i have a led samsung tv and when i hook it up it comes in black and white help!!?

ok, first, you have an HDTV, start using HD cables. the Red/White/Yellow are RCA cables and only display in standard definition, you could be getting WAY better picture quality if you used better cables.

As for your black and white problem, it's either a setting on the tv or from whatever source you are pulling video. The Red and White cables control Audio, and the Yellow cable controls video. Your TV being black and white has nothing to do with your cables or how they are plugged in.
 
Re-examine your connections. Check the settings between the equipment, DVD player or whatever, and the TV.
The yellow is composite video and does not support HD.
You will want to use component/RGB or VGA or HDMI for HD.
Sending composite (yellow connector) in the green may produce monochrome (black and white). Sending green output alone into anything, yellow or green will also produce monochrome (where the cables go does matter). Connecting red or blue only to anything usually won't make any picture.
If you are using the composite connection (yellow) you must use the composite output from the device into the composite input on the TV and set the device to composite output if it has such a setting.
Component is the same, you must use red, green, and blue from the RGB outputs to RGB inputs and set the device to output RGB.
There are a few flavors of component video. The most common for analog component video is YPbPr. The green signal isn't really green and carries the luminance (brightness) information, black and white, no color. Some equipment will use the same setting for either or both RGB and VGA outputs.
YPbPr and RGB are often used interchangeably which technically isn't accurate.
 
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