nope....the installation of the md was still in virgin-state...it blanked once or twice in the orbiter...than after a while again while playback. I didn't have this issue with my previous install and I don't think its a hardwareproblem. I did have some blanking some time ago, when I had KDE loaded..way back with 8.10 alpha. This is different...because now my TV reports No Videosignal and if I recall correctly that didn't happen previously.