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Author Topic: Dolby CP750 front display "washed out" Jay Glaus Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Pittsburgh, PA USA Registered: Dec 2010 posted 05-11-2013 01:25 PM                        Don't know if anyone else has experienced this, or if this is normal, but I got Dolby CP750's for 2 of our screens which switched to digital. The front display occasionally gets so dim you can't hardly read it. Its almost like the back light stays on but the text gets so dim the screen looks washed out. If you go into the menu for instance and go to the contrast setting, the second you touch it, the text goes right back up to full brightness instantly. What made me think, is for like the first two weeks this didn't happen. It just started, and they both do it at random times. Sometimes they power up "washed out", and other times they become "washed out" after time. I almost thought it was a power saving thing, but like I said, this didn't happen when they were put in, and our tech said he never saw them do that and to his knowledge there was no power saving thing in the front display. I took a picture when it was fine and when it was "washed out". The "washed out" picture actually looks better than it looks in person. In person, it looks way dimmer. Is this normal?  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-11-2013 02:55 PM                     Press the menu button several times, you'll end up to a couple of menu where you can set the contrast and brightness of the LCD. Set it where it looks best.  |  IP: Logged Jay Glaus Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Pittsburgh, PA USA Registered: Dec 2010 posted 05-11-2013 03:30 PM                        Yeah I've done that, it looks fine when I set it, then it dims. When I go back in to set it when it is dim, as soon as I move the contrast up or down by just one, it like wakes it back up instantly. That's why I thought it was like a power saver thing like when the screen dims on your laptop and you move the mouse and it comes back up to full. I don't know.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-11-2013 03:42 PM                     My apologies, I did not read the message carefully. Never heard that. Silly question, do you save the setting with "V" when you finish? Also, make sure you are on the latest FW 1.2.8.3  |  IP: Logged Stefan Vogels Film Handler Posts: 48 From: Aarle-Rixtel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands Registered: Jan 2010 posted 05-11-2013 03:50 PM                     I have seen this issue before on some units. If you open up the unit than there's a small cable running towards it. You can reseat it and that often resolves the issue. If not than you propably need to have the unit replaced.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 05-11-2013 03:57 PM                     I second what Stefan said. I had a couple of DTS XD-10's where the same thing started happening on the front panel display. Backlight stayed on, but text became washed out. Opening up the unit & re-seating all the cables between the front panel display and motherboard solved the problem on both units.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-11-2013 05:55 PM                     I can confirm that this happens on some units.  |  IP: Logged Jay Glaus Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Pittsburgh, PA USA Registered: Dec 2010 posted 05-11-2013 10:14 PM                        Thanks guys! I'll give the reseating thing a try. I'm not too worried because I believe it's simply cosmetic, unless anyone has seen a unit die from this, but I doubt it?  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-12-2013 05:17 AM                     I saw units with the washed out display but to be honest I thought someone had messed with them! If the unit is under warranty I'd have it replaced anyway. Swapping the unit - including the settings - is a 5 minute job. Maybe it's just a cosmetic issue, or maybe one day your LCD will definitely die!  |  IP: Logged Jay Glaus Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Pittsburgh, PA USA Registered: Dec 2010 posted 05-12-2013 01:18 PM                        Thanks, if the reseating doesn't work and it still gets washed out I may check and see what I can find out about the warranty.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 08-04-2013 04:38 PM                     Any reactions from Dolby regarding this issue? Seems there are quite a few CP750 hit by this issue. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 08-04-2013 04:52 PM                     Indeed, and I am surprised they do not come up with something to fix what I call the Christmas Tree effect - when the unit LEDs are flashing like a Christmas tree! A reboot always fix it though.  |  IP: Logged

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