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My HDMI cable won't work, please help?

Can I connect my blu-ray home theatre to my TV using Component Cable HDMI Male to 5 RCA RGB Audio Video AV?

  • OK I've had some trouble with this new TV I have. My Blu-Ray home theatre system will not work using a normal HDMI lead so I decided to try a component cable instead. It has all the coloured cables at one end & a HDMI connection at the other. I put the coloured cables into the back of my TV & the HDMI connection into the blu-ray player & set my TV to Component. I'm still getting the same infuriating "No signal" message that I got when I tried it with the normal HDMI lead a few days ago. This is driving me crazy now, can anyone help? Did I hook it up wrong? Did I buy the wrong type of cable? I'm struggling to find one on the net that has the coloured component things at both ends. Please help me out if you can, let me know what I'm doing wrong because I am running out of ways to hook this thing up. It works perfect with the PS3 through the HDMI lead so I don't understand what the problem is with the blu-ray player. Thanks for reading.

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    unfortuneately, many DVD/Bluray players do not enable the HDMI automatically they need to be enabled in the video/output settings in the options menu of the player. HDMI only works to HDMI - it is a digital signal Component is an analogue signal (and again, you would have to select that in the player) and use a Phono to phono lead set (at both ends) The cable you have would only work if it was Analogue IN converted to HDMI out, not sure of the HDMI quality either.. but thats another story ! I would stick with a simple Composite Video out (yellow phono) and connect only that to the TV, then go through the menus to check you have HDMI enabled. All that said, there is a known report that Sony BluRay players are not HDMI compatible with some Sony TV sets (amazing and frustratingly true), so you may have come across one of these rare incompatibilities. - so a a test with your player on someone elses TV/model/manufacturer would be a useful test., So got a friend who would like to be impressed by Bluray for a few hours ?

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If you want to just try the Component cable here it is http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10235&cs_id=1023507&p_id=320&seq=1&format=2 Also I might be able to help more if I have model numbers of tv and bluray player

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Sounds like your BluRay home theater HDMI output is broken or you have not gone into the setup menu and turned on the HDMI output. (Note: You may need to make sure the ONLY output from your BluRay system is the single HDMI cable. When I tried to hook both a component cable and HDMI from my BluRay player - it flashed a message about HDCP copy protection and set the video output to 480 on both wires.) You should be able to just use a HDMI cable between the two. Turn everything off, turn on the 'system', then turn on the TV to try and help things handshake.. If it works with the PS3 but not the system - the system is broken. The "Converter cables" only work if your device is a cam-corder or some other non-copy protected source that has HDMI output Not a single BluRay player in the world will work with these cables.

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