2 problems: hum and progressive scan
Posted by: Ken Forton on 10 February 2009
I just bought an Arcam DV135 second hand. I am experiencing two problems.
One, when I try to play a CD while the player is also hooked up to my television, it emits a VERY loud hum. It hums when I use the HDMI connection and when I use the component video connections. It's as if my Nait 2 can't stand the idea of being connected to a television.
Two, I have a nice, small 16:9 Sony HDTV. The Arcam reads progressive scan on the display, but it is outputting a 4:3 picture and it looks like it is being compressed on the left and the right. Movies play in proper perspective on my XBOX, so I don't think it's the TV. I have checked the settings on the Arcam and I'm pretty sure I have the proper HDMI and perspective settings.
Any ideas?
One, when I try to play a CD while the player is also hooked up to my television, it emits a VERY loud hum. It hums when I use the HDMI connection and when I use the component video connections. It's as if my Nait 2 can't stand the idea of being connected to a television.
Two, I have a nice, small 16:9 Sony HDTV. The Arcam reads progressive scan on the display, but it is outputting a 4:3 picture and it looks like it is being compressed on the left and the right. Movies play in proper perspective on my XBOX, so I don't think it's the TV. I have checked the settings on the Arcam and I'm pretty sure I have the proper HDMI and perspective settings.
Any ideas?
quote:Originally posted by Ken Forton:
Any ideas?
About hum: try connecting the "video" hardware (tv and dvd player) and "audio" hardware to different wall sockets. It worked for me, but I understand this must be experimented on a case by case basis...!
About 4:3 ratio: it looks like your Arcam player forces the aspect ratio to 4:3 (obviously
). I guess there's an option in a menu where you can set your TV native aspect ratio so that the player outputs a properly dimensionned image.