The "Official" Onkyo TX-SR608 Thread (No Price Talk) - Page 161

Originally Posted by bikeczar


OK, hope someone can help me with this and I will try and explain it as best as I can.

I have my Onkyo TX-SR608 playing out to my Optima HD66 projector. This works great for watching any and everything I have hooked up to it. Mac Mini, ATT Uverse, WD Live, Wii game system. BUT if I want to listen to itunes from the Mac mini or stream Pandora from the WD Live TV +, I have to power up the projector.

Rather than powering up the projector and killing bulb life, I would like to hook up a basic 7 monitor to view the video out put and play itunes or anything that does not need to be projected onto the 45"x85" screen.

I tried using the Monitor Out RCA jack with two different 7 LCD color monitors but no signal is ever picked up.

Is Monitor out not be available when HDMI is primary connection?

Is it a resolution issue?

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated

this would make Home Theater life and wife very happy

Adam

Originally Posted by bikeczar

I have my Onkyo TX-SR608 playing out to my Optima HD66 projector. This works great for watching any and everything I have hooked up to it. Mac Mini, ATT Uverse, WD Live, Wii game system. BUT if I want to listen to itunes from the Mac mini or stream Pandora from the WD Live TV +, I have to power up the projector.

Rather than powering up the projector and killing bulb life, I would like to hook up a basic 7 monitor to view the video out put and play itunes or anything that does not need to be projected onto the 45"x85" screen.

I tried using the Monitor Out RCA jack with two different 7 LCD color monitors but no signal is ever picked up.

Is Monitor out not be available when HDMI is primary connection?

Is it a resolution issue?

Originally Posted by mrperrect1976

my front centre speakers sound really tinny when watching rocky horror picture show, i have the onkyo 608 and tannoy sfx 5.1, had for last few days, am happy with pic but as im new to sorround need help setting it up properly

Originally Posted by mrperrect1976

is it normal for my 608 to keep clicking when changing sounds modes???

Originally Posted by carageuw

Unfortunately yes.

Originally Posted by mrperrect1976

how do i check that>>???

Originally Posted by geogan

Anyway I have a problem with my TR608 and fat PS3 playing "StarTrek -The motion picture" Bluray which has a 7.1 track. The problem is the audio is coming out as 5.1 instead (according to onscreen menu).

I have set the PS3 to PCM instead of bitstream so the PS3 does the decoding and sends multichannel audio to the TR-608. (fat PS3 can't bitstream 7.1 modes)

The problem is when I look at the onscreen audio menu it is saying input:7.1 but output 5.1?!??!

Why would it only output 5.1 out of amp when the input is 7.1?
Also I can't select any of the 5.1->7.1 THX modes because the input is already 7.1! I can only cycle between THX cinema, THX game, THX music on remote.

Any ideas?

p.s. I have 7.2 speakers set up.

Originally Posted by urBan_dK

To eliminate the simple case, do you know for sure the Onkyo has detected and is using your last two speakers or is it possible it is still only seeing the 5.1?

You should be able to set the output to "direct" and the receiver will not change anything. If you can, see if that will output 7.1

Originally Posted by geogan

I went into the speaker setup and noticed that the two surround back speakers were not showing in diagram, and also Audysey DSX was greyed out in one of the setup options. I couldn't figure out what caused this to happen. I checked back and wiring was fine. Searched everywhere for something that might have disabled them but nothing found. Then I noticed a little light on front of amp. I took a closer look and it was Zone 2 light on (which i don't have connected to anything). I read manual and found cause - when Zone 2 is on all Front wide, high, and back channels are disabled. I never turned that on myself - I think a certain baby who plays on a mat in front of amp every day may have pressed the Zone 2 ON button (i never noticed it myself). Manual also said it uses more power in standby with it on - it could have been on for weeks - i seem to remember light on when i turned off amp power every night but took no notice of it!...

Originally Posted by hyp3rlink

Hi guys,

I picked up a the Onkyo TX-SR608 last week and hooked it up to the PS3, I didn't really do any calibration or settings change and just out of the box it was working quite nicely with both games and blu-rays. Last night I had some issues with the playing of Underworld blu-ray, the video was lagging behind the audio and it was bad enough to be unwatchable. I searched around the net and found that the video processor in the 608 could be the cause of the problem and did the trick of turning off the video processing by holding down vcr and pressing return. This seem to have taken care of the problem but as expected I do not have OSD now.

Also, that was the only blu-ray (out of 5 tested) that had this lip-sync issue.


Can someone please explain what exactly is the video processing in the 608 supposed to do? I mean, are there going to be certain cases when turning it ON may provide better output on the screen (perhaps while playing on wii?)

Thanks.

Originally Posted by tulanejosh

I did a bunch of internet searching and everything i saw was at least 3 months old... Does the TX-SR608 work with Directv 3d yet?

Originally Posted by drhankz

I have NO CLUE. I own (3) PS3s for Blu-Ray playback and have
never ever seen any audio delays with three different AVRs and
one of them is a 608.

Originally Posted by hyp3rlink

wow, that makes it even more wierd. I hope it is just one of the uncommon cases that happened with one particular blu-ray.

Originally Posted by hyp3rlink

Hi guys,

I picked up a the Onkyo TX-SR608 last week and hooked it up to the PS3, I didn't really do any calibration or settings change and just out of the box it was working quite nicely with both games and blu-rays. Last night I had some issues with the playing of Underworld blu-ray, the video was lagging behind the audio and it was bad enough to be unwatchable. I searched around the net and found that the video processor in the 608 could be the cause of the problem and did the trick of turning off the video processing by holding down vcr and pressing return. This seem to have taken care of the problem but as expected I do not have OSD now.

Also, that was the only blu-ray (out of 5 tested) that had this lip-sync issue.


Can someone please explain what exactly is the video processing in the 608 supposed to do? I mean, are there going to be certain cases when turning it ON may provide better output on the screen (perhaps while playing on wii?)

Thanks.