Electronics

[hckynut]

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@Jordan2 wrote:

@hckynut  the outage wasn't an electric one, I had power it was an outage of my Verizon services. I'm going to buy a cable, if that doesn't work I'll to have a technician  take a look. 

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@Jordan2 

Ok, I guess i missed understanding that in your original post. I hope you get it fixed.

I worked for over 30 years making wires and cables, many were used for underground, some even had armor type shielding covering that the typical, regular overhead cables did not. They still failed. Call it an Outage/Resistance/Continuity or a Short. The results were still the same.

hckynut(john)

[Scooby Doo]

I have Xfinity, not verizon, but I've had that issue before.  One TV worked fine and another didn't.  When I called their service line they somehow manually sent a signal through the box on their end and it reset the box.  I first had to unplug all the connections then plug it back in, and then they sent the signal.  Maybe you need to call again and try another representative.

[debfau]

@Jordan2 

With Verizon Fios, they can trouble shoot thru the App on your phone (My Fios), I had to do this back in March when I tried to figure out why my internet & cable weren't working (turns out when the Tech came to hook up my new downstairs neighbors Fios, there weren't any open spaces in the box so he decided to unplug mine instead of calling and get a new line installed (but I did finally get a live person and got over a week's worth of credit for the time my service was out) - sorry I digressed you should be able to run the App and see if it shows everything is working.

[gardenman]

It's possible it's the HDMI cables as there are HDMI cables and then there are better HDMI cables. Older HDMI cables are typically the 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, etc. cables. The newer 2.0 cables and up handle 4k and other higher end signals. If while reconnecting everything they upgraded the amount of data they're sending, the older cables could be the bottleneck that's slowing everything down.

[Jordan2]

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@gardenman wrote:

It's possible it's the HDMI cables as there are HDMI cables and then there are better HDMI cables. Older HDMI cables are typically the 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, etc. cables. The newer 2.0 cables and up handle 4k and other higher end signals. If while reconnecting everything they upgraded the amount of data they're sending, the older cables could be the bottleneck that's slowing everything down.

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@gardenman my sets are HD, but not 4k, will the newer 2.0 still work for me?

[gardenman]

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@Jordan2 wrote:

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@gardenman wrote:

It's possible it's the HDMI cables as there are HDMI cables and then there are better HDMI cables. Older HDMI cables are typically the 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, etc. cables. The newer 2.0 cables and up handle 4k and other higher end signals. If while reconnecting everything they upgraded the amount of data they're sending, the older cables could be the bottleneck that's slowing everything down.

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@gardenman my sets are HD, but not 4k, will the newer 2.0 still work for me?

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Yeah, the newer cables are backward compatible so that shouldn't be an issue. This may not even be a cable issue at all. A lot of what people say about the HDMI cables is more marketing based than reality-based. I've never had an issue with any HDMI cable not being able to keep up but it's supposed to be possible. Supposedly some cables let more data flow faster than others but the speed of light is the speed of light, so I'm not sure how credible those claims are. 

[hckynut]

@gardenman my sets are HD, but not 4k, will the newer 2.0 still work for me?

Yeah, the newer cables are backward compatible so that shouldn't be an issue. This may not even be a cable issue at all. A lot of what people say about the HDMI cables is more marketing based than reality-based. I've never had an issue with any HDMI cable not being able to keep up but it's supposed to be possible. Supposedly some cables let more data flow faster than others but the speed of light is the speed of light, so I'm not sure how credible those claims are. 

@gardenman 

Thank you! My HDMI cabled are the same as yours. Cables going bad? Miniscule! Stressed this a couple of my posts, but they seemed to fall on deaf ears.

This cable is better than that one, and on and on. I made insulated wires and cables for 30 years. Sure, back then they were all copper, but the main differences were the size(gauge)of the wires/the amount of insulation covering them/the types of insulation covering them/the wall thickness of the insulation covering them/the eccentricity of the insulation covering them. And I could add a few more.

Sure, wires and cables fail, that was part of my jobs. Was an operator and a Quality Control Technician, way different jobs. My QC job was finding these before these products went out the door.

Unless someone is running 24 gauge paired wires 200 feet, or an HDMI cable 50 feet, chances are slim many issues fall back on those things failing.

hckynut 🏒

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[glb613]

Your cables are the same as when the service was working properly.  I doubt this has anything to do with the HDMI cables.  It has to do with your service.  Contact you provider. 

[I am still oxox]

Get a cable on Amazon. Pul and replace plug s do not pull all cables and expect to figure out where they go. 

[Jordan2]

So, this is weird, the same day I did the reboot and switching of the cables my tv was on ABC (channel 7). When I put the tv on I had the problem of blank screen, but it did come on after a minute or two. I left the tv on NBC (channel 4) for two nights in a row. When I turned on the tv the picture came on immediately. I'm wondering if the problem lies with ABC 's signal? I have had problems with ABC before (I live in NYC I don't know why I would have a problem with them). I have a portable type of tv I just bought. I scanned for all channels I can receive, ABC was not one of them that I could get. At this point I may hold back on buying new HDMI cables.