akwexavante
Novice Member
TV: Panasonic TX-42A400B
Freesat Receiver: Humax HB 1100S
Cable: HDMI
Not sure this is a TV, Receiver, Service or cable issue.
Occasionally (Fortnightly’ish) my TV screen goes black for a couple or three seconds after which a picture re-appears and in the top left it will indicate that the screen resolution has changed. It might do this just the once or several times within a minute.
Sometimes it settles itself, sometimes it doesn’t and I have to switch the TV and the receiver off for a minute or two then back on. Sometimes this resolves the problem and sometimes it doesn’t.
I’ve restored factory defaults and done a factory reset on both TV and receiver and the issue continues sporadically. Firmware versions are up to date.
Sometimes when I enter the receivers setup the screen resolution isn’t what it’s supposed to be, it’s been downgraded and I manually restore my preferred setting (1080p). Sometimes the resolution is set as low as 576i and I’m unable to change it! It won’t let me.
I normally have it set to 1080p and normally for days at a time and longer that’s perfect and all’s well. It doesn’t seem to matter what channel or program I’m watching, HD or not when the intermittent problem occurs.
Sometimes all I have to do is switch my HDMI cable away from port one to port two and it sorts itself. I tend to switch it back, don’t know why but I do!!!!!
My question is, why is this happening and what may be causing it? At the mo I’m thinking I may have a faulty / failing HDMI port or cable. This is my current angle of thought, I’m leaving the cable plugged into HDMI port two to see if the problem returns. It could be fortnight or longer before I know whether this approach is the right one, by which time I may of even forgotten about it. May suddenly think in 6 months “My problem hasn’t returned” or It could happen again this evening…….. Who knows. Intermittent problems are a pain in the )(*&(*.
Freesat Receiver: Humax HB 1100S
Cable: HDMI
Not sure this is a TV, Receiver, Service or cable issue.
Occasionally (Fortnightly’ish) my TV screen goes black for a couple or three seconds after which a picture re-appears and in the top left it will indicate that the screen resolution has changed. It might do this just the once or several times within a minute.
Sometimes it settles itself, sometimes it doesn’t and I have to switch the TV and the receiver off for a minute or two then back on. Sometimes this resolves the problem and sometimes it doesn’t.
I’ve restored factory defaults and done a factory reset on both TV and receiver and the issue continues sporadically. Firmware versions are up to date.
Sometimes when I enter the receivers setup the screen resolution isn’t what it’s supposed to be, it’s been downgraded and I manually restore my preferred setting (1080p). Sometimes the resolution is set as low as 576i and I’m unable to change it! It won’t let me.
I normally have it set to 1080p and normally for days at a time and longer that’s perfect and all’s well. It doesn’t seem to matter what channel or program I’m watching, HD or not when the intermittent problem occurs.
Sometimes all I have to do is switch my HDMI cable away from port one to port two and it sorts itself. I tend to switch it back, don’t know why but I do!!!!!
My question is, why is this happening and what may be causing it? At the mo I’m thinking I may have a faulty / failing HDMI port or cable. This is my current angle of thought, I’m leaving the cable plugged into HDMI port two to see if the problem returns. It could be fortnight or longer before I know whether this approach is the right one, by which time I may of even forgotten about it. May suddenly think in 6 months “My problem hasn’t returned” or It could happen again this evening…….. Who knows. Intermittent problems are a pain in the )(*&(*.