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#1 NCleary

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Posted 04 January 2014 - 09:42 AM

Recently purchased a HDMI switch to use with my TV as it only has 1 HDMI port built in

All my other devices work perfectly fine - PC and blu-ray player, but the Wii U is giving no output through the switch, but does when connected straight into the TV's HDMI port

 

The TV I have is a Hitachi Alis 1080.

 

Have no idea why this could be, and have played around with all the Wii U output settings and still nothing



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Posted 04 January 2014 - 11:39 AM

have you tried changing the Wii U output settings through the gamepad while it is plugged into the HDMI switch?

 

You could try and see if a different HDMI cable works with it, I have had problems before with faulty HDMI cables.


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Posted 04 January 2014 - 01:38 PM

The Wii U is a little finicky with switches. Wii Mode doesn't work on my switch unless I drop to 480p


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Posted 04 January 2014 - 01:44 PM

Your switch wants an HDCP compliant signal, the Wii U doesn't comply to HDCP.

Maybe, but I dunno, that's a likely reason to me though.


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Posted 04 January 2014 - 02:09 PM

I use a three way switch and it works fine with the WiiU, was only a cheapo one from Ebay nothing special.
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Posted 04 January 2014 - 04:51 PM

I use a 4 way switch I got from Walmart and it works just fine with Wii U. Ps4 on the other hand is a bit finicky

#7 NCleary

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Posted 06 January 2014 - 09:01 AM

have you tried changing the Wii U output settings through the gamepad while it is plugged into the HDMI switch?

 

You could try and see if a different HDMI cable works with it, I have had problems before with faulty HDMI cables.

Have tried this, but the Wii U says there is no TV connected while it is going through the switch, so i have to plug it straight into the tv, change the resolution and then put it back through the switch to check it.

 

Its not the HDMI cable, it works perfectly when plugged directly into the TV.



Your switch wants an HDCP compliant signal, the Wii U doesn't comply to HDCP.

Maybe, but I dunno, that's a likely reason to me though.

 

hmmm... other people have said that switches work fine with their Wii U though.

 

Would a HDMI splitter be a better option? Or does that distort signals?






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