With over two dozen HD channels on Australian broadcast television and endless HD content online, being forced to endure media in anything less than 720p is unbearable.<\/p>\n
You know your HDMI port works and you know your computer’s video card has connected to other HDMI devices before this time, but now the two just can’t seem to work together.<\/p>\n
These six steps will take you through the troubleshooting process to determine which part of the digital chain of devices is breaking down on you.<\/p>\n
Your television or monitor may have multiple displays, including more than one HDMI port. They will typically be labelled “HDMI 1”, “HDMI 2”, and so forth as necessary.<\/p>\n
The “Input” option to swap between them should be near the rest of the controls. It can be easy to assume it’s on the right input and not stop to check, so take the time to look for this simple problem before you get too far into the process of troubleshooting.<\/p>\n
“Turn it on and off again” may sound like basic and silly advice, but electronics perform startup routines that can clear out issues with less effort than more advanced techniques with few downsides.<\/p>\n
For HDMI in particular, there is an advanced verification process used to deter piracy that can occasionally cause issues, and restarting gets the devices to try to verify one another once again. Just be sure to save any open files if one of those devices is a personal computer. Try it once, twice at most.<\/p>\n