PS3 Video Noise with BD Movies

the movies you are watching are bad transfers.

Here is the link to the Tier system that rates how good Blu Ray transfers are:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=753726

Is your sharpness or Edge Enhancement turned up? Sometimes that causes alot of noise in HD.

I have the same set as you can Last Samurai has that problem in HD also.

Since you mentioned its really noticable on solid colors, have you considered that what you are seeing is SSE (Silk Screen Effect)? I also have the 5087 and the SSE is bad, very distracting. You have to train yourself not to see it.

it may just be the movies u are watching...i used to own the sammy BD player as well as the Panasonic...i returned them both due to the fact there just arent very many extremely impressive titles on BD...granted there area some but not nearly as many as HD-dvd in my opinion

Ice Age the Meltdown is highly recommended, and not just by me

Visually it is stunning.

The free version of Talladega just looked like upconverted dvd to me, I was disappointed.

You might want to do some tuning, sounds like you are having trouble with your blacks, you can try THX tuning (available on lots of dvds), or sony BDs have a 7662(or something like that) hidden feature that is for tuning.

First time I really noticed a problem with blacks on my lcd was watching some Bonnie Raitt thing on tv (hd of course), basically she was wearing a very black shirt and it looked like it was moving the whole time, I turned down the brightness until it was all the same black and haven't seen the problem since.

try kingdom of heaven, or silent hill, both movies with many dark areas that had no noise on my setup.

please not that silent hill, seemingly to me, has grain added in most daylight scenes, but check out the dark "hell world" scenes, no more grain/noise and very very clear. Some other think this is due to a bad transfer, but because the dark scenes lack it, u'm under the impression it was intentional.

KOH is just wonderful, albeit a bit long and slow. Make sure you preped for a long movie with little action toward the end.

my setup is a 70"XBR2 and the PS3 over HDMI

Try Kingdom of Heaven, Ice Age 2, Tears of the Sun.

I have the 5088 and the same problem. Of course you linked to my thread.

My problem still exists.

I don't think it's the cables:

-I've tried Sony Official HDMI, high end Phillips HDMI and a cheapo Chinese HDMI. All produced the same results.

-I also tested via component to the same problem.

I don't think it's the TV.

-I hooked my PS3 into my Sony Bravia LCD @ 1080i and got the same noise results as I did on my DLP.

I don't think it's all the transfer to blame:

-Mission Impossible 3 produces tons of noise and is almost unwatchable, but reviews place it very high on visuals.

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/miss...ssibleiii.html

From that review there can be NO WAY I'm seeing MI3 like he is.

SO what on Earth is it?!

-Maybe I got a bad disk? My gf is going to exchange it (MI3) to see if maybe it was a flaw.

-Maybe the Blu Diode is bad? Games look wonderful... But maybe the freq to read movies is bad?

-When downloading trailers from the PSStore, Black Hawk Down looks very nice.. House of Flying Daggers looks like trash. Kinda lends to the transfer idea but still...

-I have the X360 HD DVD drive and everything looks great on it. Blu should compare to that but it does not. Something has to be wrong.

I'm excited to hear what you think of KOH. Xmas tapped my extra cash but I'm going to try and test Black Hawk Down this weekend.

Did you get KOH yet?

Remember there will always be SOME inherent film grain in the movie. Make sure you are not confusing that with NOISE.

MI:3 on HD-DVD pretty much looks flawless. I can't believe the BD version looks worse.

^^

Obviously the brighter the picture is the more grain you will notice in night/dark scenes. That is why calibrating your display is so important.

I think as time goes by, you will start to see better and better transfers.

Hello, My PS3 has the same problem. I also have a Comcast digital cable box, it seams if you disconnect the cable box from the TV (All audio and video cables) the noise and picture imperfections go away. I don't know why the cable box and the PS3 don't interact well with each other? Please let me know if this works for you!

Ok I figured it out. Apparently if you plug a 3-prong-to-2-prong adapter, eliminating the ground plug it gets rid of both interferences. It was that easy.

I think the problem I was experiencing is called a Ground Loop, one of the ways to fix it is to eliminate the ground plug. This worked for me however it is not the correct way to fix it. I also am no electrician so I don't know what effect this will have on my PS3 in the long run. I will buy some shielded component cables in about a week to see if this fixes the problem.

I know it is not the PS3 because I have returned it and gotten a new one and it does the same thing. The odd part is that I only get the interferences when I have my Comcast digital cable box connected.

This web page may help you out:

audioholics.comm

Search for Ground Loop

Hope this helps you out!

Why come you guys have not checked out any of the Power Conditioners from Belkin or Monster?

I have a Monster one and it does clean up the video on everything that is plugged into it.

Belkin PureAV

MonsterPower

Ground loops do not affect digital video. Power conditioners will do nothing for digital video.

Chances are that the noise is just an artifact of your TV (edge enhancement, sharpness that you can't turn off, etc...) or a bad transfer of the film to BD.