Pioneer VSX-1120 TXH HDMI V1.4 Receiver Owners' Thread - Page 164

Interesting, so the Apple TV device works by being plugged into the USB of any device in my set up? And can I use it to play music from the iPhone without turning my display on?

No, it doesn't use USB at all. It's uses your Wi-Fi network for everything.

And yes, you can use it to play music from your iPhone without turning on the display. And it's playing your music without the compression used by Bluetooth.

I must say, however, that I recently bought a Bose SoundLink, mainly to play music from my iPhone when I'm on the road (but I'm actually using it a lot around the house). This little speaker sounds great even though it uses Bluetooth.

I got one when it was on sale as well, it works fairly well - one gripe is that my iPhone doesn't autodetect it as a device, I have to go in and manually turn it on - but after that, works as expected. I haven't used it in months though, since I now have my HTPC with my music library on it, so prefer to play back through that.

Well I got a deal on the bt-100 for $30 on eBay. After an epic fight I got it to stream music, works great and sounds great. I downloaded the icontrolav2012 app for the iPhone which claims to work with the 1122(I love that Pioneer is too incompetent to update their apps, so they create new ones lol), and it won't work. I have my receiver hooked up to a hardwire from the router, but I do have wifi.

Can anyone tell me how to make this work? If it even can. It would be nice to control the receiver from the phone entirely.

no, that app will not work with an 1120...

You need to download the original icontrolav app. I have it on my iPhone and it works fine. I rarely use though as I have dropout issues with video if I connect the reciever to the Internet. Hope that helps.

Just for fun I tried all of the iControlAV apps, none work. No biggie really, just created a new activity in the Harmony. Though it's pretty lame I have to connect the phone in settings every time I use it.

That's odd the new version works fine for me. I was having issues with older version where it would have problems connecting. I also have a harmony remote but I like the app if I want to control the volume when I don't have line of sight or I am in another room. Did you try the right ip address as my router tends to reset every once in a while and I have to figure out which address to use.

I used the one displayed on the reciever... if that was the right one, it didn't work.

Hmm that's the issue I had in the previous version. One has to manually over write the IP address in the receiver (making sure it was available and not being used by other devices) One quick way to test it is by typing it in the browser on your PC on the same network so it takes you to the built in browser app for controlling the 1120. Then put that one in the app and it works every time.

Hi,

Last night I tried to connect my laptop to the receiver so I could watch HBOGO on my LCD TV and listen over the surround sound. I connected the computer to the HDMI5 port on the 1120 and got a great picture on my LCD. Unfortunately no sound was being output by my receiver. I switched to the digital output for sound on my computer and when I tested it got ringing sounds through the receiver, but even after selecting that output as the default, no sound through my speakers. had to watch with the laptop speakers which was less than ideal. Any help out there?

Thanks

I encountered the same problem yesterday.
You need to switch your default audio to HDMI via control panel on the PC. I set the audio to PCM on my receiver during the test. The painful part is one has to switch the default back to the laptop speakers when done.

Encountered a problem with my 1120 Saturday night. I was watching Super 8 on Epix and 3 times the receiver shut down and the red HDMI light was flashing. I have had this receiver for 1.5 years with no issues. I did not get any message about overheating. It is in a cabinet, I opened the door to the cabinet and it has not happened again. It is acting normally now(with cabinet door open). All speakers are connected using banana plugs, no bare wires. Any ideas? I was hoping that it was just the aggressive soundtrack on Super 8 combined with the heat of the enclosed cabinet.

I watched Super 8 again and it shut down at the same place in the film, when the train is just passing the station before the crash. I have not experienced any shutdowns with any other source material so maybe it is just a problem with that part of the recording. The volume was at about -25 when it shut down, still puzzling. I think I will try recording that movie again and see if I get the same results. It was recorded on my Dish 722 from Epix2 HD.

Something seems off I am assuming its a LFE heavy scene as far as I can recall so something is overloading the Receiver. Is your wiring OK (You mentioned Banana Plugs but a strand or two might be loose) I do get a cut sound once in a while when there is a huge explosion on the screen I am also using banana plugs. I do play it quite high though almost -5 DB so -25 db shouldn't be a problem. I am assuming you are using the dreaded HDMI?
Can you connect your system with an optical cable?
Also can you try a cold start (keep your AVR shut for a couple of hours and start the movie at the same spot when you turn the AVR on)
I did watch Super 8 and recall a similar issue but I was playing the movie loud.
Otherwise I would replicate the same issue with just the front speakers plugged in, then front and centre and then rears. That way you can narrow it down what trips it off. Keep us posted.

Why is HDMI dreaded? I have been using HDMI for my 722 DVR, my BDP-320 Blu-ray player and between the receiver and TV ever since I have had the reciever (Dec. 2010) with absolutely no issues whatsoever, no handshake issues ever.

Well if you switch between resolutions there have been lock in issues with my DVR. So now everything HD is set to 1080i on the DVR. Could be my equipment i.e. TV or DVR but I just gave up on 720p and now all HD signals are 1080i on the DVR and 480i for SDTV.
The previous Denon had the same problem (HDMI 1.3) where it would go crazy if switching resolutions and I ended up with just connecting everything via component cable being converted to HDMI in the end.

