Philips TV And Xbox HDMI connection problem

Pikeman

Hey,
Apologies if this has been asked before here - I'm a bit clueless with this sorta stuff but I had already hooked up my xbox and Philips LED tv with the HDMI cable and it worked fine for a couple of days. It doesn't seem to work at all now though and just comes up with a black screen displaying "No Video Signal".
I've swapped the cable around loads and tried the different HDI slots on the TV but still to no avail.
Anyone have any ideas?

Sad Professor

Maybe it's the cable. Was it cheap? Can you test it with another device?

lar77

Plug the xbox in with the RCA cables and make sure it hasn't re-set itself to standard cable choice i.e. make sure the settings are right for the HDMI to work. This will also tell you that the xbox itself is still working. They do tend to just stop! Any red lights on the front?

Could be a bad cable but would be strange that it would just stop working unless it got pulled / twisted. Don't spend lots on a new HDMI cable, they all work the same way, pic quality won't be better the more you spend unless it's a really long cable, spend 20 max, not one of the €100 rip off ones.

Could be a HDMI handshake prob with the TV, try turning the TV / Xbox on in different orders.

Pikeman

lar77 wrote: »

Plug the xbox in with the RCA cables and make sure it hasn't re-set itself to standard cable choice i.e. make sure the settings are right for the HDMI to work. This will also tell you that the xbox itself is still working. They do tend to just stop! Any red lights on the front?

Could be a bad cable but would be strange that it would just stop working unless it got pulled / twisted. Don't spend lots on a new HDMI cable, they all work the same way, pic quality won't be better the more you spend unless it's a really long cable, spend 20 max, not one of the €100 rip off ones.

Could be a HDMI handshake prob with the TV, try turning the TV / Xbox on in different orders.

No red lights no. New enough Xbox.
I plugged the RCA cables in but it only comes up as black and white-sound is grand. Tried all variations but just remains as black and white picture. You can't plug the RCA and HDMI in at the same time anyway it seems.

HDMI Cable came with the Xbox so I'd presume it's decent enough.

lar77

Are the 'RCA' cables red, white and yellow or are they red blue and green (component cable) ..... are the colours on the cables matching the colours on the TV connectors? You will get a black and white image if all 3 component cables (all 3 are video, no sound) are not connected in the correct sockets.

Other than that, try the xbox on another TV .....

Pikeman

lar77 wrote: »

Are the 'RCA' cables red, white and yellow or are they red blue and green (component cable) ..... are the colours on the cables matching the colours on the TV connectors? You will get a black and white image if all 3 component cables (all 3 are video, no sound) are not connected in the correct sockets.

Other than that, try the xbox on another TV .....

Yeah the cables are red, white and yellow.
Back of tv has white, green, blue and 2 red.
Would love to try it on another tv but tis the only one I have.

mossym

Pikeman wrote: »

Yeah the cables are red, white and yellow.
Back of tv has white, green, blue and 2 red.
Would love to try it on another tv but tis the only one I have.

red white and yellow are audio(red/white) and composite video yellow)

green blue and one of the reds on the tv are component input, the other red/white is audio

you;re getting black white on that becuase you've plugged a composite video signal into a component input, that won't work. you either need to get the component cables for your xbox, buy a composite adapter for scart, or check if there is a single yellow connector on the side, that would work as well