random black screen sounds correct.
It is not a digital picture or tiiling effect as I am aware with digital.

It is a background rolling cloudy thing. I notice very well with random black screen effect.

I agree with last post. I get better PQ and color with component. That is alittle dissapointing as I thought using DVI would be awesome as advertised!
THank you.

 

[occammd]

I had better color through component as well, but then I cranked the color up on DVI and it is just as good (better) now. Before it looked like a haze was over the picture.

 

[svx94]

I will be nice if you have another TV to try on. My guess the problem is the TV, rather than the DVI cable or STB.

 

[pgrutz]

I've got a JVC 57" I'Art and the picture is much sharper with the DVI cable. No probs with it at all. Looks great.

 

[Mr. Biggles]

Hmmmm....it's a stretch, but if I remember correctly (I don't use the V* supplied DVI cable) it comes sans any RFI shielded ferrites on the cable.