flash to white, loss of signal

Goodshape

Bit of an annoyance here, wondering if it happens to anyone else..

I'm on NTL digital and every now and again during a quick-edited action sequence, or similar, the signal cuts out for a split second during the cuts. By 'cutting out' I mean the sound goes and the channel number appears on screen.

Like I said, this usually happens during quick-edited sequences, when there might be a quick flash of white to signal a flashback or something.

This sort of thing happen to anyone else? Trying to determine is it the NTL or the TV.

mike65

While I havnt had those symptoms, I've also noticed how fast-moving sequences ie football close ups of a tackle can cause "blockiness" and a momentary pause, its like movement = extra data which the NTL system can't keep up with.

Mike.

The tax man

When you say the channel number appears on the screen do you mean a channel number from the TV or the purple graphics from the NTL box??

Goodshape

TV channel number.

Sounds similar to what mike65 describes actually, although rather than fast paced action scenes leading to too much information, I was thinking that the frame or two of black or white between some action cuts (like explosions or stylized flashbacks, etc.) would be such a small amount of information that the TV thinks it's lost signal.

Reason being that it's a digital transmission so, afaik, a full screen of white is essentially just 1 pixel worth of data.

Don't really know what sort of a point I'm trying to make actually... I doubt it's anything that can be 'fixed', just that it annoys me from time to time.

The tax man

Hmmmm...
You should post your original post in the "Home Entertainment" thread.
Most TV related problems are generally answered there.I get the idea there's a few TV techy people knocking around.
I have come across TV's that act up when the picture shows alot of white and it is a fault that can occur with crt TV's. Never came across it with LCDs+plasmas.