Any HD Anywhere experts in the house?

Any HD Anywhere experts in the house?

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teamHOLDENracing

Original Poster:

5,089 posts

267 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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I have been successfully sending an HD signal from a Virgin box in one room to another over Cat 6 cabling using an HDAnywhere extender with IR repeater. Receiving TV was a Samsung UE40C8000 - a good spec TV which is now 6 years old and unfortunately the panel is on the blink.

I bit the bullet and replaced the TV with another Samsung - a 43 inch 7500 series, with a remote connection box. The new TV will not recognise the HDAnywhere signal. I've checked the TV and connector box at the transmitting end and all is good, and I've rebooted the whole lot but to no avail.

Anyone know what I need to do to get it to work? With the old TV I just plugged it in and I was away....

Frustrating!!!!

megaphone

10,725 posts

251 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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Try changing the resolution on the Virgin box, it's in settings somewhere. On Sky boxes I've had to change it to 'auto' to get extenders to work with 4K Tvs.

Does the HD Anywhere have any settings? Dip switches? It may have memorised the EDID from the last TV and needs resetting.

VEX

5,256 posts

246 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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Agree with Megaphone, see if there are any dip switches on the Tx or Rx, some do some dont.

These will set the EDID (messaging between devices) and usually once they have learnt, thats it they are set.

Then try to knock the virgin box down to a lower resolution to see if it will sync up and gradually increase it until if fails.

Also try a different HDMI Input into the screen. Some screens didnt like what HDBT did to the HDMI Signals, not heard about it with Samsung, but it could always be a rouge one.

V.

teamHOLDENracing

Original Poster:

5,089 posts

267 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Well nothing worked with the original set up. HD Anywhere sent out a new receiver box and it worked perfectly. So some issue with the original unit working with the newer TV.

So all sorted and good on HDA for prompt action