hooking up Oppo dvd to HD montor and getting Colored snow

[fox mulder]

i'm trying to hook up a Oppo DV-970HD upconverting dvd player with a hdmi port to a HANNSG JW199D montor with a dvi port to try to get some HD action going. i connect it together with a phillips hdmi to dvi cable i got at walmart. when i which the dvd player to 720p at 60hz i get picture for a second then colored snow. i can't figure out why that is? i don't want to spend money on another cable. anyone ever encountered "colored snow"?

[Vrock]

i'm trying to hook up a Oppo DV-970HD upconverting dvd player with a hdmi port to a HANNSG JW199D montor with a dvi port to try to get some HD action going. i connect it together with a phillips hdmi to dvi cable i got at walmart. when i which the dvd player to 720p at 60hz i get picture for a second then colored snow. i can't figure out why that is? i don't want to spend money on another cable. anyone ever encountered "colored snow"?

Is your monitor HDCP compliant? What happens when you try to play the DVD at 480p?

[fox mulder]

it may not be?! the same thing happens when i which it to 480p.

[Vrock]

it may not be?! the same thing happens when i which it to 480p.

If it happens at 480p I don't think it's an HDCP issue. It may be that your monitor just doesn't like the Oppo. Can you try another display and see if it works on that?

[fox mulder]

could it be the cable?

[Vrock]

could it be the cable?

I guess it could, but I think it's unlikely. It's not like it's a long run or anything, and unless there's an obvious break in the cable somewhere we're just talking about 1s and 0s moving along a piece of flexible metal.

[cass]

http://www.oppodigital.com/dv970hd/dv970hd_spec.html

According to the specs it only does anything out over hdmi with hdcp.

And component out is limited to 480I/480P.

Thats the way I read it...

Digital Video: HDMI with HDCP (NTSC 480i/480p/720p/1080i, PAL 576i/576p/720p/1080i)
Component Video**: Y/Pb/Pr, NTSC 480i/480p/720p/1080i, PAL 576i/576p/720p/1080i. Component output for CSS-encrypted DVD discs (almost all commercially pressed DVD discs) is limited to 480i/480p only.