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Sound but no picture

We have sound but no picture - either live or from recordings - our Tivo is pretty old (more than 10 years old?) not a V6 or 360. There's nothing wrong with the TV screen - can show NowTV channels. Doesn't seem to be the HDMI cable either as we swapped with the NowTV cable and it was the same problem. 

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Hi @PernilleR 

You could try the following which should force the V6 screen to reset and therefore should also hopefully work on the Tivo and display in the basic  576p resolution.

Hopefully this will allow you to go into the tivo settings and change the video output again.

Using your remote control press Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, 4, 8, 0, Clear

Fingers crossed you should now be able to see the screen again, if so then using your remote

  1. Press Home  > Help & Settings >  Settings > Video Output > Video Output Format

Either go to Auto detect to run a test of your TV’s display options. It will then ask you to confirm the new display selection  or choose  Test Formats to run a quick test on the Virgin TV V6 box and follow the onscreen guides

 

If that fails you may need a replacment box. Faulty Tivo's are now being swapped out for V6 boxes providing you also have broadband via VM.

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Thank you. Although doing the thumbs up down 480 thing didn't bring the picture back, running through and testing all the video output  options and auto formatting a few times seems to have worked. We now have a picture. Still think we might need a new box though.

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Re: Sound but no picture

This is often caused by an HDMI handshake issue - checking whether you can view the menu system & EPG, and whether you have a working video preview, is a good test

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Hi @PernilleR,

Welcome to our Community Forums! Thank you for your first post and I'm very sorry to hear that you're having some issues with your TV services at the moment! 

Glad to hear that your image came back, but we understand that this could be an ongoing issue.

Have you rebooted your TV box to see if this can help with your image issue? Has the issue returned since you've been able to resolve the problem?

Please let us know and we'll be more than happy to look into this further for you and see what we can do to help.

Thank you.

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