I am attempting to come out of the dark ages with my home theater system. I recently purchased a 37" Vizio LCD televison. I bought a switcher to plug my PS2, old dvd player, speakers, and HD DVR cable box into. The switcher has inputs and outputs for both component and composite cables. The cable box with the component cables is working fine. The PS2 and the dvd player are connected using composite cables. The sound works, but I have no video. The sound goes from the output of the switcher directly into the speaker system. The video is going from the output of the switcher into the t.v. I am using a composite cable with the yellow, red, and white connections to go between the switcher and the t.v. Can anyone help?
2007-06-02 06:35:21 · 6 answers · asked by robertmcrain 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
Your TV should have enough input ports to use all your devices without a "switcher".
Connect the HD DVR box directly with component cables.
It is preferred to use component for the DVD player as well (if possible), if you insist on composite (SD), I would use S-video cables. Both the video out and the audio out should go to the same input port of the TV. Check you cables and it should work OK.
2007-06-02 15:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by TV guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By "switcher" you mean "receiver" ? You have to program the inputs on the receiver so it knows what is being feed into it and by what. If "video 1" is dvd player it has to know what feed you are using because each input has 4-5 different means of getting a signal. The audio can also be changed but the red-white stereo feeds are usually the default input.
2007-06-02 16:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jason T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Switch your Vizio's video input to the input that your yellow cable is hooked to when using the PS2 or the DVD player. Since most switchers don't upconvert video signals a separate input must be used.
2007-06-02 07:53:06 · answer #3 · answered by trevcda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big difference between the DVD player putting out HDMI and using the composite + L/R audio cables is that you're now asking the receiver to take a bunch of analog signals, digitize them, and then run them out the HDMI output. When you use the HDMI output from the DVD player, the receiver barely has to do anything but route the signals directly to the HDMI output. My guess is that you just have the receiver configured wrong somehow, and that it's digitizing the audio from the wrong source (or is perhaps taking a digital audio stream from another input which is currently unconnected).
2016-05-19 04:42:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you using the correct input on your TV, and are you switching your TV to the correct input so that are seeing the video signal from your switcher.
2007-06-02 15:29:24 · answer #5 · answered by coco2591 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds to me that you are not switching your TV to the correct video mode. TV's don't auto-detect the signal. You have to tell the TV which input to read.
2007-06-02 14:39:22 · answer #6 · answered by techman2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