Hello-

I am trying to connect my new PS3 to my Pioneer VSX-1016 via HDMI, but I'm having trouble getting video to display.

I currently have the 1016 connected to my television via an HDMI to DVI cable. My satellite receiver is connected to the 1016 via an HDMI cable, and the 1016 is connected to the TV via HDMI to DVI. This works perfectly, and I've had no problems with this setup for several months.

Today I purchased a PS3 and wanted to utilize the HDMI switching of the 1016 for connecting it to the TV. I connected the PS3 to the 1016 via HDMI (and optical for audio as the 1016 doesn't support audio via the HDMI connection). I configured the inputs accordingly on the 1016 and turned on everything. I got no picture and no sound. I fiddled with options on the 1016 for a bit, then decided to ensure the PS3 was working and simply used the included composite cable and connected it directly to the TV. I got picture and audio, and configured the PS3 to use HDMI. Again, no picture. Sound worked after configuring the PS3 to use the optical connection.

After a few hours of messing around with it (including buying a new HDMI cable to ensure the old one wasn't bad), I ended up taking the HDMI to DVI cable from the 1016 and using it directly with the PS3. So now the PS3 was connected directly to the TV via HDMI to the TV's DVI connection. This worked perfectly, and the PS3 automatically configured the connection to use 1080i (my TV doesn't support 1080p). I was happy!

Now that the PS3 had the connection configured, I again tried to use the 1016 as an HDMI passthrough, and again I had no luck.

Has anyone had any similar experience with a PS3 when using HDMI passthrough on a receiver? I'm not sure why this would fail, but I'm slowly going a bit crazy trying to get it to work.

Any tips, suggestions, etc, are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Did you try manually deselecting 1080p as an output option on the PS3?

Did you try manually deselecting 1080p as an output option on the PS3?
I couldn't figure out how to manually choose output options for the HDMI connection. I saw how to do it for the component connection, but I didn't see how to do it for the HDMI connection.

What I did do, however, was after the PS3 was connected directly to the TV and 1080i was chosen as the default output, I turned it off and connected it to the 1016 again. The PS3 should have still had the 1080i option set as default. Running it through the 1016 again still produced no picture.

How do I manually deselect 1080p for the HDMI connection?

The issue is probably your reciever and the DVI on the display. The reciever will not send the signal to the display when switching to DVI. Thats what I can tell by what you described. If you can connect directly to the display but not through the reciever than that is the issue. Not all recievers will do pass through with DVI on the display.

What is the model of your display?

The issue is probably your reciever and the DVI on the display. The reciever will not send the signal to the display when switching to DVI. Thats what I can tell by what you described. If you can connect directly to the display but not through the reciever than that is the issue. Not all recievers will do pass through with DVI on the display.

What is the model of your display?
I have a Samsung HLN-5065w.

I currently have my DirecTV HR10-250 connected via HDMI to the 1016, and the 1016 connected to the Samsung TV via the HDMI to DVI cable. This is working perfectly. So I thought I could simply connect the PS3 to the open DVI slot on the 1016 and everything would be good to go. This is why I'm a bit puzzled about why the PS3 isn't working via the HDMI connection.

Hi-

Just trying to bring this thread back to life. I never got it working and really think it should work. Any other ideas?

Thanks.