Insignia 27 So I get home from Iraq and my wife says that the TV stopped working. The blue light will come on but I get no picture or audio. The TV is just over a year old and has never been roughly handled or anything. Please help...

I think your insignia is set for SHOP mode instead of HOME mode. I changed mine to HOME and it's working fine now. Press your menu button and then scroll down to setup. You're looking for Plug and PLay which should be the very first choice. If it's greyed out as mine was you'll have to change your imput from HDMI to TV in order to get to the P&P. Once you're in the Plug and Play your first choice is language. The second should be SHOP or HOME. Make sure to select HOME. You can skip scanning for channels. This fixed my problem with the blue light. The store uses SHOP so if someone plays around and changes something, all they have to do is shut off the TV and turn it back on. Please let me know if this works.

The TV probably has a lot of video 'inputs' but very few 'outputs' (outlets??). It's main output is to light the room with moving pictures.

So the unidentified Insignia TV may be a Monitor (no speakers). TV's and Monitors only NEED sources of video. Hi-fi sound systems can (and should) handle all audio duties as that is their specialty.

WHY would anyone NEED audio FROM a TV if the programming for it originates elsewhere like a Cable Box/DVD/SAT which probably has a digital sound output (much better than some old red/white analog stereo-only audio)?

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check skart lead connections,and check that the tv is on the right channel,ie av1,av2 ,or skart 1or 2

Below is what your manual says abour it. From hardware perspective, when you have a disc in there the optical audio driver is active and so is the HDMI audio. To verify, lift the lid on the optical interface and you will see a red or blue light on the inside. Don't look directly at it! View from the side.Plug that into your home theater system, select that input on your home theater and you should be good to go.


Insignia NS-BRDVD Blu-ray Disc Player
www.insignia-products.com
Connecting a digital audio optical system
To connect a digital audio optical system:
1Make sure that your player and the TV are
turned off.
2Connect one end of a digital audio optical
cable (not provided) to the DIGITAL OUT
(PCM/BITSTREAM) OPTICAL jack on the
back of your player.
3Connect the other end of the cable to the
DIGITAL AUDIO OPTICAL INPUT jack on
the digital audio system.

try unplugging the tv for an extended period of time.(30-60min) plug it back in, that should do it, if not it may need a new power supply,

the most common item that fails with all LCDs is the power invertor or power supply, and that sounds like what your set is needing is the capacitors have possibly failed on the Invertor

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Make sure the RCA cable is going from an audio OUT on TV or DirecTV box to a red/white (non-digital) audio IN on surround sound or home theater system.

i have the same problem... i think it happend when i accidently plugged left audio to white component on my dvd... HELP!!!!