Problems of the modern world: HDMI handshakes

So, having gotten myself a functioning PSN ID and all, I decided to download some demos for games I've been interested in. The first one was for Batman: Arkham Asylum, and that worked well enough (great game coming!). The next one was for FUEL.

FUEL demo installed. Play game. Screen goes fucking haywire. The colours kinda "inverted". There's no white colour. All white is black and all black, is well, still black. So it's nigh on impossible to see what's going on on screen.

After some fiddling, I manage to exit the game. No manner of sifting through Settings can change this predicament. I pause my Downloads (FFVII was available as DLC) and reboot. Problem remains.
As a side-note: I am so glad I had installed the winter-nature background theme, as the standard theme would've made it impossible to see anything.

What to do? Well, first, I back-up my game-data, in case I have to reformat the HDD. You never know, and I certainly don't want to lose my 40+ game hours of TESIV. LEGO Indy and Assassin's Creed I can replay, no probs. Same with Prince of Persia. But not TESIV characters.

I go online to check for people with similar problems, as Google is my friend.

Found this:



I tried that and lo and behold! I got my screen back. I had to switch the TV off, not just flit between the input devices (tried that). Turn TV off and then back on.

This is what is called an HDMI handshake-issue, apparently. Essentially, the TV and the PS3 don't understand each other and havoc happens. I'm lucky it could be solved this easily.

Still, it's annoying as feth!

NOTE: I have yet to try all my games since this problem occurred. I'm using ver. 2.80 firmware, but that shouldn't be the problem. It was distinctly an HDMI issue, as the box seemed fine otherwise, downloads continued but the colours went crazy.
TESIV seems to be fine now.