Sound but no picture

On your Samsung remote. Press the MENU button. At the botttom of your screen you have the setup selections. Scroll over to the SOUND option and select that, A menu should appear and toward the bottom of the menu you should see MELODY. Scroll down to that and select ON or OFF...

If your TV has progressive scan capability, you may be able to view the on-screen setup menu via the recorder - select 'SETUP' press 'ENTER' on your DVD recorder's remote to bring up the menu - with the remote arrow buttons, scroll down to select 'VIDEO' then 'PROGRESSIVE' - highlight it then set it to OFF (you cannot do this with a TV that does not support progressive scan from this unit). Once done, exit the setup menu and it should work fine with all the other settings. If your TV doesn't have progressive scan, connect the DVD recorder to one which does and turn its progressive output off there. I assume you still have the user manual for your recorder (if not, you can download it online for free as an Adobe document - .pdf. Page 73 details the setup steps for this model). I hope this tip helps somewhat.

1. Turn on the camera
2. Press the SET button (lower right).
3. Press the "trashcan" button ( to the right of the SET button) to scroll through the setup menu, 15 times, to get to the calendar icon.
4. Press the "ViviLink" button (below the SET button) to scroll down to "date setup."
5. Use the buttons surrounding the SET button (Scene, Trashcan, Flash, and ViviLink) as left,right,, up, and down arrows. Use up and down to change the month, then right to get to the date and up/down to change it, then right again to get to the year and up/down to change it, and so on through hour, minute, second, and AM/PM. Once the clock is set, press MODE to accept the settings.
6. You can scroll up and change whether you want the camera to timestamp the pictures - I turn this off.
7. Press mode again to exit the setup.

Make sure the monochrome setting isn't on.

Press the menu button go down to advanced and press enter.
Go to monochrome and press enter. Make sure it is on off and press enter. Press exit.
Please note what input you are in.
If this does not resolve the issue press the menu button and scroll over to setup. Scroll down to reset and press enter. Yes enter, yes enter again.
The tv will turn off and turn back on again.
Go to the right input.
If this does not work please change the cables you are using or try another input with the same and different cables. Attach another device to the tv to see if it is also a black and white picture.

Try changing the cable. Is it a red and white composite audio cable or an hdmi cable? Try resetting the tv to the factory preset values. On the tv remote press the menu button and scroll over to setup. Scroll down to reset and press enter. Select yes then press enter. Select yes again then press enter. Then after the tv restarts go back to the correct input. I do recommend trying another set of cables if jiggling them did cause the sound to come back once before.

More than likely the TV is in the "retail" mode which intentionally reverts to the "vivid" mode after a short period of time on the other settings, deemed best for retailer display puposes.

Follow the "return to factory settings" instructions found in the operators manual, pg 21 of KDL52S5100. Only the first half of the instructions are needed to put the TV in "home" mode, the 2nd slection to make after "language. After you have slected "home" I do not beleiev you need to any go further into the setup menu.

"Turn the TV on. Press and hold the "^" (up arrow) button on the remote and then push the "Power" button on the TV. Release the "up" arrow."

You should now be back to start, select langauge and home mode and then exit.

You now should be good to go and your picture mode selections should now stay put.

Sony has live tech help "chat" and I would suggest using them if this doesn't get it done - but I'm 99.95% sure this is your fix.

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Channel Edit makes it easy for you to save or delete channels in the list of channels in the TV?s memory. 1. Using the Number buttons, select the channel you wish to save or delete. 2. Press MENU to see the menu. 3. Press upper or lower key to scroll through the menu until SETUP is highlighted. 4. Press right key to enter the SETUP menu. 5. Press upper or lower key to scroll through the SETUP menu until CHANNEL EDIT is highlighted. 6. Press right key to choose SAVED or DELETED. Choose SAVED to add the channel to the TV?s memory. It will be available using the CH +/? buttons. Choose DELETED to remove the present channel from the TV memory. To clear the menu press STATUS/EXIT. Or, wait a few seconds after you finish your adjustment; the menu will disappear automatically. Please do rate this solution as FixYa and revert for further assistance. Thanks Rylee

1. On the front of the TV press the MENU button to display the MAIN MENU.
   
2. Scroll through the choices using the VOLUME up and down buttons
3. When positioned on the selection you want press the MENU button again.
4. The first SETUP screen displays, asking you to select a language.
5. Scroll to the desired language ENGLISH, FRANCAIS or ESPANOL and once it is highlighted in green press the MENU button to make finale selection.
6. A SETUP screen appears asking if you would like the TV to search for all channel
7. 1. Yes
   2. Skip this step
   3. 0 Exit
8. Complete the SETUP routine or skip any of the steps and return to them later.
   

This information is from the User Guide that came with our set. Good Luck.

Try this,

Before plugging into USB cord go into menu on the camera. Then scroll down to setup press, then scroll down to USB mode. Press OKAY, then click on PTP and OKAY button. Now exit out by pressing menu button until back to the LIVE CAMERA phase.

Now plug in USB, CONNECT TO COMPUTER & should read PROCESSING...
Wait a few minutes (camera is very slow). Watch computer screen as a small bos should pop up which reads

AUTO PLAY now scroll down to
DEVICE OPTIONS - IMPORT PICTURES USING WINDOWS
Click on this

Now photo's should start downloading