Tom Neely
Auditioning
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2000
- Messages
- 9
I'm depressed.
Got my new 50h81 10 days ago and love it!
DVD looks awesome, Cable is much better than I expected but Directv is just plain disappointing.
I'm sure my problem can be fixed so I figured I'd start here to see if anyone of you guys can help. I'd love to get this taken care of by next Sunday for football and Band of Brothers!)
Here's the situation:
I have had my RCA dish hooked to my 35 inch Proscan in my family room for the last 5 years and have been very happy with the performance/picture. It is connected via R-59 coax.
Over the last six months, I have been finishing my basement into a home theater. I ran RG 6 coax during construction from the corner directly below the Proscan to the opposite corner where the new TV is now (it's about 75 feet).
Yesterday, I finally fished the coax from upstairs and connected it with a RCA amplifier/connector to the new coax in the basement.
I hooked up the satelite receiver and connected it to the TV with s-video.
There are very noticible scan lines that slowly move from from the bottom of the picture to the top. Trust me, they are bad. There is also a slight hum coming from the TV speakers when I connect the s-video cable. The lines get worse when I connect with composite or mess with the contrast and I tried two different s-video cables so I'm sure it's not the connections.
I suspected it was some kind of interference (electrical or otherwise) but then I spoke on the phone with a TV engineer at QVC (yes, the shopping network- my brother is a producer there.) The engineer said it sounds like my dish isn't grounded but I haven't touched the actual dish and the picture used to be great. Then he said it could be something as simple as the settings on the TV or receiver. He also said I should 'terminate' all open inputs on the back of the receiver.
I'm lost and I need help!
Anyone have any ideas/similar experiences?
Thanks,
Tom
Got my new 50h81 10 days ago and love it!
DVD looks awesome, Cable is much better than I expected but Directv is just plain disappointing.
I'm sure my problem can be fixed so I figured I'd start here to see if anyone of you guys can help. I'd love to get this taken care of by next Sunday for football and Band of Brothers!)
Here's the situation:
I have had my RCA dish hooked to my 35 inch Proscan in my family room for the last 5 years and have been very happy with the performance/picture. It is connected via R-59 coax.
Over the last six months, I have been finishing my basement into a home theater. I ran RG 6 coax during construction from the corner directly below the Proscan to the opposite corner where the new TV is now (it's about 75 feet).
Yesterday, I finally fished the coax from upstairs and connected it with a RCA amplifier/connector to the new coax in the basement.
I hooked up the satelite receiver and connected it to the TV with s-video.
There are very noticible scan lines that slowly move from from the bottom of the picture to the top. Trust me, they are bad. There is also a slight hum coming from the TV speakers when I connect the s-video cable. The lines get worse when I connect with composite or mess with the contrast and I tried two different s-video cables so I'm sure it's not the connections.
I suspected it was some kind of interference (electrical or otherwise) but then I spoke on the phone with a TV engineer at QVC (yes, the shopping network- my brother is a producer there.) The engineer said it sounds like my dish isn't grounded but I haven't touched the actual dish and the picture used to be great. Then he said it could be something as simple as the settings on the TV or receiver. He also said I should 'terminate' all open inputs on the back of the receiver.
I'm lost and I need help!
Anyone have any ideas/similar experiences?
Thanks,
Tom