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In Reply to: Re: Decision has been made posted by Rich H on June 23, 2003 at 20:37:28:

Hi Rich-
I went off on the last post with just my wife's
word. Being an engineer that has to deal with video
etc. problems all day, I should have known better. When
I got home to check it out, shure enough there was a group
of black pixels surrounding a white spot (resembling a flower).
After a reboot and changing sources and cabling I got it
to only show up on the first input with DSS as a source on
either the Svid or composite inputs. The component inputs
from DVD worked correctly. After more dinking around, it stopped
completely, and has been working properly since with all sources.
I haven't called to unreserve the other... I want to
wait another day to insure all is well. I had read a year or more ago
that dying pixels was a potential hazard, so I was most likely
hyper-sensitive to that information. I had also read an article
on Asian production of plasmas and the reason at that time they
were so expensive was they had about a 90% factory failure rate,
and that wasn't even including shipment damages. That equated to
big bucks to the public.
The "fuzziness" was on composite ins (DSS). On a reference
NTSC Sony monitor, NTSC looks quite tight, so it's not composite
as a whole, but may be the source receiver. The S-vid looks
better. The component ins look similar to the S-vid ins. I'll
be doing a complete setup with a Tektronix reference bar generator
tonight, using a bunch of signals. I also today made up a
handful of tight spec coax high flex 75 ohm BNC terminated cables
that I have gold BNC to RCA's for. I put some of them in last night
for the component from the DVD, and they locked better and looked
better. I'll go down the AC filtering road when I get more time.
I can easily borrow conditioners from my audio rig for testing.
Thansk again for everyone's help and advise,
RFG

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Re: Decision has been made