It'll be the HDCP that's causing the trouble. It's copyright protection rubbish and the box has to handshake (test the connection to the screen) to make sure it's connected to a legitimate device.
It's an absolute nightmare and causes nothing but trouble and does nothing as far as copy protection goes, it just frustrates.
Humax haven't helped as they've tried to be clever and do everything automaticaly so you can't actually tell the box what format you want, you have to let the box automatically handshake, work out what formats it thinks the device/screen/tv is capable of and then you have a choice of formats that you can toggle through using the remote control 'vformat' button.
Other manufacturers will allow you to set the format/resolution in a menu and then it's fixed which can help with some older screens/displays, Humax don't do this which is a shame.
Make sure you have a good connection between the box and the tv and once it's connected toggle through the formats available using the vformat button, you may have to wait a few seconds each time for the handshaking to catch up. Ideally you want the format as high as possible (1080), if you can only get 576 or 720 then your screen may not be capable or you may want to check with the manufacturer of the screen to see if there is any software/firmware updates for it or known issues
| Sun 8 Apr 2012 10:41:10
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