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Hdmi Dropouts

Posted by Stryder (A) on June 17, 2011 at 23:50:01

I use an hdmi cable between a Sony blu-ray player and a Pioneer receiver without a problem. The picture and surround sound are great. I have another hdmi cable between the cable company's HD box and a Sony Bravia TV. It works great. I use another hdmi cable from the Pioneer's "hdmi out" up to the Sony TV. All of this works great.

The other day I brought a Samsung universal player from the storage room and hooked it into the system. It is an unlocked unit that I bought in 2005. I have a large stash of Zone 2 movies I accumulated after living overseas for several years. I had used the Samsung player previously using the coaxial connections to hook-up the surround sound. It worked great with that configuration, but it does have an hdmi input and I want to use that so I hooked up a cable between the Samsung and the Pioneer receiver.

At first a message came up that "hdmi audio is not supported" even though the picture looked good. I went into the player's audio setup menu and saw that it was set to "bitstream" so I changed it to "pcm" and immediately got sound. But there is something wrong with the sound. It will play for about 15 or 20 seconds and then the sound drops out for a couple of seconds before coming back up. The cycle repeats endlessly, I guess, because I usually give up trying to get it to work after trying every menu setting. I tried plugging the cable into the TV instead of the receiver, but got the same result.

Is there something I'm missing that would be causing these dropouts, either in the Samsung player or in the hdmi cable?

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