Dvd Recorder Problem...black Dots On Tv Screen:-(

POPART_3

Hi,
I have just started to experience a distorted picture when using the TV and DVD recorder.( lots of black spots, almost like dotted contours, which seem to move around the people on screen, particularly where there are shadows etc.
No connections have been altered, but when wanting to record I select L2 on my dvd handset, then use the freeview control to select the channel to watch/record multiple and the black dots surround the images on screen. If I record a programme, it looks as though these dots are being recorded too, but on taking the disc out and inserting it in another player, the picture is perfect on that which has been recorded, but playing it back on the recorder the dots are still there.
Has anyone got any clues as to how I may solve this?
Thanks

Cliff_top

Seems like the disc is recorded ok, so problem is either the DVDs output graphic processor or (if a flat TV) the TVs handling of digital data.

Does a normal DVD film play ok? If not then you've a fault... if yes then below may be the answer


Is it a fault or just to be expected?
don't forget a Freeview picture isn't that good especially when taken from digital in the FV box-analogue scart-digital in the DVDr to analogue scart again to digital in a flat tv... all that conversion end up with 'artifacts' around anything that moves All this wonderful HDready stuff means Jack s... since 95% of all the programmes are just standard def. So is it actually a fault or are you being a bit critical?

POPART_3

Hi and thx 4 reply. I have just tried a prerecorded DVD and the black spots are still there contouring the faces on screen particularly where there's contrast between light and dark in, for example, a face..... its as though the features are being traced ! When in the L2 mode on the dvd all the selected channels show these spots, but if i record and play in another player, the playback of the recording is fine. The Tv is not a flat screen/plasm btw.
Thx again,

Cliff_top wrote: »

Seems like the disc is recorded ok, so problem is either the DVDs output graphic processor or (if a flat TV) the TVs handling of digital data.

Does a normal DVD film play ok? If not then you've a fault... if yes then below may be the answer


Is it a fault or just to be expected?
don't forget a Freeview picture isn't that good especially when taken from digital in the FV box-analogue scart-digital in the DVDr to analogue scart again to digital in a flat tv... all that conversion end up with 'artifacts' around anything that moves All this wonderful HDready stuff means Jack s... since 95% of all the programmes are just standard def. So is it actually a fault or are you being a bit critical?

Cliff_top

Does sound like the DVDrec is faulty.

Just check too that the sharpness isn't right up on the tv as this is meant to over emphasize the light-dark or vice versa transitions. Turning it down can help without actually un sharpening the pic too much.