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DVD picture and display is fine but when I switch to TV (from comcast motorola box) there is a green stripe on the far right of the screen from top to bottom. It is there no matter the broadcast feed, SD or HDTV and in either 4:3 or 16:9 ratio. This is coming from an Epson 6500UB via HDMI to Onkyo 886 pre/pro. Any ideas what adjustment needs to be done to eliminate this green stripe?


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Just so you know, nothing's broken or wrong with your equipment. It's that your cable signal is transmitting less than the full 1920x1080 pixels your display is capable of displaying and the green is the absent information. Yet another reason why Blu Ray should never die. Anyway, if you can't tolerate the stripe there are a few options:


1) If your projector has a "zoom" feature, you can try using one of those to trim the edge of your image so you don't see the line. Though I think sometimes this feature takes too much out of a picture. And it can be used for regular TV if you must, but is unnecessary with DVD or BR.


2) If your projector has a feature called "overscan", and it probably does, you can turn it on and it will trim about 2.5% of the boarder of your picture off and zoom the remaining portion to fill your screen. This is okay to use for TV, but should be turned off for DVD and BR as it causes some picture degradation in a true, full 1080P signal.


3) If your projector has a feature called "blanking", you can try using that. Essentially, blanking will black out the edges of your screen, rather than zoom in the image. It's like drawing a curtain in over the image. Not all projectors have it, but it's an interesting feature. If you do have it, it should allow you to "blank" all four sides of the screen independently, so you only have to use it on the side with the green stripe to make it go away. As before, you should turn this off when watching DVD or BR.


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I've had the same Comcast Motorola 6412 for going on 4 years now... We always use dot-by-dot display mode (PJ or Plasma)... In our case, the latest firmware uploaded by Comcast to the 6412 (sometime last year) caused this green line issue for us when using HDMI from the box as prior to that we did not have this issue.


I've compared the HDMI output against component out from the box and it is indeed the case that the rightmost X (not sure how wide but it is several pixels wide) pixels of valid video data is being replaced with green when using HDMI out.


Fortunately, we also have a Tivo S3 which works just fine using the same cable feed.
 
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