White line near top of picture?

[bnewt]

What causes this? How can it be corrected? Equipment = 622 & Pioneer Elite plasma connected via hdmi from Denon receiver.

 

[rcdallas]

Try hooking up with componet cables and see if the problem is still there.

 

[Smith P.]

check overscan settings on the Elite TV

 

[gadgtfreek]

I some times get them if I am on a 720p station and have the 622 set to 1080i. I always change the resolution with the channel though.

 

[Cyclone]

With SD programming, the Closed captions data is kept on the top line or two. Usually a TV has its Overscan set in a way that these top lines are usually off the screen and out of view. In other words, you aren't meant to see them. That worked fine in the CRT days, but with Plasmas we seem to be able to seem them more easily.

Just go to your Plama's set up and see if you can stretch the height of your picture until the lines are out of view. Otherwise, just learn to accept them.

 

[Smith P.]

Not only Line27 CC, but could be other data, like time counter.

 

[Jim5506]

My Sony CRT projector has a white line both along the top and the left side of my NBC station. They are both solid lines, not the Morse code looking lines from captioning. On a regular set this would be hidden by overscan correction - no biggie.