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New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

post #1 of 8
10/15/08 at 3:59pm
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I just got a new LCD HD TV and have many questions. I'll put each in a separate message.

Some channels have a band of noise along the top of the picture area. What/why is this, and how do I remove it?

Here's an example:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7...ndattopsd4.jpg
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post #2 of 8
10/15/08 at 4:03pm

Re: New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

Welcome! I've moved your thread to the Display Devices area. It might help if you indicated the make and model of your LCD.

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I'll put each in a separate message.
As you wish, but please put all the separate messages in this one thread.

M.
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post #3 of 8
10/15/08 at 4:10pm
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Re: New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

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Originally Posted by Michael Reuben
Welcome! please put all the separate messages in this one thread.

Even when they are completely unrelated topics? Does this mean that each participant here is required to post all of the messages they initiate in a single thread?
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post #4 of 8
10/15/08 at 4:16pm

Re: New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

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Originally Posted by i_am_jim
Even when they are completely unrelated topics? Does this mean that each participant here is required to post all of the messages they initiate in a single thread?
Of course not. I thought you were saying you had many questions about your new LCD TV (make and model still unknown). To the extent you want to ask questions about that device, this is the thread.

M.
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post #5 of 8
10/15/08 at 6:03pm

Re: New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

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Originally Posted by i_am_jim
I just got a new LCD HD TV and have many questions. I'll put each in a separate message.

Some channels have a band of noise along the top of the picture area. What/why is this, and how do I remove it?

Here's an example:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7...ndattopsd4.jpg

For some channels broadcast in SD (standard definition), there is a bit of information at the top that is usually masked by the overscan of SD TVs of the past. Nowadays, with the newer LCD HDTVs, they don't have any overscan, so you see all of the stuff that is usually hidden by overscan of older TVs for the non-HD programming.
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post #6 of 8
10/15/08 at 6:16pm
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Re: New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

I take it from your reply there is no way to get rid of this stuff. Is that correct?


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post #7 of 8
10/16/08 at 2:02am

Re: New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

It's not just SD programming. 4:3 HD programming will sometimes see this as well. A good example is OTA HD local channels. Mine all have garbage at the top of the screen if it's a 4:3 broadcast. I have not seen it with 16:9.

I do not know of any flat-panel display with an overscan adjustment (although some of our respected ISF calibrators and TV gurus might). There may be a scroll adjustment in the setup menu of the TV which would allow you to move the picture up slightly, but I have not seen a user accessable scoll adjustment which works for any picture mode except zoom mode.

Much like the old mantra for widescreen images, "Watch the picture, not the bars", this still applies today. "Watch the incredible HD picture, not the trash at the top of the screen."
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post #8 of 8
10/16/08 at 2:10pm
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Re: New LCD HD -- What's With This White Noise Band?

Thanks for the replies.

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Much like the old mantra for widescreen images, "Watch the picture, not the bars", this still applies today. "Watch the incredible HD picture, not the trash at the top of the screen."

Black bars are easier to ignore than dancing white lights.
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