HOW CAN WE GET THE TV WORKING??????

I do not own a blue ray player but my son has a PS3. The thick cable is most likely HDMI and it should work without the red/white sound cable...try unplugging them so the auto detect feature if available and activated is not trying to compete by finding 2 sources. If that works great! If not, you can get a yellow RCA for the video and just use those as a source - again, don't use the HDMI cable and try it. If you don't have a yellow RCA, I've used another red or white for video testing to see if I can get a video feed. Most newer red/white cable will pass a video signal just fine and are only color coded for ease of hookup.

Hey dgrines81!

I would need more information to provide an accurate solution including what model of receiver, but it sounds like you have an SD receiver hooked up to a HD TV.

Our SD receivers can show picture on an HD TV, they just need the correct cable. If your TV has the spot, I would recommend using RCA (Red, Yellow, White) cables. Plug those in to the receiver and the TV and then change the input. If the problem continues feel free to reach me here, or at [email protected].

Tommy Faust
DISH Social Media Representative

Please clarify this statement: "...when i hook up just red/white audio..". Is that for only the one external source or all?

It's not clear if you tried the red and white cable swap at BOTH ends to isolate the signal loss to the source or the receiver.

The TV's audio controls determine how loud and in what format its audio exits on the RCA cables.

WHY do you need audio from the TV in the first place. If its programming originates at a Cable BOX THAT would be the best place to use as the audio source - and digitally to boot.

Digital sources must be assigned in the receiver setup. It's in the manual.

Couple of things.

• Are you on an antenna or cable/sat box?
• If you are on an antenna, the sub-channel of a local DTV station (22-2) was the only thing the digital receiver was able to pickup on the initial scan of channels.
• If you are on an antenna, rescan for available channels.
• If you are on a cable/sat box, and scanned for channels you probably picked up a like channel that is in the same bandwidth as 22-2. Probably not even a channel.
• If you have a cable or satellite box, hook it up to one of the VIDEO channels using either a Composite AV cable (Yellow/Red/White) or a Component A/V Cable (RED/GREEN/BLUE with RED/WHITE for audio. If you are lucky enough to have HDMI for your source, use that.
• Going forward, all of your changing channels will be from the SOURCE.

The best thing to use is a scat converter Yellow,Red, and White to scat,but other than that the Yellow,Red, and White plug into the back or the side of the tv.
if you use the converter it wont auto detect like it does with a DVD player or free view box,you will have to change the tv source manual AV1 or AV2 for the scat & S-VIDIO for the Yellow,Red, and White.
If that doesn't work try it on another tv if it's still the same change the cable,or if your tv's HD get a HDMI cable.

put the tv on av

#yellow cord in yellow socket
#red cord in red socket
#white cord in withe socket

now power the dvd

#Yellow cord in yellow socket
there will be 2 places for the red and white cords
#the red and white cords must be inserted in the audio,
# you will see them next 2 each other
insert them you it will work.
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you can hook the cable box into the vcr and then out of the vcr into the spliter which will turn your tv red/white/yellow signel input into two inputs( you can get this at most radio shacks for about $7.00 dollors) this leaves you with one more input for the dvd player
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THANK YOU!

plug one tv using coax (screw in cable). plug the other using composite video cables( yellow, red, white). It will be easy to connect the tv that's the farthest with coax, its cheaper to purchase 50ft of coax vs 50ft of composite video.

connect the cable box to your tv using the audio/video cables
yellow -red-white
to the same colors on the rear of the tv.
switch the the input to audio/video 1 2 or 3
which ever one works.
Thanks guy9

If cable is hooked through cable box with a coaxial cable, then turn tv to ch 3 or ch 4 as appropriate.

If cable is hooked through any other type of cord (red/green/blue or red/white/yellow) use the AV+ or Source button to change your source to Av1, AV2, HDMI, or however you have the cable box hooked to TV (I am assuming your TV is a Philips).