I partially plug in an HDMI cable into my Toshiba 32AV502U LCD TV (has been used for 10,000 hours) and see snow on the screen with an otherwise stable picture, and I mean the kind of snow typical of weak off-the-air analog broadcast TV signals from an antenna, complete with the snow moving around instead of being stationary, only the picture isn't nearly as white. The picture clears up after I push in the plug harder and wiggle around the connector a bit. The same thing happened a couple of times when I tried another HDMI cable (generic but a different make) and the TV's other HDMI input and also with a different Toshiba (26AV502R, slightly newer series, under 1,000 hours use). I think the snow consisted of white dots, but I don't remember what the sound was like in any of these cases.
I couldn't reproduce the snow with the composite, RGB, or VGA inputs, and I don't have a source for hi-color (or whatever those other analog inputs with 3 coax cables is called).
Aren't weak digital signals into HDMI supposed to make the picture break up into little squares or horizontal bars or show still images, rather than produce snow?
I couldn't reproduce the snow with the composite, RGB, or VGA inputs, and I don't have a source for hi-color (or whatever those other analog inputs with 3 coax cables is called).
Aren't weak digital signals into HDMI supposed to make the picture break up into little squares or horizontal bars or show still images, rather than produce snow?
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