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I am having ghosts (shadows) on my tv? It is hooked up directly to a cable box. We have unhooked all boxes to try to eliminate the problem. Ghosts/shadows remain when everything is unhooked. Help!
If you can, try hooking up the tv to a different cable line in the house or bring a different tv into the room where the bad picture is [ you may have a bad connection or wire ] if this doesn't help, try rabbit ear antennas just to get a picture. if you still have ghosts on your tv, the problem is with your tv.if the picture is fine, there maybe a problem with your cable service.
hope this helps
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You may have to reset the TV to Factory specs. In some cases resetting the TV to original settings will eliminate blotches, lines, and ghosts that occur over time. Check you manual for directions.
This is normally caused by bad grounds in the cabling. Check or replace the cable. Also check your manuals and be sure the cables don't have to be terminated How to Fix LCD Monitor Ghost images
Without knowing the actual ports on each of these devices, all I can suggest is that have you tried connecting your DVD to the Dish box (thru VCR scart connection at the back of the Dish box) and then the Dish box into your modulator (and then modulator into your tv.
I have a similar system set up but we have a Sky Digital box here, no idea if its the same as a Dish box but im assuming so.
I'm going to guess that these ghosts are of different colors too. This is most likely a convergence problem. Try resoldering the pins on the convergence ICs first. If that fails, replace them.
These ICs are large and black, attached to a heatsink. They will be marked STKxxx.
Keep us posted.
Dan
you have cable and the stations are still snowy? could be tuner do you have a box or directly hooked up to tv, try unhooking box if you have one and directly hook it up to tv if you havent already done so
Mrs. Hulme,
If you have another Tv in the house try hooking it up to the cable box to see if it experiences the same problem, eliminating the fact that it could be the Tv...
Ghosting and band interferrence that you're describing usually has to do with poor ground. If you're getting good analog signal and if another Tv has no problem hooked to that box it could have been poor ground in the tuner circuit of the Tv - but my first suspect would be that digital box...
Bill
slag,
Has the cable signal been branched off to another TV (or more) from the same feed? Ghosting and shadows are usually the result of bad impedance matches on those lines. Try connecting the prime TV directly to the cable box (or cable jack) output and note if there is any improvement. Make sure the cable itself is of the RG-6 type (not RG-59) and has no sharp bends or kinks. The center pin of the cable should be clean without corrosion. The RF IN jack on the TV should be checked to make sure the threads for the connector are clean and the plug should be attached firmly but not too tight. These steps should help solve this at least assuming the cable signal is good. [Checking it shows the "level" coming off the pole, not necessarily the quality of that level.] Hope this helps.
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