Solved! Video cable issues

[Guest]

My brand new TV has red, yellow & white inputs but the wire from my receiver is red, blue & green. I do not need audio since I have surround sound already set up. Is there a converter to take a red, blue green input to a single yellow or HDMI?

 

[Solandri]

Red yellow white is composite (the yellow is composite, the red and white are actually audio right and left). Red blue green are component (all three are video).

Composite is only suitable for up to about 480p output. Component is a much superior video format than composite, capable of producing a respectable 1080p image. If this is a recent model TV, you really should be looking for a component to HDMI converter. Unfortunately Amazon's search is being its usual annoying self and polluting the search results with all sorts of other adapters, so I can't find a decent one for you (it's an analog to digital conversion, so there are a lot of trash converters out there). But component to HDMI is what you're looking for.

 

[boju]

Can get component to hdmi active adapters, there are plenty around. Adapter needs be powered to convert the signal.

https://www.amazon.com/Portta-N3CVRHP-Component-Converter-support/dp/B003VJ9RP6

Whats your TV and AVR? And what do you want to do with an adapter?

Red, blue and green is component video. Im guessing you have audio connected from source device to AVR directly and just want video sent to the TV?

 

[Guest]

I purchased this from Amazon and the TV did not recognize the signal.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07143MDTX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Guest]

Can get component to hdmi active adapters, there are plenty around. Adapter needs be powered to convert the signal.

https://www.amazon.com/Portta-N3CVRHP-Component-Converter-support/dp/B003VJ9RP6

Whats your TV and AVR? And what do you want to do with an adapter?

Red, blue and green is component video. Im guessing you have audio connected from source device to AVR directly and just want video sent to the TV?

Correct - just need video signal.

 

[boju]

I purchased this from Amazon and the TV did not recognize the signal.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07143MDTX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Are you using the mini usb to usb for power with that adapter?

 

[Guest]

I purchased this from Amazon and the TV did not recognize the signal.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07143MDTX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Are you using the mini usb to usb for power with that adapter?

Yes, powered up and tried two different HDMI cables to make certain that was not the issue.

 

[boju]

What device are you using you want picture from? Someone with that adapter needed to change their ps2's colour format to YPbPr for it to work. If your device has an option to change YPbPr component and haven't done so try that.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your responses. I am attempting to use satellite (DISH) on a patio tv. The tuner is set up in that whatever station is on in the living room is also on the patio. The old tv fell victim to a power surge and had the RBG inputs. The new tv does not have an option in the settings to change the color format.

 

[boju]

So are you linking the two TVs from the same tuner box? Not sure how you've set it up. Which TV is new? the one inside or the one on the patio?

I have similar with satellite TV cable box. It has hdmi and AV. The main TV inside uses hdmi, the TV i have outside is linked with long AV cable. Both HDMI and AV play at the same time from the cable box. I have another TV in a gazebo, so both TVs outside. These two older Panasonic's outside both have AV out's so that's made chaining them easy so used coax cable for the length with rca ends to extend the video to the gazebo and Cat5 cable for audio. Cat5's 90ohms is too high for AV video (had lines) coax's 60ohms was good.

I'm just explaining how i have it set to try familiarise your situation.

If you could explain how you had it setup before.

 

[Guest]

I did not originally set the system up. I bought the house recently. Both TVs are linked to the same tuner box. The outdoor TV with the red, yellow & white connections is new. The wires coming from the ceiling are red, blue & green (all video). Again - do not need audio - just need to combine the video signals. The HDMI converter from my previous post did not work as the TV did not recognize a signal.

 

[boju]

The cables coming from the tuner box to outside may be too long for the hdmi adapter.

What connections does the tuner have?

Try test the hdmi adapter inside, even if you use yellow red and white cable connected to component if thats what you have in a shorter length.

If the tuner box does have av yellow red and white out, can use component cable with that too.