Check this out:
*"How HDCP can mess up HDMI, and how to handle it*
For all the great things about HDMI, it can cause some headaches. The
main culprit is HDCP. Unfortunately, not every "handshake" goes
smoothly, and you could be faced with slow switching speeds, a screen
filled with static, or a signal that flashes on and off. To make matters
worse, it's impossible to know if two products are going to have a
compatibility problem--some devices just don't work together well, even
if they match with other devices flawlessly. The only way to know is to
plug it into your home theater and try it out.
If HDMI compatibility problems are plaguing your home theater, you can
try swapping different products in until you get a better match, but
that is expensive and time-consuming. Cable boxes are notoriously
troublesome HDMI products, and unfortunately you're usually stuck with
whatever box your cable company offers. If you can't fix your problem,
there's no shame in going back to component video. Manufacturers and
salespeople often tout the visual benefits of HDMI over component video,
but the reality is that the difference between HDMI and component video
is pretty small--again, we're betting the majority of viewers would
never notice. The real trade-off is on the audio side, since you'll need
to connect additional digital audio cables (optical or coaxial), or deal
with bulky analog audio cables."
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Yamaha RX-V365
Each component works fine on its own.
--DVD player works via component cables (and not when hooked up via HDMI to
anything).
--Comcast PVR works fine, but not if connected to the Receiver or HDTV via
HDMI. I can get audio via digital optical to the reciever. All works fine if
connected via component cables.
Yes, this sucks. Do you have your component cables switched?
No. I can't get digital audio via the component cables.
What HDMI cable are you using?
A generic cable.
To make things worse, the HDMI audio configuration only
allows selecting
STEREO. No 5.1 surround sound available.
Where is this setting being made? Video card driver?
The audio control in the right hand area of the task bar, or via Sound in
the control panel.
Well, you have a PC in your system that I don't have. I have
an Onkyo
706 receiver. The HD cable receiver plugs in via HDMI, the blu-ray
player plugs in via HDMI, the TIVO series 2 plug in via S-video &
optical. All of this is outputted to the TV via HDMI and it
all works
fine. Perhaps there is some settings that you need to make to tell
things to output over HDMI or such. I know the blu-ray player has
several options that have to do with on-board decoding or output over
bitstream. Since like at one thing component ought to work,
though. Is
there some setting in the receiver? Perhaps it is faulty.
I am pretty sure the problem lies in the HDMI Audio setup on the computer
and the problems associated with HDMI/HDCP DMI interference. Both the
Comcast PVR and DVD player complain about when hooked up via the HDMI. That
is a separate problem, I believe, than the inability to get any sound out of
the new HD 4670 video card.
Still searching for an answer, but may just go back to the old setup which
at least worked even if it didn't give me digital audio from my computer.
Jim Maki
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