why does my plasma tv screen occasionally blank


I have a Samsung PN42A450 connected via hdmi to pioneer elite vsx 92 txh receiver. my time warner hd cable box is also connected to the receiver via hdmi.
My problem is every few weeks on some occasions the tv screen goes completly blank and black for a second or two without any sound and then comes back to normal. this keeps repeating sometimes every few minutes.Please advice
thank you.
laptopdoc

Showing 1 response by theduke

Maybe it's the HDMI connection. This happened to me last week with an intermittent signal. My Sharp lcd tv has its patch bay towards the top of the set. It seems the weight of the cable worked the connection loose. Now, every couple of days I reinforce the connection by hand.

All this is a way of saying that the HDMI termination is ill-thought. The big corporations in Japan, Korea, and China designed it for security purposes first, consumer convenience second. Really, they could have done a better job. I think it stinks, but it's a reality