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Strange HDMI problem
AndyTSJ
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I turned my Samsung TV on this morning and all of my Virgin HD cable channels, which I have running into the HDMI port, are just a black screen. I can pull up the menu, navigate through the programme guide and settings menus of the box but no channels actually show anything.
I then tried the PlayStation 4 and the same thing, just a blank screen.
Any suggestions on what might be the problem? I'd have said the HDMI port itself but given I can see the menus on there I'm at a loss.
I then tried the PlayStation 4 and the same thing, just a blank screen.
Any suggestions on what might be the problem? I'd have said the HDMI port itself but given I can see the menus on there I'm at a loss.
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Edit: The Apple TV gave me this error when I tried to watch a video.
This content requires HDCP for playback. Either your HDMI cable isn't properly connected or your HDMI connection doesn't support HDCP. Please reconnect the HDMI cable from your Apple TV and try again.
(I'm using a third, different HDMI cable so I know it isn't the cable).
If all inputs are the same and the turn on order has no effect the next thing to try is to look through the menu system to see if there is some HDMI setting that turns HDCP on or off, can't say I've ever come across such a setting on the various TVs I've mucked about with but you never know.
Failing that try doing a "factory reset" on the TV. It may call it something else, like "default settings" or similar. This should reset the TV back to it's "out of the box" state so you'll have to go through the initial set-up again. But if it is some odd settings error that might clear it.
And of course it could be a hardware problem in the TV.
Check the audio settings. If there is a choice of audio formats over HDMI set it to PCM or LPCM or Stereo depending on how it is described. If it is set to some surround format the TV may not know how to deal with it. Plain vanilla PCM Stereo should be OK however.