Maybe there is nothing you can do with your new HDMI TV?
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You just brought your new HDMI TV home, and something just doesn't work. There is something wrong with the color scheme, even after you've tried adjusting the brightness, the contrast, the gamma, all the tint, hue, sharpness, and all the other possible settings. It just looks too green, or too red, or too blue, no matter what you do.
Or maybe the wi-fi doesn't work, no matter what you try. Download new drivers on all the connecting equipment, reset your router, erase and reload all your router software... Or maybe the graphics are just unclear, nothing like what you saw on display at the store. It is too grainy, or dark, or washed out. Or maybe there seems to be a problem with the cable connections... But you have tried everything. Maybe you even called your neighbor who knows everything about electronic gadgets. He came over and spent three hours trying to help you make your HDMI TV work, just as you had expected it to work, right out of the box. He couldn't even fix the problem, and it cost you seven beers. He just wiped the sweat off his brow, drank his last swig, handed you the empty, and shrugged in disbelief that what should have been such an easy HDMI TV setup wasn't so.
Sometimes there is nothing you can do with your HDMI TV. You have a defective product and need to look to the warranty, or check to see if your HDMI TV has a TV recall.
Look to your HDMI TV warranty
Let's face it. You bought your HDMI TV and you rightfully expected it to work right out of the box. If you spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on something, it is supposed to serve you. You are not supposed to serve it. So, if you have done all you reasonable can do to make your HDMI TV work and have done nothing but fail or make things worse, just put the darned thing back in the box, put it back in your car, open the garage door, get in your car, and drag the defective equipment back to the store. Why? Assuming what you have just purchased is new and not refurbished, you have a warranty. Let the store you bought the HDMI TV from figure out the problem. Heck they can even come to your house and fix the problem if it will be FREE service they are offering. You have the TV warranty. Give the store a few options, but ultimately the store's options are to fix your HDMI TV, to give you an new one, to give you a refund, or to send you home with a different HDMI TV make and model. You will often be surprised how the replacement just works right out of the box!
Research to see if your HDMI TV has been recalled
Maybe your HDMI TV is old, so the warranty is expired. You bought it from a friend, or via the classifieds, or a rummage or yard sale. Whatever means through which you procured the thing, you don't have a warranty. In this case, once you have done all you can reasonably do to make your HDMI TV work, and not even your nerdy neighbor can get the thing to look or work right, look to see if the thing has been recalled. You will be amazed by how often your HDMI TVs problems are related to a defect that is common among your make and model. So what do you do? Just look on the back of your HDMI television and jot down the manufacturer, and the name, make and model of your HDMI equipment. Write down the serial number too. Next, go log on to the Internet and go to the manufacturer's web site. You may find that your HDMI TV has been recalled, and the problem isn't that you and your neighbor aren't smart enough to figure out the problem. Instead, you are dealing with a manufacturing defect. After all, there was a reason you got the thing so cheap from a yard sale or the classifieds!
