Hi all:
I tried to post on the big home theater forum but for whatever reason they are blocking me...might be because I haven't posted in so long...anyway hoping for help from the resident HT experts.
We just completed a major home renovation and added a nice sized master bedroom suite. My wife was into having as little furniture as possible so that led to installing a nice home theater system to avoid clutter on the floors. The old, "well honey the walls are open we might as well...."
So a new Panasonic 42" 600U Plasma and while the walls were all open anyway we put front and rear in wall JBL surround speakers, a compact powered Yamaha subwoffer, Yamaha in wall center channel. All powered by a really nice Yamaha A/V receiver, HTR 5990, see it at this link:
http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/productdetail.html?CNTID=200015&CTID=5000400
I bought this receiver b/c it processes both audio and video with HDMI in/out and upconverting.
Also in the wall is a 50ft HDMI cable which now connects the receiver and TV (this is important b/c now I suspect there is a problem). Comcast (our cable provider) came yesterday and installed an HD-DVR and connected it to my A/V receiver both via the component video and HDMI connections. I suspected it was only reading the component video connection b/c it wasn't pushing surround sound like HDMI should.
Well then things started happening, the picture kept dropping but the sound stayed on, when I tried to disconnect the Component video I lost everthing and the plasma screen turned green...Clearly it wasn't reading the HDMI signal, it was late I got frustrated and turned it off, then stewing in my bed for an hour.
This morning tried again and got a blue boxed error message on the plasma screen from what component I have no idea that said "the set-top box does not support the HD signal switch to component video" which I did along with some optical cable off of our other setup and just used component and optical and had a good picture and surround sound.
So firstly why wouldn't all of this brand new equipement with top notch connections support a full HDMI run from cable-receiver-tv. I tried switching out the HDMI connection from DVR to receiver but no different. And about 15 minutes later the picture started to drop again but not sound...
This is long and drawn out I know, but can anyone help? If my inwall HDMI is f-ed I'll be seriously bummed as it is going to be really difficult without cutting up brand new walls to get another cable through there...Does anyone have experience trying to connect Comcast equipment to higher end stuff, is the box just not sophisticated enough?
Help, please from the experts...
Thanks
Adam