Hey Guys. First I want to say that I have searched the different topics and have not found the answer I am looking for. I've had the KDSXXA3000 for about 5 months now and I absolutely love it. The only game that I am having issues with is Rock Band. I can't for the life of me get the microphone to match up right with the beat of the music. I've tried all different calibrations and have been unsuccesful thus far. It just sounds like theres a delay. When I sing or talk into the mic, you can tell there is a delay with the voice. Does anyone have the proper calibration settings with the Sony KDSXXA3000? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Do you have it hooked up directly to the TV? Or are you using surround sound and an AVR?

I have the 360 hooked up to the tv via an HDMI Cable. I also have a 5.1 surround sound system that is hooked up to the tv via a Optical Cable. That way, I don't have to switch inputs on the Surround Sound Receiver. Anything that is hooked up to the tv will get the surround sound. I've tried with the surround sound off and just the tv speakers. I've also tried it with the tv speakers all the way down and just the surround sound speakers on. I'm mainly just looking to find out what other people have their rock band settings at who are using the same tv as me.

I noticed that there is a slight delay when you have rockband set to output dolby digital.. when you have it put out stereo the delay isn't as bad.. I do believe that the ps3 takes a few milliseconds to process the audio from the microphone as well.

You are right. When I switched it over from dolby digital to stereo, the echoe that I was hearing is gone. Unfortunately the delay is still there.

If I remember correctly, your model is an LCoS, SXRD. If so, be aware that prolonged periods of playing Rock Band, just like Guitar Hero will cause burn in. The static position of the edges of the fret board are the culprit. You may want to read the posts in the XBR2 owners thread. There are 2 back to back, one from an XBox owner and one from me, a PS3 owner. Should be on the last, or next to last page of the thread.

I know this thread is months stale but thought I'd answer anyway just in case it was helpful.

I have the 360 hooked up to the tv via an HDMI Cable. I also have a 5.1 surround sound system that is hooked up to the tv via a Optical Cable. That way, I don't have to switch inputs on the Surround Sound Receiver.

First, hate to be the one to break this to you but you are NOT getting Dolby Digital from the Xbox 360 with this setup. The A3000 will only output 2.0 sound through the optical out when getting input from HDMI. (It does output Dolby Digital when tuning in digital TV channels.)

Second, I'm not surprised you have a lot of vocal lag with this setup; I did too, when I tried it. I think the A3000 introduces a great deal of lag passing audio from HDMI to its outputs. No lag setting in the game will fix this. The game processes the audio signal it gets from the mic and outputs it again as fast as it can, but if some other component in the system is introducing noticeable audio lag, the game can't do anything to correct that. The only way to fix this is to send audio directly from the 360 to your AV receiver, and not go through the TV.

If you want to absolutely minimize audio lag in Rock Band, you need to use regular old-fashioned RCA stereo audio cables. If you insist on Dolby Digital, just be aware that this will add some delay, even when connecting the 360 directly to the AVR. Whether it's too much delay or not is a matter of personal taste.

I have a older Mitsu RP and here is my setup.

Component video to TV, optical connection to my AV Reciever for Dolby.

Since the Xbox360 only puts out 1080i anyway, you should pick up the HD component cables and connect directly to your TV and then attach the optical (or analog if you want) to your reciever.

Also, if you have Rockband 2 (and I highly recommend it), and one of the new instruments, there is an automatic calibration that works really well too, both sound and video lag is calibrated in 10 secods.

If I remember correctly, your model is an LCoS, SXRD. If so, be aware that prolonged periods of playing Rock Band, just like Guitar Hero will cause burn in.

I don't believe that to be true . . . non CRT-based RPTV's are not succeptible to burn in AFAIK . . .