I hope someone can shed a little light on this - I have a call into DVDO support, but haven't heard from them yet.

I currently have a DVDO iScan Ultra that I use to connect a standard def DVD player and some video game consoles to. These are routed to my television via the VGA-to-component adapter cable. (VGA-out in component mode on the iScan)

My DVD player is capable of passing BTB signal in 480i over component as confirmed by "HomeTheaterHiFi" and by calibration discs. It does however appear quite dark on my television, and I have had to make adjustments to the TV settings that are quite a bit different from the HD signals my cable box sends (HD runs direct to the TV via DVI).

Anyway, I recently attached a Nintendo Wii to the iScan using composite. The balance and range of tones was just fine. After upgrading the interconnect to component 480i, I now have what appears to be a lack of BTB signal. This impacts certain games, making some things invisible. Nothing else has changed... simply the interconnect that is used, and the fact that the signal isn't being RF modulated before it hits the iScan.


Can anyone help me figure out what's going on here? I had previously assumed that the darker appearance of my DVD player was due to how the TV synced to 480p, but it was syncing to 480p when the Wii was feeding the iScan via composite so that can't be the whole story here. Do I just have two "dark" sources via component, or is there something that I'm missing on the iScan? Making adjustments to the video settings on the DVDO unit does not provide the necessary changes.