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Have a Sony KD-30SX955 with Dish DVR and Sony BDP-S350 Blue Ray player. the Dish DVR is connected with componet cables to video 5 on the TV, and blue Ray player was connected to the single HDMI connection (video 7) on the TV. Yesterday the HDMI connection stop working. I moved the player to the second TV using HDMI connection and worked great. I used different HDMI cables and no luck with Sony KD-30SX955. Can a HDMI connection on the TV fail? Sony website says reset tv to factory settings. I thought of using a Psycolone HDMI switch to have the DISH DVR and Blue Ray player filter through to singel TV HDMI connections. What do you recomment?

I don't see how an HDMI switch resolves a broken HDMI input on your TV. Try the factory reset and also an AC reboot - unplug the TV for one minute and plug it back in. If it still does not work it is time for service...

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That said, you don't really need HDMI. Your TV is also native 480p and should provide a great DVD image in that mode using component video cables. Blu-ray will still output 1080i over component. About the only reason you need HDMI in your application is to get the Blu-ray HD audio codecs out of the player for your HD audio codec or PCM multichannel ready A/V receiver.