Video Asylum

Posted by jedirun (A) on March 23, 2005 at 09:31:41

I have had a my projector and DVD player for several months, but moved recently. I set them up in a new room where I am sitting closer to the screen and I noticed a problem.

In dark areas of the picture and even in the Pioneer welcome screen the color is not uniform. It is black with white flickering pixels throughout the field. Instead of all the pixels being dark grey, a few are white and the rest are black and they move.

I can get the black areas of the screen to be black by turning the brightness down on the projector, but the problem persists in darker areas of the picture. The pixels continue to move in the darker areas of the picture even when the image is paused.
Adjusting the brighness and contrast on the DVD player has no effect on this problem.

The problem does not seem to be present with my HDTV cable box which is also a Pioneer.

Is this a problem with the projector, or a problem with the DVD player?

Is my DLP projector not capable of showing dark colors uniformly without showing flickering pixels of white in a black background?

I know that this player does not pass blacker than black signals in progressive mode, does this have something to do with that?

Is this a calibration issue? I have tried recalibrating the display with digital video essentials and have not solved the prohlem. It is difficult to calibrate the black level since the DVD will not pass blacker than black signals.

Am I just sitting to close to the screen and just seeing the differences between HDTV and DVD?

Any help would be appreciated.