Ok so a few people had this problem and so did I. Essentially you hook the PS3 up to your TV over HDMI, and you get a signal, but it’s a black screen. I had been waiting about a week to get my HDMI cable in the mail from MonoPrice and when it finally got here and I hooked it up, and switched on the PS3 I was pissed.

After some reading I saw the suggestion that worked for me:

1. Hook the old connection up, in my case that was composite, in addition to the HDMI connection between the TV and PS3
2. Turn on the PS3, let it boot up
3. Go to the System Settings > Display settings, and change the display to HDMI
4. Switch your TV to the HDMI input, accept the display changes.
5. Unhook the old (composite) connection.

After much worrying, the steps above fixed my problem and I was off the races. My first impression of the interface running at 1080p on my Mitsubishi WD-65831 was “NICE!”… I’ll post my BluRay (Crank) impressions soon.
Source(s):
http://www.breakitdownblog.com/ps3-hdmi-black-screen/


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