Geraldo8 – 1 hour ago  » 

My picture on Foxsat HDR is coming up with a purple hue.

I have changed HDMI cable and aslso switched off completerly and reconnected new cable and picture is still coming up with purple hue.

I don’t think it is a common problem and I do think you have done the sensible things. Perhaps try a SCART cable if the TV has a SCART input.

Geraldo8 – 4 hours ago  » 

TV does not have scary but it must be a box problem as previous recordings are all coming up with purple hue. Looks like purple is replacing red colours.

Thanks for your response. Might have to invest in new box. Had this one for almost 15 years. Served me well.

Your problem in buying a new box will be what to get as Humax no longer produce Freesat boxes and the official Freesat box produced by Arris had a lot of issues when launched but I don’t know the current situation.

There are reds on the screen (eg the orange walls) so I don’t think it’s the reds being replaced by purple. But rather that there is too much blue in the picture (blue and red makes magenta) or not enough green.

I think the picture is actually ‘overexposed’ in photography terms which will cause reds to look purple and blues /greens to be indistinguishable.

I’ve never seen that on the output of an STB normally on when a TV picture controls have been messed with. But you say that you’ve tried on another TV?

If so, I’m lost because as far as I know the picture is always digital then converted to analogue for SCART.

If it was analogue then converted to digital for the HDMI then it would be possible to adjust the levels inside (possibly change a resistor)