Screen flickers while using external display

while using my macbook pro with an external display (my sony LCD TV). the external screen (TV) flickers. it goes black for about a second then comes on. it will happen about 20 minutes into watching TV and happens more often the longer i watch. for example i just finished watching a 40 minute video podcast it happened at the halfway point then more often - about 10 minutes later then 5 minutes later - then 2 minutes... the final minutes of the show it happened about 3 times before the end.
any help? any ideas? i suspect (though i can't prove) it has to do with the setting for the external display.
thanks

Can you run memory diagnostics ? Download a pre-compiled bootable iso from http://www.memtest.org/ down the page and make a bootable CD. Boot to this CD and run RAM diagnostic for a couple of hours, maybe overnight, and see if your laptop has RAM errors.
If you have no RAM defect after the long test above, then uninstall all ATI/AMD gfx card drivers in Programs and Feature in Control Panel. Now go to Device Manager and disable your gfx card, putting a checkmark in the box Uninstall drivers for this hardware. ( Please note this operation will not harm your computer. Windows will redetect your gfx card after restart. )
Restart as required by Windows 7.
You may have to disable and then enable the gfx card in Device Manager several times until you are left with VGA drivers only. ( Computer gurus suggest using a Driver Sweeper/Driver Cleaner program. But I do the driver cleaning chore myself. You may go to C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS folder and manually delete Atikmpag.sys, Atikmdag.sys drivers. )
Now you can re-install the ATI/AMD drivers that you have downloaded from hp suppport.
Hope this helps.

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    prevents_sleep_mode = true
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    hide_empty_folders = true
    hide_media_library_folder = true
    hide_transcode_folder = true
    hide_enginenames = true
    enable_archive_browsing = false
    audio_thumbnails_method = 2
    mencoder_subfribidi = false
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    tsmuxer_forcefps = true
    tsmuxer_preremux_pcm = false
    tsmuxer_preremux_ac3 = false
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    audiobitrate = 384
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    skiploopfilter = false
    mencoder_fontconfig = false
    mencoder_font =
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    mencoder_usepcm = false
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    mencoder_ass_scale = 1.0
    mencoder_ass_margin = 10
    mencoder_ass_outline = 1
    mencoder_ass_shadow = 1
    mencoder_noass_scale = 3
    mencoder_noass_subpos = 2
    mencoder_noass_blur = 1
    mencoder_noass_outline = 1
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    mencoder_yadif = false
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    General
    Complete name : test without subs.avi
    Format : AVI
    Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
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    Duration : 42mn 24s
    Overall bit rate : 1 153 Kbps
    Writing application : transcode-1.0.6
    Video
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    Format : MPEG-4 Visual
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    Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
    Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
    Codec ID : XVID
    Codec ID/Hint : XviD
    Duration : 42mn 24s
    Bit rate : 978 Kbps
    Width : 624 pixels
    Height : 352 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 16:9
    Frame rate : 23.976 fps
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Progressive
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.186
    Stream size : 296 MiB (85%)
    Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)
    Audio
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    Format : MPEG Audio
    Format version : Version 1
    Format profile : Layer 3
    Mode : Joint stereo
    Codec ID : 55
    Codec ID/Hint : MP3
    Duration : 42mn 23s
    Bit rate mode : Variable
    Bit rate : 160 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 49.4 MiB (14%)
    Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
    Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
    Writing library : LAME3.90.
    Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 18 --abr 160
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    -rw-r--r-- 1 svc-pms svc-pms 77159 Oct 12 12:57 test with subs.srt
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 svc-pms svc-pms 366711578 Oct 23 10:50 test with subs.avi
    MediaInfo output, just to acknowledge it is the same file, but with a different name
    General
    Complete name : test with subs.avi
    Format : AVI
    Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
    File size : 350 MiB
    Duration : 42mn 24s
    Overall bit rate : 1 153 Kbps
    Writing application : transcode-1.0.6
    Video
    ID : 0
    Format : MPEG-4 Visual
    Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
    Format settings, BVOP : 2
    Format settings, QPel : No
    Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
    Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
    Codec ID : XVID
    Codec ID/Hint : XviD
    Duration : 42mn 24s
    Bit rate : 978 Kbps
    Width : 624 pixels
    Height : 352 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 16:9
    Frame rate : 23.976 fps
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Progressive
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.186
    Stream size : 296 MiB (85%)
    Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)
    Audio
    ID : 1
    Format : MPEG Audio
    Format version : Version 1
    Format profile : Layer 3
    Mode : Joint stereo
    Codec ID : 55
    Codec ID/Hint : MP3
    Duration : 42mn 23s
    Bit rate mode : Variable
    Bit rate : 160 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 49.4 MiB (14%)
    Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
    Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
    Writing library : LAME3.90.
    Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 18 --abr 160
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    [main] TRACE 06:17:02.237 by shagrath / 2008-2011
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