Panasonic Viera not connecting to Apple TV

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Panasonic Viera not connecting to Apple TV

Hi,

I have the Panasonic Viera model# TH-42PX500U. This may be more of a question about the tv, rather than the apple tv. I just purchased an apple tv and HDMI cable from Apple. I plug the HDMI cord into the HDMI output on the tv and into the Apple device, and then I also plugged the apple device into a power outlet.

When I go to change the input on the television, it won't let me click on HDMI. It's grayed out. It only let's me go back and forth between tv, dvd, component 2 and PC. The ones that are grayed out and not accessible are HDMI, Video 1, Video 2, and Video 3. I need to click on HDMI!

Any suggestions would be really appreciated....

Thanks

Posted on Dec 25, 2013 9:40 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 25, 2013 10:20 AM in response to Alexandra Decas

ATV plugs into an HDMI input, not the output.

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Answer 2

Dec 25, 2013 11:14 AM in response to Urban Shocker

It ended up being a setting re: my inputs on the tv menu. Thank you though!

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MM1971

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Jan 20, 2014 4:05 AM in response to Alexandra Decas

Hi Alexandra

can you give more specifics on the solution as I have the same problem and haven't been able to work it out!

thanks a lot

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bors10

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Jan 20, 2014 3:44 PM in response to MM1971

MM1971 Oddly enough I just had this problem today myself. So I hit tv/vcr and it skipped past HDMI. What I had to do was go to menu / channel / captions / input labels. My HDMI port said "skip". So I changed that to "cable" (for what I needed). And the pressed ok in the middle so it "stuck." Then it showed up when doing the tv/vcr button.

I have a really old 2004 plasma so not 100% this is the same exact way on newer models, but I bet it's a similar issue. Took me a while to figure out the answer but Alexandra saying "menu" got me looking in depth there till I found it. So thanks Alexandra.

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Answer 5

Jan 21, 2014 11:24 AM in response to Alexandra Decas

Glad it's working for you! Yeah, I don't exactly remember now what it was that I did...but I do know that I went into menu and somewhere in the settings you can control the input labels.

Hopefully the response above will help MM1971...

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