Hi,

Bought my big 1080 toshiba today, set everything up, but don't get any picture, just the blue screen. My xbox360 has the component cable and i plugged all 3 video(green,blue,red) and 2 audio leads into the corresonding component video input slots. Switch the tv to the 3component channel but i only get the sound and a blue screen, and yes my xbox component lead is switched to hdtv mode.

Was so excited, now I am just deflated pleh..

Any help greatly appreciated,

Craig

[RottenFox]

so the component leads are in properly,on the 360,and tv,and in the right places?
the switch is set to "HD".?
and you have changed the tv channel to the component input,BEFORE,you put the 360 on.?
(this sometimes is a cause of no picture,as the tv,doesnt seem to pick up the feed).
also,any settings on the tv,needing tweaked,have been set.?
have you tried the 360 on another tv,and maybe set it to 1080p,and now,the tv you have isnt 1080p over component? - another problem.
can you try another cable/tv/360 on your tv..this would all go to find out what it is.
this seems to be quite common lately,and a few posters have mentioned this problem.

[mpn]

Do you have anything else connected to the red white and yellow connection on the side of the set?? The composite and component connections are both on ext3 on the tosh tvs .... and if both are connected at the same time the tv will only display the composite picture.

Still no luck,

It's like the worlds biggest conundrum. I cannot get the xbox set to 1080 mode. If i plug it into my old telly with the the yellow feed I can only see a picture with the component cable set to TV, when I flick it to HDTV the box resets and I lose picture. If i start the box with lead set to HDTV only ever blue screen so how the hell do I see to set the box to 1080 mode. I cannot figure how to set the xbox settings to 1080 when I can't see the screen. When I plug into new telly I can only get a picture when in TV mode and using side panel yellow input like mpn says.. that's not why I spent one million pounds (that's what it feels like in january) boo-hoo

Thanks,
Craig

My box is still set to 420 mode from old telly, but I should still be getting a picture with lead set to HD and only plugged into component3 slots (albeit poor resolution)? And I have nothing plugged into the side panel component(composite/basic) slots.

[noisecrime]

Originally Posted by rexate

My box is still set to 420 mode from old telly, but I should still be getting a picture with lead set to HD and only plugged into component3 slots (albeit poor resolution)? And I have nothing plugged into the side panel component(composite/basic) slots.

Try the lead set to just TV on the component connections, i'm pretty sure that should work, it doesn't have to be set to HDTV just because you are using component inputs.

If you still see no picture and based on your descriptions here that show you have a good idea what you are meant to be doing, then i'd say there is a good chance that component inputs are broken or that your xbox HD output is.

A few things to double check

1. You are definitely setting the cable to HDTV, the little switch on the side is not the most 'satisfying' thing to use, make sure it 'clicks' when you shift it over to HDTV setting. Perhaps this switch is broken and its only doing SD, but then you should as i said above be getting a picture.

2. Get a friend round with their xbox and test your TV component inputs with it.
To check if its a problem with your xbox HD output

3. Swap your TV cable with theirs and test from your xbox.
To check if its an issue with your cable

4. Take your xbox to a friends and try going through the component inputs on their TV
To check if its your TV component inputs are at fault.

5. I guess you could check your pal settings, is it 50hz or 60hz? Although pretty sure the Tosh can deal with both.

6. Do you have any other gear that outputs component, if so try that as again this will tell you if your inputs on the TV are working or just borked.

I have the same TV as you and had absolutely no problems when connecting up the xbox to it via component. I have on occasion got a blue screen and once a corrupted screen due to TV not recognizing the xbox properly or vice versa, but restarting the 360 fixed that straight away.

good luck

Thanks Noisecrime, but still no luck.

Took my xbox over to a friend, and it worked fine on his HDTV. So not my box or cable. Must be the TV. Maybe the component sockets are dodgy,or I am missing something in the set-up, but tried all settings and still only blue screen of sadness..

Maybe I'll take my xbox to Comet where I got the telly and see if they can get it working on their demo TV..

[RottenFox]

and you are 100% sure there is nothing in the settings,or even for that channel,you have to select component?
and do you have the tv,set to the component channel,when switching on the 360.?

[AgentOrange]

Have you tried using the SCART adapter and plugging into one of the free SCART sockets on the back of the TV? This on my Tosh 42" C3035 would be (circle with arrow) 1 or 2, the component channel on mine is (circle with arrow) 3C.

At least this way you could isolate whether or not it's a fault with the TVs ability to Rx the Xbox signal or just one of the component inputs.

[noisecrime]

Well unless you're missing something mind-numbingly obvious (which I doubt from your replies) it looks most likely now that the component input or the signal processing for them is borked.

I think you've done all you can (unless you can borrow someone elses 360 to test on your TV), so i'd ask the shop for a replacement. By all means see if they will let you test your xbox on their display model, but if that works as it should, demand a replacement TV there and then, don't get fobbed off with a repair offer.

Agent orange, i can get a low res picture using the composite leads (yellow) on the side input. Thnat's not what i want a 1080 for though.

Fox, the on-screen menus only have option for component 2 input for s-video or AV, nothing in any menu relating to component 3 (which is marked on the back of the telly and is theonly place you can insert the red green and blue feeds.



Working until sunday, so will have to visit Comet then. Thanks for trying to help everyone.

[AgentOrange]

I don't have my yellow lead plugged into anything at all????

Red and White stereo leads and the Red, Blue and Green Composite leads, but my yellow isn't plugged into anything.

Correct, the yellow lead should not be plugged in. In my case the only picture i can get is if I plug the yellow in and switch cable to TV mode.

New development, tonight I took my xbox to Comet store. We set it up and it worked first time, no problem full 1080. So I need a new telly as mine is borked.. not great. The manager said I can either call the engineer to come round and authorise a replacement, or I can bring it back to the store so they can test it to confirm and replace it. What a mission this is turning out to be...

Turned out the telly was faulty, and I'm not a dunce..

Got a replacement, and all is well.

Toshiba, I thought japanese products had very few faults.. (flips over box) "Assembled in the U.K" ....aaaaahhh