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Posted by dan bailey on 02/04/07 00:24
Dunno if this is the best place to ask this or not, but here goes ...
I'm trying to figure out why my Toshiba SD-3980 always experiences
intermittent signal interference, in the form of frequent audio & video
dropouts & snow, whenever I try to play a Universal Studios disc. Same thing
happens, I found last week, with CBS discs. It also happens with LionsGate
discs made before 2005 or so (more recently ones are fine), & a couple of
other manufacturers that I can't remember because I've tried very few of
their discs.
It does *not* happen with the JVC player I gave my gf for Xmas a couple of
years ago.
Might the problem lie, somehow, with my Philips RF modulator?
I first encountered the problem when I tried to play Universal & LionsGate
discs on my first player, an old Daewoo 3000N, which I ran through my VCR
before I'd ever even heard of an RF modulator. (I know you're not supposed
to do that, but I don't recall ever experiencing any of the problems that
it's supposed to cause.) And when I said the heck with it & stuck a CBS disc
on the Daewoo last week, lo & behold it played fine all the way through.
Of course, *now* all I can get when I try to use the Daewoo is blue screen
with a very, very faint trace of picture, though the audio is fine (which
means that the dropout described above isn't happening on this machine) ...
& the picture *does* come through fine if I run the Daewoo through the RF
modulator rather than the VCR -- though the dropout occurs.
I doubt that it matters, though for what it's worth I don't have cable, so
that isn't any sort of setup option.
Any ideas on how to address either or both problems?
Thanks much --
Dan
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