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Anonymous Posted on Dec 01, 2012

My HDMI is not working . I believe it was shorted out by a power surge. What can I do to fix this problem. My set is a Panasonic TH-42Px5OU. All other video ports are working properly.

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Replace the hdmi cable. I've stepped on an hdmi cable and broke something internally and had similar issues.

  • Anonymous Dec 01, 2012

    Actually I swapped cables with another tv and it works fine. I fear it may have fried the board.

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As crcelect suggests you can run the TV on RCA. You should also be able to use coax directly from your cable box. If you don't have cable you can use an rf converter to connect coax.
I have exactly the same problem with my Panasonic TH-42PX75U. I've been told that I may need to run a setup on my cable box to fix the problem. If I find a solution I'll provide details in a future post.

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