What brand/model receivers are people using with this PJ?
Since purchase - about 8 months ago - the 7900 has experienced a couple dozen intermittent power losses. It's very unpredictable, sometimes going as long as 100 hours without any problems, sometimes twice in the same viewing session. The projector will just flick off (not power down properly), and then 20-30 seconds later the fan will come on for the cool down, like it's supposed to in the event of momentary power interruption, though there havn't been any power outages, and it's also plugged into a UPS that hasn't had to come on yet either. The Sony Black Pearl it's replaced never had a similar issue. But the Denon 3808 loses sound momentarily every time it happens as well, suggesting something in the HDMI connection could be triggering it, assuming when it happens some time of backfeed from the HDMI handshake isn't causing the AVR audio to cut out too. I can't ever repeat it, by replaying the same part of the film, were the power loss occured. But that doesn't necessarily mean anything either, as HDMI signal hiccups from layer changes and such, often don't repeat the second time through - though, that too was an extreme rarity with the Sony Black Pearl/Denon 3808 combo.
Mitsubishi thinks it's a PS3 or AVR setting issue, but they haven't been any help troubleshooting it beyond that, unable to do so much as suggest what settings to look at. As such, I've been pretty much in the dark, turning off this feature and that for the past 8 months, while getting the runaround from Mitsubishi customer support. It's happened once while playing a game on the PS3, but the problem has been overwhelmingly with BD movie playback (old and new releases). I thought I finally had it, between upgrading the Denon AVRs firmware (which had never been updated), switching from PS3 signal decoding to bitstreaming for AVR decoding (something I'd gotten away from about the time studios started watermarking their audio, as I began getting occasional popping sounds when bitstreaming at the time, but not from PCM, supposedly because the PS3's firmware was newer) and disabling any automatic internet connectivity when playing BDs. But after another 100 or so hours it's now started again and there's not really anything left to turn off that isn't integral to the systems performance. So, as Mitsubishi is reluctant to look into it until I've completely ruled out the other components in my system, I'm looking to upgrade AVRs, since the Denon would be the most likely culprit, if it's not a problem with the projector itself. It's probably not the best thing having a 3D capable PS3 and 3D capable projector, with a non-3D capable AVR in between anyway, even though I didn't buy the Mits for 3D.
My shortlist of AVRs include the Denon 4000, Onkyo 929 and 818, and Marantz 7008 for their support of Audyssey XT32. But anyone who's had experience with other models from those brands, successfully paired with this projector, would ease my mind too.