KD-55XF9005 - Wii will not connect

JL2020 — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:51:24 GMT

Our Wii has worked fine on all our previous TVs, including a Samsung curved model and a Sharp LC50LE751K

The picture and sound on our new Sony is blurred/buzzing.

The red/white/yellow connector from the Wii uses a 3 into 1 adaptor into the yellow AV socket on the Sony - this is how it connected to the Samsung (now gone) and the Sharp, which we still have and still connects fine to the Wii.

Any help is most welcome please!

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rooobb — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:38:35 GMT

The connections may be different between different tvs. Check it out with a meter if you have one or get in touch with a service centre

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royabrown2 — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:34:51 GMT

Hi @JL2020 @rooobb

When all else fails, read the manual 🙂

The fat, multi-country, and largely useless Reference Guide you got with the TV contains the diagram at the bottom of this post (just item 2; ignore the item 3 snippet at the bottom) which shows you the requirement for the cable that goes into the relevant socket on the Sony TV; it’s a 3.5mm four-pole adaptor, which you should compare with the adaptor you have now. If that is not 3.5mm, or not four-pole, you need a new adaptor cable for the Sony.

It doesn’t need to be made by Sony, but it does need pole 3 to be ground, so check this, if you can.

As does your existing adaptor, even if it is 3.5mm four-pole. We might hope these are standard pin outs, but they might not be.

A continuity tester, or multimeter, can be useful here if you have one; there should not be a circuit between pole 3 and any of the input sockets on the adaptor. But if you haven’t got one, you can use the process of elimination below.

As long as pole 3 is ground, you can try the other pins one by one. Start with the yellow-ended cable from the Wii, and try it in each input on the adaptor until you get a picture. After which, get the white-ended cable from the Wii and plug that into whichever remaining input makes the sound come out on the left. And plug the red-ended cable into the remaining one, and make sure sound now comes out on the right as well.

If one of these inputs doesn’t give a signal, then it’s going to pole 3, and the adaptor, even if 3.5mm 4-pole, isn’t suitable, and you will need the Sony one or an exact equivalent.

If it does give all 3 signals, though, then we might hope that each cable winds up plugged into the same-coloured input on the adaptor; but if not, it doesn’t matter, except you will have to make a note of what goes where.

Please let us know how you get on!

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