1 day old TV HDMI flicker!

[SteveS Cup]

Hi all,

Needed a new tv but didn't want to go crazy as we've not long got the house.

We ended up buying a SAMSUNG UE40H5500 40 inch Smart LED TV 1080p HD Freeview HD.

Just got home and thought we'd watch a film (streamed through Netflix on our Virgin TiVo box) and it's cutting out every 10 seconds!

I put the HDMI cable in to Port 2 and it works fine.

Does anyone know if this is a setting which has been knocked or just take it back to the shop already!?

[Catatafish]

SteveS Cup said:

Hi all,

Needed a new tv but didn't want to go crazy as we've not long got the house.

We ended up buying a SAMSUNG UE40H5500 40 inch Smart LED TV 1080p HD Freeview HD.

Just got home and thought we'd watch a film (streamed through Netflix on our Virgin TiVo box) and it's cutting out every 10 seconds!

I put the HDMI cable in to Port 2 and it works fine.

Does anyone know if this is a setting which has been knocked or just take it back to the shop already!?

Could be damaged HDMI port on the TV?

[JimbobVFR]

It would be worth trying a different cable IMO if only for elimination purposes. No need to go mad with expensive cables but I do have a cable I was given that is marginal and possibly faulty, it does work OK in some ports or with some combinations of devices but not with others, it's in the bin now.

[SteveS Cup]

I hoped it was a dodgy cable but I emlinated that when it worked in Port 2... Maybe it's worth grabbing a new cable just to check it anyway.

[JimbobVFR]

Yes definitely. I had a cable that I believe had been crushed under the leg of my heavy HiFi rack. It was fine at 720P however it wouldn't work at 1080P unless it was in HDMI 2 on my TV, that was a dodgy cable but it still worked perfectly in some ports but not others. Certainly worth a cheap cable to test before the hassle of replacing the TV.