Apple TV does not show up on TV screen

Had my Apple TV for a few months, been used lots. Recently it no longer shows up on my TV, I have an LG TV which just flashes no signal across the screen. On a few occasions I've been able to unplug everything, plug it all back in and it would work perfectly again but it's now to the point where I can't get anything to work. Have also tried reseting Apple TV by holding menu and down, also tried doing the resolution changing by holding menu and up, every so often in the resolution changing, I see the Menu pop up in weird colours for about a second but nothing permanent.
I also have my PS3 connected to my TV, also using HDMI cable, this works perfectly fine.
Anyone have any ideas what might be the issue and how to solve it?

I've tried the same HDMI cable with my PS3 and it works fine so I'm pretty certain that's not the problem.
That won't necessarily tell you much, as a minimum you might want to try the PS3 cable with the Apple TV, if you have other cables, try them.

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B:   Is Apple TV shown under connected devices while it is connected to the Wi-Fi netwok? I can see my Iphone under devices when I connect it with a cable to my iMac. So I know that my devices section is working. I simply fear that my Appl TV is not showing up brcause of existing issues.
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