I can see my blu-ray players menu on the screen, but when I put in a dvd or blu-ray I can't see the picture.

When I put in a disc I see the onscreen icon showing "loading", but then the picture goes black.
But when I change inputs to the still connected RCA Video cable I can see the picture.
But when I change the input via the tv remote back to HDMI Input 2 (blu-ray player) I get a blu-screen with the words "No Signal" flashing on the screen and after a few seconds it goes black again.

Players display settings are as follows.
TV Type NTSC
Resolution HDMI Auto
TV Aspect 16:9 Wide
Color Space xvYCC

When I have the Display Icon highlighted I see the above plus the following.

HDMI Status Connected
HDMI Preferred Format Invalid

The ATT U-Verse hooked up via HDMI to HDMI input 3 works fine.


I even set my players settings back to factory defaults, but no help.

So why can I see my players menu on the HDMI input, but no disc picture?

Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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Because of HDCP (High Definition Copy Protection).

Disconnect the RCA cable restart the player and see what happens then.

But the cable has been connected for years without a problem. So why now?
And the players last update was in 2010 because the company discontinued their entire blu-ray player line. So it can't be because of a recent player update.

Quoting CubbyUps:

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But the cable has been connected for years without a problem. So why now?
And the players last update was in 2010 because the company discontinued their entire blu-ray player line. So it can't be because of a recent player update.

Because it has been connected for years without HDMI (I assume). Wouldn't it be fairly simple to just try it, rather than question why?

Player updates are usually a good thing. Going forward, not getting them is more likely to be a problem than getting them.

BTW, what are you connecting these thing to, a TV, an a/v Receiver? What brand / model?

Ok.

It was not clear that this was an existing installation that "all of sudden" stopped working properly.

I thought this was something new you were hooking up.

If you changed nothing , and it stopped working, that clearly means that one or more of the components is defective. You just have to systematically change one at a time.

- Try a different HDMI cable
- Try using a different HDMI port for the player
- etc.

No theories. Actually go do it. More times than I can remember, something got "fixed" by the mere act of reinserting a cable, power on/off, or something else quite mundane. Whenever you power a component off, leave it off for at least a minute. Sometimes residual small voltages remain in a circuit that prevents a sensitive chip from completely resetting, Shouldn't happen, but engineers are people too.

If you have been following my saga with my a/v receiver, once I got it back "fixed," it still exhibited some weird behavior until I did a factory reset. Never occurred to me that the fixed component had firmware that had not been properly "booted" in the receiver. Afterwards, it has been working like a charm. Go figure.

Quoting CubbyUps:

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And the players last update was in 2010 because the company discontinued their entire blu-ray player line...

That can still be the problem. New en-/decryption keys are distributed continously, so sooner or later you'll come across a disk that requires a new decryption key that isn't in the player's firmware. For instance, if you have a PS3 and solely use it for BR playback, every once in a while it says it requires a firmware update. Which at my place occurs roughly every 6 to 18 months -- obviously depending on when you have such a disk with a newly distributed key.

Another relatively frequent occuring issue (with my Oppo player), that the menu encoding and behind the scenes encoded interaction with the BR player's storage (usually a hard disk or SSD) is so 'bleeding edge' that the player's processor goes haywire exactly in the way you describe. This problem also can only be remedied by a firmware update -- meaning you're out of luck.

You didn't mention whether this blank screen problem now occurs with all your (even 'old') BluRay's or just with a recently bought one. If your set-up still works with an old disk in your collection (restart your player after a power disconnect for good measure), your set-up is OK, just outdated.

If it occurs with every BR it seems it is time for a new player. Luckily, there are lots of cheap models nowadays.