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Buly · 08-20-2018, 11:02 AM

Once in a while when I turn on the main TV on, the picture comes all pink. My solution is to pull of the 12V power off the Vinegard HDMI switch ( sometimes more than once) to get normal colors. Had a technician yesterday for another problem and it happened again. He said the switch is defective. I wander if someone else had to deal with the same problem?

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jvalich · 08-20-2018, 11:43 AM

Chances are the HDMI switch is fine. HDMI components can get "confused" during the handshake process. This can be caused by a number of things, firmware versions of the display and or signal source device, loose cable, poor quality cable, power on sequence.

In my furniture store I generally have 15 - 18 tvs hooked to two cascaded high end HDMI switches serving audio and video from a single source. All can be running and you can power off and power on one tv in the mix and several others will go blank for a few seconds while they renegotiate their connection to the switch and source. Others keep playing like nothing has happened. I'll have the same thing happen occasionally in my coach when I switch sources. If I power up the Blu-ray player and then quickly switch from watching the Apple TV, the tv picture will occasionally get squirrelly because the handshake process was interrupted.

Buly · 08-20-2018, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by jvalich

Chances are the HDMI switch is fine. HDMI components can get "confused" during the handshake process. This can be caused by a number of things, firmware versions of the display and or signal source device, loose cable, poor quality cable, power on sequence.

In my furniture store I generally have 15 - 18 tvs hooked to two cascaded high end HDMI switches serving audio and video from a single source. All can be running and you can power off and power on one tv in the mix and several others will go blank for a few seconds while they renegotiate their connection to the switch and source. Others keep playing like nothing has happened. I'll have the same thing happen occasionally in my coach when I switch sources. If I power up the Blu-ray player and then quickly switch from watching the Apple TV, the tv picture will occasionally get squirrelly because the handshake process was interrupted.

Thanks. I may just install inline switch instead of screwing/unscrewing the power plug from the switch?