Samsung LCD - help me understand this issue

[QueBert]

A friend got one for Xmas, not sure the model, but it's 52" and the latest one Best Buy had. This is the problem, I googled the shit out of it but the answers I found left me scratching my head.

If he's watching a BluRay and turns the player off, it switches back to the TV input by default, which is an RCA connection. I hooked it up for him using HDMI. So when he shuts off the player it goes to TV input and we get nothing but static. Googling this it seems there's no way to fix this and make the default input HDMI 1? I know if he got a universal remote like a Harmony he could set up a macro, but all he has are the 2 Samsung and 1 DirecTV remotes. This seems like a huge WTF on Samsungs part. Is there nothing he can do here? Aside from buying a fancier remote I mean. It's not like he bought the cheapest off brand set he could find. It's incredible that something like this made it past Samsung quality control. Having to press input 4 times every time he wants to go from watching a DVD to watching TV is retarded.

 

[Muadib]

My 4 yo Samsung does the same. He will either buy a remote, or learn to live with it.

 

[JoeBleed]

Wait, the TV signal input is connected via RCA or HDMI? When he turns off the dvd/bluray player, which is hdmi, it goes back to the RCA input?

With mine, when i turn off my dvd player, component connection, it just stays on that connection. When i turn off anything it seems it just stays on that connection screen. The only thing i have plugged into a HDMI port is a computer. I don't have anything else that is HDMI capable.

Also, my TV signal is coming in to the built in tuner over coax. Wonder if i'm just not letting it sit on a blank input long enough for it to switch to another input...

 

[Muadib]

Just to be clear, my set is just like yours, Joe. I meant that there is no way to set an input to be first.

 

[QueBert]

Wait, the TV signal input is connected via RCA or HDMI? When he turns off the dvd/bluray player, which is hdmi, it goes back to the RCA input?

With mine, when i turn off my dvd player, component connection, it just stays on that connection. When i turn off anything it seems it just stays on that connection screen. The only thing i have plugged into a HDMI port is a computer. I don't have anything else that is HDMI capable.

Also, my TV signal is coming in to the built in tuner over coax. Wonder if i'm just not letting it sit on a blank input long enough for it to switch to another input...

TV's on HDMI 1, Blu Ray's on HDMI 2. As Muadib confirmed, Samsungs default to the TV input (RCA) when you turn off a device on another input. I don't see why Samsung doesn't give an option to change this, or at least make the set auto detect a source and switch to it on it's own. It's sad a $2,000 TV has this limitation.

 

[vi edit]

Weird. I've got an A650 with a PS3 hooked up to the "PC" HDMI port. A Wii on AV2. And my cable box on Component 1.

When I turn off the device it aways stays on the device I was last using. If it was the PS3 it stays on that. If it was the Cable box it stayed there.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Having to press input 4 times every time he wants to go from watching a DVD to watching TV is retarded.

What's unbelievable is not having either direct access buttons for each input, or having the first time you ress input pull up an on screen menu.

Not having one of those would be a deal-breaker on a TV for me.

 

[quikah]

My A540 stays on the input it was on.

 

[JoeBleed]

What's unbelievable is not having either direct access buttons for each input, or having the first time you ress input pull up an on screen menu.

Not having one of those would be a deal-breaker on a TV for me.

my b650 has a input or source button on the remote, when i press that a source menu appears on the screen to scroll through and pick which input i want. It shows the active inputs at the top of the list. Even though my dvd player is off, it still shows the component input under my TV input(coax). I have to unplug the dvd player for it to not show as an active input.

If i just keep pressing the source button it cycles through the inputs, but i don't do it that way so i don't remember in which order it changes. If i remember when i get home i will try it.

QueBert, saying, "TV's on HDMI 1" and then saying "TV input (RCA)" is confusing me. Whats with the RCA if its plugged into HDMI 1? or is RCA the brand of the cable/sat box? sorry for the confusion.

 

[rdp6]

LNT5271F here:
HDMI1: PC setting, macbook pro input
HDMI2: Toshiba HDA35 HDDVD player
HDMI3: DirecTV receiver (too lazy to look, it's the -23 model)

If the TV is set to any of these inputs and I shut that input off / put in sleep mode, the TV stays on that input. If any / all of these are in sleep mode / off as I cycle through the inputs, the TV skips the inputs which are asleep / off.

The TV cycles through all analog inputs which have cables connected to the inputs regardless of their active / inactive state.

 

[3chordcharlie]

my b650 has a input or source button on the remote, when i press that a source menu appears on the screen to scroll through and pick which input i want. It shows the active inputs at the top of the list. Even though my dvd player is off, it still shows the component input under my TV input(coax). I have to unplug the dvd player for it to not show as an active input.

If i just keep pressing the source button it cycles through the inputs, but i don't do it that way so i don't remember in which order it changes. If i remember when i get home i will try it.

QueBert, saying, "TV's on HDMI 1" and then saying "TV input (RCA)" is confusing me. Whats with the RCA if its plugged into HDMI 1? or is RCA the brand of the cable/sat box? sorry for the confusion.

My TV pops up a menu when you hit input, too, and you can keep hitting it to cycle the inputs. Or, you can use the number pad, since each input has a number next to it.

Along with being a little quicker, it completely prevents my harmony remote from ever becoming confused and cycling to the wrong input.

 

[QueBert]

my b650 has a input or source button on the remote, when i press that a source menu appears on the screen to scroll through and pick which input i want. It shows the active inputs at the top of the list. Even though my dvd player is off, it still shows the component input under my TV input(coax). I have to unplug the dvd player for it to not show as an active input.

If i just keep pressing the source button it cycles through the inputs, but i don't do it that way so i don't remember in which order it changes. If i remember when i get home i will try it.

QueBert, saying, "TV's on HDMI 1" and then saying "TV input (RCA)" is confusing me. Whats with the RCA if its plugged into HDMI 1? or is RCA the brand of the cable/sat box? sorry for the confusion.

Sorry, Samsung has RCA as the default TV connection, his TV is hooked up with HDMI. He either has to press the source button a bunch of times, or press it and scroll down the menu and select HDMI. I have spoken to about a dozen people who have Samsung TV's and deal with the same issue. This is by far the most retarded thing ever. My neighbor has a ghetto no name LCD and when they turn off their DVD player it detects the DirecTV signal and auto switches. I will NEVER buy a Samsung TV after this. There's no explainable reason why there isn't an option in the setup that lets you select which input the TV uses.

 

[SpeedEng66]

try turning off the dma or dna (cant recall what it's called) if you have a sammy player

I have a sammy 750 hooked up to a sammy br dvd and it would enable dna by default..
when ever I turn off the the dvd it would boot me to coax tv (vhich is not hooked up) so I used to get the static too
so all I did was go to menu the scroll down (4times) to advance, and turn off dna
no more static, it just stays on hdmi2 (for me) when I power off my dvd player