What could cause a blue screen on the tv when the DVD player is turned on
I have had the exact setup for two years. The cable box died and was replaced by the cable company. The next time I turned on the Toshiba dvd player, I got a blue screen. I thought the Toshiba had gone bad and replaced it with the same model, but still had a blue screen. The cable company came back out and said the connections are all exactly correct, but I still have a blue screen and can't record onto a DVD. I can watch previously recorded DVDs, but can't record a new DVD. What could have caused the blue screen? The tv is perfect, except when the Toshiba is turned on. When turning the Toshiba on, the screen is ,at first, fine, but then goes to a pretty blue color. I don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you so much.
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A blue screen indicates no video signal, if you change the video input to a DVD player is it still a blue screen? If yes then the TV is defective. If no then some how the signal is being lost to the TV from whatever source you use for watching broadcast TV
Have you tried using standard RCA AV cables? yellow-red-white - to TV. Or have you tried using an S-Video cable (a 5-pin mini DIN plug) between your DVD player and TV? if your TV has S-Video input, and your player has S-Video output, a cable for this should be easy to obtain and connect. Not expensive either.
Your TV should automatically detect the connection of S-Video (if it has this feature). S-Video is better quality than standard RCA yellow AV cable. (you can leave the existing component video connected)
You can also check your DVD player 'setup' maybe it is incorrect - make sure when using component video (red-green-blue) to set the player's output to progressive (for a TV that supports it) - unless it is already set to this.
If everything in the setup menu checks out OK, go with the cheap and easy S-Video cable suggestion. Radio Shack may sell these.
first is this DVD recorder? its not okay plug the wires from DVD to tv (left / right and video -digital in or av1 in) cable box is connected to tv (red/blue/green) tv should be on component (source)...to view dvd switch to av1 or digtal1.......if this is a recorder get a coaxial cable and connect from cable box out to DVD in (the TV setup stays the same as above) DVD set up should be on CATV/ch 3..........the out connection is the same as a reg player (see above)
Connect the DVD to TV with HDMI or component video, don't use USB, USB on the TV is to insert a flashdrive/thumb drive to display a slideshow or download music.
Good Luck !
The TV is fine. You need to fined the original remote. Be sure you have a cable connection on the anttenna A RF connector. Push menu and find the input. Or maybe input menu...experiment and you will find and correct this. Seen this problem years ago, can't remember exactly what the remote reads. But it should not be serious.
New HD tv. Have digital cable box connected to tv., cable box connected to DVD recorder, but can't get setup menu to come up on tv screen. I had a similar problem. I have a HD tv connected to a digital cable box. I hooked up the DVD recorder with the wires it came with, but it would not play or give me the menu. However it was correctly hooked up. So the next day I connected a HDMI wire from the DVD recorder to the tv and everything works now.
Initially, pls confirm if below is how it is wired using a coaxial cable and not 3cable RCA to RCA:
Charter Digital Cable > DVD/VCR > TV
If yes and your concern is snowy or no signal on the TV screen, might it be that you have to power OFF the DVD/VCR when selecting channels on the TV itself (including when channel setup is being done).
Alternately, you can tune the TV to channel 3 and let the DVD/VCR do the channel selections.
Pls post back results. Good luck and thank you for using FixYa.
DVD-3 RCA phono outputs(red & white=audio,yellow=video
I have a DVP-NS700,the same happens on mine.Turn it on,goes green to red(standby),then press eject,it will then power up properly.
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