How Do I Fix a Television with sound but no picture when in Video Mode?

Stevie Kizziar: Since your television works fine on cable, your problem is NOT likely the TV, but rather the signal souce. The cable signal goes through a tuner assembly where the channel you want to watch is selected. That signal is split, with the audio going one direction, and the video going another. Each is amplified and conditioned for speakers or screen. When in video mode, the tuner is bypassed, and separate audio/video signals go directly to the appropriate amplifiers and conditioners - the same circuitry as the tuner signal after being split. Take a close look at the video cable and connectors. If the audio and video cables are identical (except for wire color), try switching them to see if the problem goes with the cable....Show more

Renita Sefton: It's definately not an issue with the cords. We have clear color differences on cords for both our dvd player and the gaming systems we hook up to the television so its very clearly defined which go in t! he video slot. We also have gotten both sets of cords to work on other tv's.