skablaw
07-31-08, 11:38 AM
My Denon DVD-5910 has been connected to a Mitsubishi WS-55815 for a year now via HDMI, faithfully outputting phenomenal 1080i (as is the native resolution of a CRT RPTV) from hundreds of DVDs. When I created a dedicated home theater, I purchased an Epson Home Cinema 720 projector, and the Denon continued to flawlessly output the now 720p native resolution when HDMI was run directly to it.
Having had a receiver with no HDMI switching or repeating functionality, I recently upgraded in order to take advantage of some of the new high-resolution audio formats. I purchased a Denon AVR-2808CI, expecting, of course, that this unit would be eminently compatible with the flagship DVD player of its own family. Well, much to my chagrin, the DVD-5910 locks up and stops all operation the very second it is connected to the AVR-2808CI. I can run HDMI directly to the projector and get a great picture, I can run it directly to my other two HDMI compatible displays and get a great picture, but when I try to run it to my receiver, my DENON receiver, the thing flips out and freezes. It won't even allow me to open the disc tray until I've disconnected the HDMI cable and performed a hard reset.
Denon's response to me is that the DVD-5910 is faulty and must be sent in for service at my expense. THEIR flagship DVD player won't interface with THEIR receiver, and I get to fund the R&D to iron out the flaw. Just ridiculous.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
I really took the Denon tech support guy to task and questioned how he could assert that my DVD player is at fault when it functions with no issues when connected to anything except the receiver, but he says since the strange behavior happens in the DVD player that it is at fault, not the receiver.
Having had a receiver with no HDMI switching or repeating functionality, I recently upgraded in order to take advantage of some of the new high-resolution audio formats. I purchased a Denon AVR-2808CI, expecting, of course, that this unit would be eminently compatible with the flagship DVD player of its own family. Well, much to my chagrin, the DVD-5910 locks up and stops all operation the very second it is connected to the AVR-2808CI. I can run HDMI directly to the projector and get a great picture, I can run it directly to my other two HDMI compatible displays and get a great picture, but when I try to run it to my receiver, my DENON receiver, the thing flips out and freezes. It won't even allow me to open the disc tray until I've disconnected the HDMI cable and performed a hard reset.
Denon's response to me is that the DVD-5910 is faulty and must be sent in for service at my expense. THEIR flagship DVD player won't interface with THEIR receiver, and I get to fund the R&D to iron out the flaw. Just ridiculous.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
I really took the Denon tech support guy to task and questioned how he could assert that my DVD player is at fault when it functions with no issues when connected to anything except the receiver, but he says since the strange behavior happens in the DVD player that it is at fault, not the receiver.