Sony STR-DA5300ES - Audio switching problems over HDMI
So I've already had this AVR in the shop for some sort of firmware upgrade. They had it for something like 4 months, which is totally ludicrous and unacceptable - but what could I do? The bloody thing wasn't working. Anyway, now it's been back for 8 months or so and has worked perfectly...almost ;)
The only thing I noticed about the functionality of the AVR after the repair, was that the menu could be overlaid over whatever was playing on the screen. It was now semi-transparent instead of being on a black background. Anyway, the new problem, which has been occurring since I got it back, is that when you switch to a device on one of the HDMI ports, the sound doesn't start with the picture. The picture comes on after a second or two (you can hear the clicks of the switching mechanism - solenoid?), but there's no sound. You have to hit the button on the remote again to make the sound come on.
That may not sound like much effort, but it's really annoying because the first 300 times it happens, you've already put the remote down and gone back to your seat. Now I should point out that the only device I've got hooked up via HDMI is the PS3.
Using the other HDMI inputs doesn't solve the problem. I admit that I haven't tried any other devices over HDMI. I have a Topfield PVR, but you can't run that over HDMI because it reboots itself (don't worry, I've investigated this to death as well), so I have it running extremely reliably over component and optical fibre.
Perhaps the PS3 is partially responsible for the HDMI switching problem.
If anyone else has had this problem or found a solution, please let me know. Apart from that, I have no complaints with this AVR.
The only thing I noticed about the functionality of the AVR after the repair, was that the menu could be overlaid over whatever was playing on the screen. It was now semi-transparent instead of being on a black background. Anyway, the new problem, which has been occurring since I got it back, is that when you switch to a device on one of the HDMI ports, the sound doesn't start with the picture. The picture comes on after a second or two (you can hear the clicks of the switching mechanism - solenoid?), but there's no sound. You have to hit the button on the remote again to make the sound come on.
That may not sound like much effort, but it's really annoying because the first 300 times it happens, you've already put the remote down and gone back to your seat. Now I should point out that the only device I've got hooked up via HDMI is the PS3.
Using the other HDMI inputs doesn't solve the problem. I admit that I haven't tried any other devices over HDMI. I have a Topfield PVR, but you can't run that over HDMI because it reboots itself (don't worry, I've investigated this to death as well), so I have it running extremely reliably over component and optical fibre.
Perhaps the PS3 is partially responsible for the HDMI switching problem.
If anyone else has had this problem or found a solution, please let me know. Apart from that, I have no complaints with this AVR.
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