Posted by Bill's News on 10/16/06 02:09

BD wrote:
> Hey, all.
>
> I have the Oppo OPDV971H. I am using a Toshiba 52" widescreen TV.
>
> I have the player connected to the TV via a DVI-HDMI cable -
> actually
> it's a DVI-DVI cable with a DVI-HDMI coupler on the end I connect to
> the player.
>
> So everything works a treat. But I notice that when I'm playing
> disks
> - and it seems to be with DVDs and AVIs that I've burned - there is
> a
> *very* faint dark line running across the screen, almost exactly
> halfway up. It's maybe 3mm thick. It's only noticeable if the image
> is
> a solid color.
>
> I switched the cabling to component, and I see no such line.
>
> I'm not sure what to make of this. I thought I'd see if anyone else
> out there with the Oppo player can see this when they use DVI.
>
> The cable I bought was admittedly fairly cheap, but I'm reluctant to
> drop the $40 or so it would take to get a really good DVI cable just
> to find out that the issue is in my player, or in my TV.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> BD

I have no issues with the OPPO player on my Westinghouse LCD TV,
however my Toshiba P35 laptop has developed vertical "lines" perhaps 1
or 2 pixels wide - originally one at the left 1/8 of the 17" WXVGA
screen, weeks later a second at about 40% from left. This will be the
second time to get the screen replaced for this reason in 2 years. My
previous Toshiba laptop, circa 1993/4, exhibited a similar problem at
about one year of age.

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