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Double check the cable connections. Or better yet, get a component cable.
There's no point in investing on a up-scaling DVD player. Might aswell buy a BluRay device.
Okay, so I got this new Samsung 720P hd tv and I hooked up my dvd player but I get a black & white DVD screen and I've tried different hook ups but still the screen is blurry and not clear. It has the old red, white and yellow cords.
Should I just get a new DVD player with HDMI hookup?
Double check the cable connections. Or better yet, get a component cable.
There's no point in investing on a up-scaling DVD player. Might aswell buy a BluRay device.
Rookie move but check to see if the tv is set the the right channel or input. Your using av cable so it should be set to the av input. check if the cables work..
Component cable? will have to try that out. Thanks.
You should not be using regular AV cables to connect to an HDTV. You're going to get for video quality and one thing you'll notice about HDTVs is that although they show better video quality from quality sources, hooking up a bad source to them will leave you with a picture that looks worse than it would on a SD tv.
Hook up either an HDMI cable or component video. The yellow cable is crap. S video is crap too.
With mine, you have to select your input. Now you might also have a setting that specifies your AV input type.
I'm getting frustrated!!
My kids connected the Wii and the same thing is happening. It is all in an unclear screen and in black & white.
I think I do need to use AV since the wii only have the red, white and yellow cords.
I hooked up the HD box today and it looks okay but I need the HDMI connection.
I'm going to mess with the wii connections tomorrow to see if I can get it to work correctly.
When I choose AV at first I was getting no connection, then I got no signal but that was because the wii wasn't turned on. Turned it on and get the B&W screen.
I'm such a doofus.
Did you freakin win a PAL tv or what?
Maybe the AV connection is foobar... if it's under warranty you should get the TV swapped.
This.
It's pointless to even have an HDTV if you're using red white yellow. They are the worst quality cables you can buy. This isn't some nuanced situation that only people with eagle eyes can see, it's a massive, punch you in the face difference. Use at LEAST component cables.
I didnt realize this until recently. My friend who hangs out at our house a lot leaves his PS2 at our house so that we can play when he comes over and we have a 50 inch HDTV. Well he bought component cables for it and I didn't notice much of a difference. Then he bought a 40 inch quattron and took his PS2 back, another friend decided that he would leave his PS2 at our house, and the next time friend 1 came over and we decided to play Burnout 3, I couldn't even see the road (he took his component cables and we were back using composite). It was also the first time we were using our 42 inch plasma screen for games so I think the resolution is a little higher than on our 50 inch DLP, so it was doubly bad. Composite sucks.
well the wii only has the red, white, yellow cables coming from the back. I'm going to get an HDMI to hook up the cable box and also component cables to see if that works. thanks for all the tips
okay, now I see I need to buy the component cable for the wii and see if that helps at all.
Yeah, I think its like 12 bucks through amazon or something. I think you can get it through gamestop for like 25
I'm still unclear why there is no color, even with RCA cables.
Could be a bad/loose AV connector on the back of the TV.
I don't own a Wii. But its surprising it does not have a hdmi cable in the back. Just av and comp?
Pretty sure the highest output from a Wii is 480p. No need for HMDI.
Yeah it only does 480p. And I bought a component cable for less than $10 on Amazon while Target and Gamestop sell it for $25 or more.
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monoprice, WTF, where have you been all my life?? That place looks wonderful!
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It almost sounds like your plugging your AV cables into the component jacks on the TV.
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