I feel shame deep shame posting a post like this. But I'm so frustrated right now I could, would if I could, spit nails, and I'm not sure what other way to go about this, and I thought maybe one of you wonderful people (I learned early and often to kiss ass when I want something, yo) could help me out. This is for you out there who know tech stuff, about which I am generally a big honking flop.
See, I got a new TV. This one. I got a cheap DVD player a couple of months ago, this one. For the time being I wanna stick with this DVD player if I can; I'm not really prepped to go get BluRay just yet. But I have this fancy HD TV now, so I got an HDMI cable to connect the DVD player and TV and use the supposed upscaling thingamajig.
Only, once I connect the DVD player to the TV player and insert a disc and it loads, the screen looks like this:
(Besides being gypsy-cursed, Alison Lohman looks like shit)WTF! The colors are all wrong, flipped, erratic. And I can't figure out why, or how to make it look right. I thought it might be the HDMI cable so I returned one and brought the new one home tonight and it's the same deal. Fucked up.
So anyone got any ideas what I need to do? Is the DVD player just too cheap? Please tell me there's nothing wrong with the TV! Everything else seems fine. The broadcast HD channels look glorious. I haven't hooked up an HD cable box yet, I'll be exchanging boxes tomorrow, so I haven't got anything else besides the DVD player with an HDMI connection to hook to the TV to check it with.
If anybody has any ideas, any help to offer,
it'd be just so indescribably awesome. Awesome, I says!
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it'd be just so indescribably awesome. Awesome, I says!
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I'm sorry to hear about that. I'm a frequent reader of your blog btw, I love it!
In any case, I would say that it's a color setting on the TV, or maybe it's not set for HDMI in the settings. Do you have it also plugged in through a coaxial cable? If so, it could be interference from the two inputs.
I doubt it's the TV or DVD player, they are both too new. It's probably some stupid random setting.
Hi Maria! Thanks for the kind words and help.
I thought you might be right about the fact that I had the DVD player connected thru both a three-colored (red white yellow) composite cable and the HDMI cable so I disconnected the composite but it didn't do anything, the picture still looks the same.
Here's a weird thing: when I have the DVD player connected with both the composite and the HDMi cable to the TV, if I play the DVD through the composite cable the DVD looks fine. Great even. But if I press any button, play or menu or anything, while its playing, it switches right over to the HDMI cable and looks awful, like the picture I posted.
I'm sure you're right about it being some setting but I can't figure out what one.
My brain hurts. I am so completely lousy at this tech stuff. I don't understand!
It looks like it's a setting with your DVD player. You need to go into the DVD player setting and set the video output to use HDMI. It probably defaults to the composite RCA (Yellow for video and Red/White for audio). I'll bet that if you change the output to HDMI or Digital, it'll look fine.
Beau's right AND it may be that your dvd player won't be able to switch settings to HDMI at all, which would mean you'll need to stick to just RCA cabling until you do/can get a blu-ray or ps3 player.
Yeah...when I had that problem with my cable box, it turned out that it was the HDMI plug in on the cable box.
Thanks, Beau, Evan and thomwade. I'll check into this tonight when I get home from work. I'll have my new cable box tonight too so we'll see what I can manage. All you guys rock, by the way. ROCK! ;-)
Forgive me, JA, but I'm stealing that solarized image of Alison Lohman! It's Drag Me to Hell meets The Girl on the Motorcycle!
Don't know if I can add much. The player does specifically state that it uses HDMI, so that's not it (unless there's a problem with the actual plug). And the TV works fine for broadcast, so it sounds okay. I'm thinking DVD player output settings as well. When I toggle between my DVD player and my blu-ray, the settings show as being different on the TV.
By the way, when you go blu-ray, try the Sony BDP-S360. I've been very happy with mine so far, and it's reasonably priced (on sale at Amazon right now for $125).
Does this help?
http://madeinbrazil.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4f4c53ef0120a769a971970b-pi
YAY! I figured it out. The problem was I hadn't disocnnected the composite cables and unplugged everything, and then replugged it in with just the HDMI attached. I hadn't unplugged the DVD player at all. So it hadn't rebooted with only the HDMI cable to work through. Anyway it's all working now and looks fucking gorgeous and I feel like a weight's been lifted. You guys rule, thank you so much for the help. THANK YOU!!!
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