How do I make my COMPONENT Cables work Properly?

Question

I have a JVC DVD player with the BLUE, GREEN, RED Component outputs. my 27" Insignia HDTV has the Component Inputs for the BLUE, GREEN, & RED too.
But the picture is greenish with no sound. I have the Red & White for sound plugged in with the Yellow cord hanging. So how do I get the picture perfect and the sound to work for the JVC progressive scan DVD player?

The picture is fine with anything else

Answer 1

Have you looked at the manual yet? Usually the answer will be in there. In some TVs you have to go into the menu and tell the set that you are using component and not RGB. The sound is just a matter of putting the red and white cables into the same input group as your component cables. If your TV doesn't have a user selectable RGB/Component feature, I have no idea.

Answer 2

Have you set your DVD player to use the component outputs? Analog output players use only one form of component output, YPrPb. However, some inputs and outputs may be incorrectly labeled YCrCb, but they are the same signals. Technically, YCrCb refers only to the digital form of the signal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video.

If the picture is greenish, this means that the Yr and Yb signals are not getting through. Check the cables and the connectors. If you have no sound, and are using the red and white plugs, make sure you are getting the proper outputs from the DVD player, and that they are plugged into the audio connectors that are associated with the component video. They are usually indicated by being inside a box drawn around the connectors.

Answer 3

You may want to check to make sure the green and blue wires are not switched around on both ends. Sometimes the colored bands look very similar, especially in low light conditions Also, you may want to check if you have to set the video output type on your DVD player. The audio connectors (red and white) may be connected into the wrong inputs. Sometimes the audio connections are not even close to the component inputs.

Answer 4

Are you sure that the components connected to the TV are in the "input" and not in the "output?"

Do you have the TV and DVD both on the proper channels?

Did you try pushing the cables in harder to make sure that they have good contact?

Play a DVD, and then flip through your television's channels to check if you can HEAR your DVD playing. If you can hear it on a separate channel without picture, it means that you have your sound cables in the wrong input.

Answer 5

Your probaly driving your YCbCr inputs instead of your YPbPr inputs. They are color coded the same and sometimes next to each other, but process the signal at a different phase,, which leads to your greenish tint. they can be confusingly marked. the hdty should say which is which. the dvd player wants to drive the YPbPr inputs. also,,the sound for the componant video aren't the same ones as the rca jacks,, they should be in line with the YPbPr input, for a total of 5 in a row, last two. If you drive the rca sound inputs, while switched to the YPbPr for signal-- no sound, use the ones inline with the YPbPr inputs and sound will be restored, as well as picture, once you change your cables.

Answer 6

You may have a bad cable or bad connector either on the TV or DVD, make sure you have the audio on the output of the DVD and the input of the TV. You may also need to use the optical or composite audio outputs of the DVD to a receiver.