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    Color flicker on HDMI

    I have a fairly old Toshiba TV (don't know the model number). It doesn't have built-in digital tuner so must be old. It's connected to a HD cable box via HDMI, and it copes well with 1080p HD.

    In recent months it's started doing an annoying flicker on the HDMI input, and it's gradually getting worse. There's no noise or anything on the picture, but it's like the colors are being inverted for a few frames. Reds turn into blues and vice versa, for example.

    It's very random when it occurs; not 2 frames every second or anything like that. Tried both HDMI ports and power-cycling both the cable box and the TV, and the problem persists. The worst I've seen it is when it did two whole seconds of inverted colors before flipping back to normal.

    Not sure if it's the lead as I don't have a spare HDMI lead to test it with - nor do I have any other HDMI sources in that room. Do you think it could be the lead, or the TV, or the cable box?
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    Re: Color flicker on HDMI

    It is possibly the lead, I have experienced some issues with HDMI leads flexing at the connector causing similar symptoms.
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      Re: Color flicker on HDMI

      Not sure if this is same issue but I got a HDMI cable with my cable box free. It must have been cheap because it would do the same thing but more like a bad signal. When I replaced it with a higher quality cable it worked fine. Just to be sure it was the cheapo I put it on my other tv and did the same thing.

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        Re: Color flicker on HDMI

        I've been using the 99p store 1m HDMI cables with great success, though they are definitely minimally shielded because flicking a lightswitch on leads to momentary interruption of the signal. Can't expect much for less than a quid, though.
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