No picture on TV, component cable in HDMI out.?

Question

I have a Sony HT-DDW900 home theatre system and am trying to hook up my Wii to one of the video channels. The Wii comes with a Red/White/Yellow cable, but I have purchased a Red/White,Red/Green/Blue component cable for a slightly better picture. However, when I hook up the Wii to Video 1 (no other components installed and receiver set to factory settings), I get sound from my receiver’s speakers, but no picture on my TV. I am using an HDMI monitor out to my TV channel HDMI1, but my TV is not receiving the signal. My TV is a Samsung 5087W. Can you not output an HDMI video signal that comes from component cables?

Answer 1

This receiver has HDMI "passthrough" only.  This means that all it does to the HDMI signal is to switch it along with audio components.  

You will have to hook the component cable from your Wii directly to your TV.

To get the best sound from your Wii you want to hook its digital audio output directly to a digital audio output of your receiver.

Answer 2

Hey, not sure if you also have a cable box. But there is currently some cable box platforms that have HDMI issues. Some cable division across the USA have launched the fix.

Answer 3

EXCELLENT QUESTION!

Your Wii must be hooked up to the system using analog audio AND video outputs.  Some people prefer just using the AV inputs that are typically found at the front of their TV (under a little access door there.)  

Others plug the yellow, red & white connectors from the Wii directly into correlating jacks at the front of their AV receivers.  (Note: this requires that you have composite video, "the yellow one", running between your AV receiver's "Monitor Out" jack to a similar one on your TV).

Wii doesn't output EITHER component video (red/green/blue) or HDMI, it only has composite (yellow) video out.

But hey, its a great gaming platform!

Good luck, and let me know how it goes.