Weird a/v problem
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I have a Panasonic blue ray connecting into an onkyo av amp via hdmi and the amp connecting to my tv via hdmi.
Had no problems but yesterday tried to watch a blue ray and could not get anything ,the tv said no signal and the blue ray showed an error message 'u73' which in the manual means faulty hdmi cable.
Ahh easy to fix I thought ,so I swap the hdmi cable,nothing changes.i then run the hdmi cake straight into the tv and it works fine the picture and sound come up,so it's not the cable.
I then put the cable from the blue ray into another hdmi input on the amp..as I am now thinking the hdmi connection at rear of amp must be faulty,but again nothing happens .
I checked that the blue ray is set up to connect through the amp,and I have checked all my amp input settings.
Anyone any idea what it could be?
Had no problems but yesterday tried to watch a blue ray and could not get anything ,the tv said no signal and the blue ray showed an error message 'u73' which in the manual means faulty hdmi cable.
Ahh easy to fix I thought ,so I swap the hdmi cable,nothing changes.i then run the hdmi cake straight into the tv and it works fine the picture and sound come up,so it's not the cable.
I then put the cable from the blue ray into another hdmi input on the amp..as I am now thinking the hdmi connection at rear of amp must be faulty,but again nothing happens .
I checked that the blue ray is set up to connect through the amp,and I have checked all my amp input settings.
Anyone any idea what it could be?
It could be the amp, it could also be the dvd player, it could be just a combination of the hardware. it could also be the 'digital cliff edge' that is hdmi.
Have you connected the Onkyo to the Internet and tried a system up date. The has been Onkyo issues in the past.
HDMI is an absolute night mare, because it is a digital signal and a complicated / multiplexed at that you have no way of knowing how close you ever were to it not working.
So it could have worked, just, and due to normal use and system degradation it has just crossed the magical point of not working.
Hth.
V.
Have you connected the Onkyo to the Internet and tried a system up date. The has been Onkyo issues in the past.
HDMI is an absolute night mare, because it is a digital signal and a complicated / multiplexed at that you have no way of knowing how close you ever were to it not working.
So it could have worked, just, and due to normal use and system degradation it has just crossed the magical point of not working.
Hth.
V.
I had a similar HDMI problem. See here.
What I did to fix it was to buy an HDMI cable marketed as a shielded cable. This worked fine as it previously had with a standard cheap cable off eBay. The cable that I thought was damage worked fine with my Blu Ray player, fine Media Centre PC to TV, just caused issues when the Amp was the middle man.
Three other new cables non shielded disn't work.
So try a shielded HDMI cable and see if you're in luck. Not much more expensive.
What I did to fix it was to buy an HDMI cable marketed as a shielded cable. This worked fine as it previously had with a standard cheap cable off eBay. The cable that I thought was damage worked fine with my Blu Ray player, fine Media Centre PC to TV, just caused issues when the Amp was the middle man.
Three other new cables non shielded disn't work.
So try a shielded HDMI cable and see if you're in luck. Not much more expensive.
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