[Sneaker]

Hi Guys,

Like the title says, i experience occasionally a white flash on screen and all sound is gone for like 3~4 seconds and then everything is back to normal.

It happens mostly when playing video but sometimes during a game as well.

Anyone experienced this before, and is there any cure for it?

Thanks in advance!

[Mr.Dutch]

fat or slimp ps3?

the fat suffers more from weird graphics issues as far as i know.

[Sneaker]

It is a 40GB fat model, it was bought with Resistance 2 at that time and featured the Dual Shock 3 controller

[baargle]

Almost certainly your HDMI cable is too cheap and crap.
Initially try just swapping the ends round, if that works forget about it, if not get a reasonable 1.4 "high speed" cable. They can still be very cheap but the "high speed" bit is quite important and means the cable will stand up to a certain amount of interference generally speaking.

If that doesn't work, then it's likely the HDMI port on your PS3.

90% likely the first thing though so don't panic.

The reason it happens more during video is because you're prolly talking about blurays which are 1080p, more information to send through the cable than games which very rarely run at that resolution and thus don't need as much interference to go over the threshold of visible problems.

[Sneaker]

Thanks so much for that information, i will purchase and try the high speed cable you mentioned.

Funny thing though, i recall reading a review about HDMI cables and they stated the cheaper ones were just as good as the more expensive ones.

This one came from a discounter though so maybe they used cheaper wiring?
Or like they to do with CAT5 cables sometimes, they make one line out of a cheaper metal which doesn't really conduct the signal as well as copper?

Will post back if i experience this issue still or not with the other cable.

[TizzyT]

Yes get a better HDMI cable.
I've been there before and a new cable resolved it

[Sneaker]

Thanks peeps, bought a better 1.4 high speed HDMI cable and surely enough it fixed the problem!

Strangest thing though i googled on this and didn't find any topics regarding this strange behaviour?

[baargle]

Originally Posted by Sneaker Thanks peeps, bought a better 1.4 high speed HDMI cable and surely enough it fixed the problem! Strangest thing though i googled on this and didn't find any topics regarding this strange behaviour?

It just depends on HDMI cables, how much interference is in the air, what equipment is connected nearby, different devices have different tolerance levels.

For example a cheapo HDMI cable may function fine with some devices but give problems like the one you describe on others. If you pay a little more for one, then you reduce the likelyhood of those problems on any device.

Paying £3-4 for a HDMI cable is normally a bad idea, spending £100 is also a bad idea, but spending £15-£20 on one can actually save you a lot of hassle later on when something goes wrong and you can't seem to pinpoint what's causing it, or indeed if you have a lot of cables connected to an AV amp -> 1 connected to a display, exactly which cable is the faulty one!? Pulling out all those cables from a nicely setup hidden "mess" can be a nightmare.

For long HDMI cables of 5M plus, it's crucial to spend a reasonable amount on one, for very long 15M cables you would (imo) be an idiot to even consider a cheap cable. It WILL cause problems at some point, be it a fussy device, a person that's moved in next door with a Microwave close to your adjoining wall or just some random crap.

Don't believe everything you read from morons on the internet about "HDMI being digital so it either works or it doesn't".

At the end of the day it's all about interference, good cables can take it, bad cables can't.

The sentence about digital cables does have some truth in it, in so far as that when you DO get a picture that isn't obviously corrupted, you will be getting the same quality of picture as you would with a £1 cable and a £1000 cable. This is different from analogue cables, where a bad -> good cable will sound progressively better, and the material the cable is made from (not the casing) will change the feel of the sound. Copper for example sounds mellow/relaxed, silver accentuates treble, neither are good/bad but one can sound better than the other depending on the type of sound your amplifier outputs to begin with, the quality of the DAC in the processor etc etc.

God I'm boring myself to sleep here and have rambled wayyyy off topic