OT: HDMI ports

[Richard Kreiss]

I ordered a Sony sound bar for my Sony LCD.  This should have been a simple
installation.  One HDMI cable from the home theater system out to the flat
panel HDMI in.

He's where the fun began, I could get sound but no video.  Although the TV
saw the home theater system, it still only would receive sound.

Yesterday I called B&H Photo who I ordered the system from and got an RMA.
After repacking everything, I realized that these LCD's are nothing more
than a computer with a large monitor attached.  So, I unplugged the set for
a minute and then unpacked the sound system again and connected it.  It
worked perfectly.

I felt really stupid in that we would tell a client, when they say a
peripheral isn't working, shutdown the computer and then restart it after a
few minutes.

Why the email, just a reminder if you are attaching any Christmas presents
to you TV through an HDMI connection and get no video, unplug the set first,
not just turning it off with the remote, before thinking that the new device
isn't working.  Electronics go into standby mode and are not fully powered
off when they are "turned off".


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net