Heavy noise problem, Sceptre 37" 1080p - Toshiba HD-A35

Well I am very excited about my new HD-A35, but I can't enjoy it much because there is so much noise in the image. I am hoping someone can at least point me where to look for a solution.

It is hooked up via HDMI to the sceptre, I tried HDMI input select = noise, HDCP input is same exact thing, DVI input = the picture is almost all red, very messed up.

One odd thing is that watching 300 with the blue screen special feature enabled, I can't notice any noise at all in the blue screen part. Looking to the main video I can see all the tons of noise, especially on the pillars and peoples faces, like the stuff is literally vibrating is how bad it is.

Hopefully someone can help, I want to start enjoying my HD DVDs.
Just please don't say I have to buy a new TV lol.

No it's all the same, all hdmi. I have the video selection on 'up to 1080i'. Another fun fact is I can't even get it to go 1080p. If I change the selection to 1080p it still just keeps going at 1080i.

I mentioned 300 because I thought it was weird how the special feature part didn't display the noise (I'm pretty sure the people's faces in 300 looking like their skin cells are on vibrate mode is not intentional). On Planet Earth for example the sky has purple splotches that vibrate when the camera is still. And the noise is also very noticeable on the trees, it's a kind of shimmering/vibrating distortion(noise) is the best way I can describe it.

Tried all 3, auto at the moment. Tried 4 different HD DVDs now. I don't have any component connectors, just the hdmi.

Well it's not a poor TV is it? It's not top of the line but it's 1080p, 8ms, 1000:1 contrast ratio.

No dice on the trade!

I don't think I have, not sure where that is or whatever.

1. Well it doesn't have a DVI port on the TV persay, but clicking through the input channels there is a DVI selection, it is indeed hooked up with the one hdmi port.

2. I got hot fuzz. But yep it is noisey, everyone's faces and the backgrounds look very fuzzy (no pun intended)

3. My TV actually doesn't have that many selections it seems, I've messed with every setting I could in the menu (lamp, brightness, vivid color, blue, green, sharpness, etc.), none of it seems to affect the noise. I don't think advanced calibration would help, this is like a huge problem that is easily noticeable.

4. Yes, that's my kitten.

5. Yep that's what I got it on, I would prefer 1080p but I'll settle for 1080i, however I cannot settle for the intense image fuzziness.

Yea I tried with 'up to 720' as well. I read a review on the TV and they determined it is indeed true 1080p. My xbox 360 displays wonderfully set to 1920 x 1080 resolution over a vga cable, I'm assuming that's 1080p not 1080i.

That review is mean to my TV, I don't like that one bit.

But my xbox 360 looks good, the tv has to use it's video processor for that doesn't it?

Yea I originally had the xbox running over component until I bought the vga cable because I wanted 1080p and DVD upscaling (the tv doesn't do 1080p on component and the xbox won't upscale DVDs). The picture looked fine on games, DVDs looked like crap because they weren't upscaling, but I didn't notice this intense fuzziness/noise that I do now on the HDMI with the toshiba.

Here are some pics.

This is the setup screen, the tv channel is on HDCP and it is displaying 1080i.




This is Hot Fuzz, his face is noticeably fuzzy.



Here's a shot of 300 with the special feature enabled, notice the pillars.



Another 300 shot, again the main movie part looks snowy but the special feature looks ok.



This is near the beginning of Planet Earth, they are showing a sandy mountain range, the image is just virbrating with the distortion.



Planet Earth again, I think this is supposed to be the birds against a clear sunset sky, but the sky looks ugly.


I guess I could say everything looks snowy, like bad reception on those old analog tv sets. What you can't tell from the pictures is for example in 300 when I am watching a basically still shot, the pillars are actually moving (snowing), so I don't know what the digital grain is supposed to look like but I think it's worse.

I kind of suspected it was the TV, only problem is the TV cost me about 2.5 times more than the HD-A35.

This HD-A35 must be picky about only accepting the best. It will surely bankrupt me buying new TVs, receivers, and sound systems to please it.