LCD goes to snow w/ netflix

[Orwellian]

LG Flatron 22" 2ms


Just got a netflix account. When trying out the instant streaming feature I get about 10 seconds into the movie and the entire display goes to snow (not just the movie player area). I don't have it on full screen. I can watch hd movies from my HD. I can stream other windows media player video. When I hook up an old CRT it works fine. temps on processor and vid card look fine (ati util for vid card, core temp for cpu)

LG and Netflix tech supports are baffled (actually got decent people, they weren't just reading from a script)

all drivers updated of course, etc.

I'm guessing DRM/encryption on feed being picky with my monitor?

 

[ViRGE]

I'm going to concur with the idea that it's a DRM issue. This is just too odd and particular to be a general hardware fault; the problem must lie somewhere in the DRM chain. If your equipment supports HDCP, I'm thinking the problem could be the HDCP components in either the video card or the monitor.

 

[Orwellian]

Solved.

After trying ten billion things, it turned out to be a smack the forehead thing (as comp diagnosis usually is) LG's monitor utility "Forte Manager" was tickling the drm of the stream. I guess the netflix stream saw the LCD utility riding the signal and thought it was a program for copying. Closed Forte Manager and it works.