I have a 60" XBR2, bought June of 2007. About six months ago, I noticed that when I have the DRC on (to either mode), I get a blue ghosting/snow effect on the picture. This came on around the time I happened to switch to cable from satellite, so I naively chalked it up to something with the input stream and just kept the DRC set to off.

But I've noticed recently whenever I have a 1080p HDMI connection (for example, from my PS3) the whites turn into a grey with a flickering to them. This happens when I connect my laptop to the TV as well, and it's more distracting there. At first it wasn't consistent (i.e it happened sometimes, but not all the time), but now it's consistent. If I change my PS3 settings to use 1080i over HDMI, the problem does NOT occur.

I've played around with the settings, tried different cables and different inputs in the TV, but it seems to be consistent. I'd like to hook my laptop up via HDMI to watch movies, but this particular issue is so distracting that it's unwatchable.

Any ideas? It doesn't sound like any optical block problem that I've seen posted, but if it is a problem I hope it's related to that so it could possibly be fixed under warranty.

I've uploaded a Youtube video, but the uploaded quality makes it such that it might be difficult to see (prepend with youtube.com .. I can't seem to post URLs yet):

watch?v=9spojeNB0jw

Is there any adjustments or resets in DRC menu? If you reset DRC settings does it go away? Maybe adjusted too far one direction?

I doubt it would be the optical block. You really need to get a sony auth tech out to diagnose. Could be B2, or AU, or maybe QM.

Is there any adjustments or resets in DRC menu? If you reset DRC settings does it go away? Maybe adjusted too far one direction?

I doubt it would be the optical block. You really need to get a sony auth tech out to diagnose. Could be B2, or AU, or maybe QM.
The DRC setting is available on the TV for any mode other than 1080p. Apparently it's not an option when I have a 1080p source, since it doesn't show up as an available option if there is one.

Ok so the "DRC blue ghosting" is a different problem than the "1080p whites turn into a grey with a flickering" problem. The linked video is the 1080p problem?

Same recommendation applies: ...I doubt it would be the optical block. You really need to get a sony auth tech out to diagnose. Could be B2, or AU, or maybe QM.

I would say the video processing board is going faulty.

as you really can't tell from that video, is the entire screen flickering between bright and a dimmer picture?