is this some sort of copy protection?

[jonahfish7]

I just bought the Sony 34 inch widescreen hdtv and hooked it up to brighthouse's cable box through a HDMI/DVI cable. On regular channels I got some sort of red shifted picture. When I connected the tv through the component cables everything worked fine. What's up?

[mfabien]

Using your TV's Picture menu, make appropriate adjustments to Contrast, Brightness, Sharpness, Tone and Color. As a starter, see what the settings are for your Component input and try them out for your DVI (or HDMI) input.

[oman321]

Sometimes the HDMI cable may not support 480I. On your regular stations that might be your default or if you have MOTO box it is what your 4:3 override is set to. I used a HDMI adapter with a DVI cable. The package stated that the HDMI adapter handled 480P, 720P & 1080I. When connected and set to 480I people had a blue tint and colors were off in general. My set has color correction and that would fix it but you can also change your stb setting.

If you have the MOTO you can switch 4:3 override to 480P (with STB powered off press menu). Use arrow keys to move and ok to select. Good luck.

[Tryton]

I just bought the Sony 34 inch widescreen hdtv and hooked it up to brighthouse's cable box through a HDMI/DVI cable. On regular channels I got some sort of red shifted picture. When I connected the tv through the component cables everything worked fine. What's up?


which box do you have? The only box that works it the SA 8300, and we still tell customers that its "Unsupported". Any other box the dvi port is non functional. Hope this helps. Tryton

[tonelocdog]

Actually, the dvi output on the pace hd box that i have works, although it not hooked up via dvi to dvi. I have dvi to hdmi cable, and hooked it up that way, and did a connection and it works, sd channels are displayed 480p, because digital tv's can't accept for 480i, although i heard on some of them they can, talking about hdmi and dvi connections. And the hd channels get up converted, thru pass thru, or aut dvi/hdmi, in the settings menu.

[57U]

480i goes through a digital cable to a digital TV just fine, if it's a digital channel, or has been encoded digitally and recorded onto the HDD of a STB.

However, if you're tuned to an analogue channel "live", that analogue signal won't go through a digital cable. Also some HDTVs won't accept it, but that's not the STB or the cable's fault.

[TheAntMan]

no it's not a copyright issue. Tune/tweak you settings on your dvi/hdmi input. I would try that first.

[oman321]

I doubt that its the color settings ANT cause it's only the regular channels that do the redshift. Similar to my Panny does a blue shift when connected HDMI and signal is set to 480I on regular channels. Change signal to 480P and all is well. By regular channels I am assuming that means SD channels. HD does and would look fine.

[tonelocdog]

also, the picture could out of sync trying to enable dvi/hdmi with an unsupported resolution, which some times causes the picture to appear, and then disappear, then the copyright message would pop up, showing, that the format (resolution is not supported).