Screen goes black once and while

[dishuser]

This is also happening to a friend of mine but he can't find CEC or SIMPLINK anywwhere....Would it be called anything else on a new 2022 Samsung tv?

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[squirtNcider]

Found it but turning that off made it flicker on and off even more. Anything else that could be causing this?

[dishuser]

Found it but turning that off made it flicker on and off even more. Anything else that could be causing this?

did you try a new cable?

[squirtNcider]

A few different ones.

[intelpenny4]

if all fails and your having a lot of problems i ended up having to change my hdmi port. how i came to that conclusion was messing around with the cable. i moved the box one day and must of hit the cable just right and the picture went out. i plugged it back in and picture came on. try pulling the hdmi cable out of its port just a little bit and i mean just a little bit. that’s how i determined that my port was wore out. i haven’t had problems since then.

good luck finding the port of you replace it. getting harder to find that style.

[The Noof]

if all fails and your having a lot of problems i ended up having to change my hdmi port. how i came to that conclusion was messing around with the cable. i moved the box one day and must of hit the cable just right and the picture went out. i plugged it back in and picture came on. try pulling the hdmi cable out of its port just a little bit and i mean just a little bit. that’s how i determined that my port was wore out. i haven’t had problems since then.

good luck finding the port of you replace it. getting harder to find that style.

I've changed 2 of them for the same reason.I'm pretty sure I have 2 spares if anyone needs one.They are hard to get.Mine came on a very slow boat from China.

[squirtNcider]

Im going to head to his house tomorrow....I'll post back what I find out.

[auggie]

One of my T5 boxes has the wonky HDMI port, so what I did was use a AV-TO-HDMI-Converter Up-Scaler to TV
I find there is Little difference between the Two, (Pic. Quality etc.)

[jets]

Jackson,

Are you running direct to a TV or through an Amp? You could always us RGB and L/R audio, it wont cut out then and quality is the same.

[squirtNcider]

Couldn't figure it out.....Works perfect still on his old tv, just not the new Samsung. Went though every setting I could find but still does it like every few minutes or so.

[Terryl]

How old is the older TV?

It could be something wonky with HDCP support* on the Dreamlink box, older TV's don't care too much about that, the newer ones do.

*https://www.lifewire.com/hdmi-dvi-hdcp-3276373

Have you tried all the ports on the new TV?

[squirtNcider]

We tried changing to all the different ports. The old tv, sharp aquos, is about 10 years old.

[auggie]

We tried changing to all the different ports. The old tv, sharp aquos, is about 10 years old.

It is most likely the Wonky HDMI port on the T5, I had one doing the same as yours, I ended up using AV-To-HDMI Converter

to Solve the Problem.

[squirtNcider]

I even brought my receiver to his house and it did the same thing.

[Terryl]

I even brought my receiver to his house and it did the same thing.

If it did the same thing at your friends house but works OK on your old TV but not the new one, then something is wrong with the HDMI port drivers in the boxes software, or the HDMI chip set in the receiver.

Have you done any software up dates???