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<blockquote data-quote="pogoman" data-source="post: 1404837" data-attributes="member: 252644"><p><strong>help</strong></p><p></p><p>Thanks for this thread - I've got a problem I've been tearing my hair out over.</p><p></p><p>I recently (within the past few months) bought a Haier TV with the intention of hooking it up to my iMac and watching Netflix, Hulu, DVDs, etc. on the TV as an external monitor. I bought a cheap mini displayport-to-HDMI adapter and an HDMI cable, and the setup worked beautifully for about a day. The next day it didn't work anymore. Everytime the TV turned on, was set to the right input, or I re-plugged in the adapter my iMac would flash the blue screen I associate with an external monitor being connected, but the TV would show "no signal". I tried every solution I could find online, including a total rollback of my iMac to the day before I got the adaptor. Nothing worked. I figured it was the adapter and that I got what I paid for, which is to say a pretty crummy adapter.</p><p></p><p>After a bit of time I broke down and bought another adapter, this time a rocketfish from Best Buy (I know, more expensive than I could have gotten online, but I really wanted one fast). That one worked for a few days. Then the same deal - iMac flashes blue screen, but no signal on TV, nothing in the computer displays panel. But here's the kicker - it doesn't always not work. Sometimes I could get a signal by re-plugging the adapter and the HDMI cable, sometimes not. Sometimes it just worked if I turned on the the TV. Sometimes switching the TV's "input" back and forth worked. But there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it, which is what frustrates me the most. What miraculously works one day doesn't work the next. Even if I had to do something esoteric every single time to get it set I'd be okay with it - I just can't seem to find anything that will reproducibly get my TV and computer to recognize each other! Any guidance would be hugely appreciated.</p><p></p><p>I'm also not sure if it matters, but sometimes when my iMac and TV played nicely, the background on the TV would be gray. Sometimes it would be the default galaxy picture instead. There didn't seem to be any pattern to that either.</p><p></p><p>Here's my setup:</p><p></p><p>Early 2009 iMac (9,1)</p><p>2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo</p><p>4GB</p><p></p><p>TV is a Haier</p><p>Model L32D1120</p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=haier%20l32d1120%20manual&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CHQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haieramerica.com%2Fdownloads%2Fdl%2Ffile%2Fid%2F258%2Fl32f1120_manual.pdf&ei=C4WwT8biAYL06QG9kKGUCQ&usg=AFQjCNFK4W_2oNGMku9_2CooaWpwmqHjsg" target="_blank">manual here</a> (it's a download link - couldn't find one to view online)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pogoman, post: 1404837, member: 252644"] [b]help[/b] Thanks for this thread - I've got a problem I've been tearing my hair out over. I recently (within the past few months) bought a Haier TV with the intention of hooking it up to my iMac and watching Netflix, Hulu, DVDs, etc. on the TV as an external monitor. I bought a cheap mini displayport-to-HDMI adapter and an HDMI cable, and the setup worked beautifully for about a day. The next day it didn't work anymore. Everytime the TV turned on, was set to the right input, or I re-plugged in the adapter my iMac would flash the blue screen I associate with an external monitor being connected, but the TV would show "no signal". I tried every solution I could find online, including a total rollback of my iMac to the day before I got the adaptor. Nothing worked. I figured it was the adapter and that I got what I paid for, which is to say a pretty crummy adapter. After a bit of time I broke down and bought another adapter, this time a rocketfish from Best Buy (I know, more expensive than I could have gotten online, but I really wanted one fast). That one worked for a few days. Then the same deal - iMac flashes blue screen, but no signal on TV, nothing in the computer displays panel. But here's the kicker - it doesn't always not work. Sometimes I could get a signal by re-plugging the adapter and the HDMI cable, sometimes not. Sometimes it just worked if I turned on the the TV. Sometimes switching the TV's "input" back and forth worked. But there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it, which is what frustrates me the most. What miraculously works one day doesn't work the next. Even if I had to do something esoteric every single time to get it set I'd be okay with it - I just can't seem to find anything that will reproducibly get my TV and computer to recognize each other! Any guidance would be hugely appreciated. I'm also not sure if it matters, but sometimes when my iMac and TV played nicely, the background on the TV would be gray. Sometimes it would be the default galaxy picture instead. There didn't seem to be any pattern to that either. Here's my setup: Early 2009 iMac (9,1) 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB TV is a Haier Model L32D1120 [URL="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=haier%20l32d1120%20manual&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CHQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haieramerica.com%2Fdownloads%2Fdl%2Ffile%2Fid%2F258%2Fl32f1120_manual.pdf&ei=C4WwT8biAYL06QG9kKGUCQ&usg=AFQjCNFK4W_2oNGMku9_2CooaWpwmqHjsg"]manual here[/URL] (it's a download link - couldn't find one to view online) [/QUOTE]
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