My DVR has been set to output 1080i since I got it 3.5 years ago. Everything is output at 1080i, HD and SD so no issues there. Blu-ray is set to auto (1080p24 for blu-ray and 480p for dvd) and have had no issues there. I don't switch settings on components, set them and forget them.

I recently connected Zone 2 speakers to my 1120. When I connect an old ipod nano to the usb port, I can control my song selection through the display on my ipod.

But when I connect a flash drive to the usb port, in Zone 2 I don't get a display of my music files on either the tv or the avr. So, I can't make a selection from the songs stored on the flash drive. No such problem with Zone 1 since both the tv and avr display the music stored on the flash drive, allowing me to scroll through and make my choice. Is there a way to get a display of my flash drive music files when I'm using Zone 2? Am I missing something obvious?

Thank you.

I have VSX-1121-k receiver and I have a problem making 3D work 100%
I cannot find anywhere in documentation which HDMI revision is my receiver..

When I try to run 3D content via receiver:
- From Cable Box the movies that are "side-by-side" 3D type work fine,
- From Comcast Cable the content created as "Over-Under" type - the video comes through, but the sound is not coming through (it is all choppy and unrecognizable). So far this happens only with 3D content from Comcast - the TV does not switch into 3D automatically - some pictures are side-by-side and some are over/under and I have to select manually on my TV which type is being used.
- 3D movies that I get from VUDU - so far work fine as the TV switches to the 3D mode automatically and I do not have to select the type of 3D.
- The few BluRay 3D Discs play fine with auto switching.

I tried to replace all HDMI cables - this did not help.

However, If I connect my cable box directly to TV input and use output sound from TV into my VSX-1121-K receiver - it works fine for all content even the over/under- (but I have to manually reconnect the HDMI connections to get this to work)..

My setup is:
- My Cable company is Comcast
- cable box is PCR-110C (I also tried to swap boxes, but it did not help) - connected to VSX-1121-k by HDMI
- Sony PS3 connected tp VSX via HDMI Cable
- ROKU - Connected to VSX via HDMI
- Cable box connected to TV via HDMI - TV is Sharp LC70-LE73

I would like to get help to find solution to have system working as intended with all switching done by the Pioneer A/V receiver.

The only solution I can think of (not desirable) is to get an HDMI splitter to split the output of the cable box into two - one to TV directly and one into Cable box, so I could switch to TV direct mode if I want to play the 3D content that was created as "Over/Under"

I looked through the postings on this board and a lot have to do with various types of 3D content not being transferred properly with HDMI v1.3 equipment - but I think I have HDMI v1.4 in VSX-1121-K - I am correct?
Hope there are some settings that I overlooked that would fix it.

Alright, I got the 1120 and to be sure. Can I use my old Yamaha DVD/SACD player for CD music? When I hook-up the rca cables for each speaker from the DVD to the AVR, I can't control the sound level. If this is true what kind of cable should I use? There is no HDMI for the old player.

My Blu-ray is only single disc and my DVD is 5 disc, so I would like to use it.

You could try using the digital output of the dvd/cd player, either optical or coax whichever is available. The analog connections should work although the 1120 may default to HDMI and you may need to go into the audio setup and turn on the analog inputs.

On another note, my 1120 has not repeated its self-shutdown since I watched the movie Super 8. It has been several weeks and I have watched a variety of material at moderate to loud volumes and have not been able to repeat it. I am assuming that is was something in the soundtrack of that particular DVR-recorded movie that caused the amps to overload. I have since purchased the blu-ray of this same movie but have not had time to watch it. I will report back when I have had time to check it out and see if it does the same thing at the same point in the movie with the blu-ray

Alright my AVS geniuses! I encountered a very troubling problem tonight with my 1120.

I was watching a bluray on my PS3 this evening, like I have many many times. I was watching it through the HDMI 1 port. At the end of the movie I got a static like the classic "TV snow" then the screen went black. I restarted my PS3 and I still had a black screen but I could hear sound. I again restarted and held down the power button to see if I could reset the video settings and got the video to come through but no sound this time. I then tried plugging the ps3 into the BD HDMI port and it worked just fine, sound and video. I then plugged my Xbox into HDMI 1 and only got video.

Is this a dying/dead HDMI 1 or am I missing something? What a bummer this, I've only had this beast 1.5 years and have hardly moved it
Any help or info is greatly appreciated!

"The analog connections should work although the 1120 may default to HDMI and you may need to go into the audio setup and turn on the analog inputs."

I did this and the weird thing is, I get sound and it sounds good but I can't turn the volume up or down (it stays at one level). The sound quality isn't as good with the digital cable.
Just to be clear I'm going into the 1120 pre-outs. It seems like this doesn't work right.

The pre-outs are just that OUTS, they are for connect external amplifiers. The 1120 does not have 5.1 analog pre-amp INPUTS. Your choices are HDMI, L+R analog RCA, or optical or coaxial digital, that is it.

I did find out why my 1120 was randomly shutting down. Apparently my cats have been chasing each other behind the audio equipment, lol. I found the banana plugs for the center channel and the right main speaker partially pulled out. The upper plugs were close enough to the lower ones that when bass heavy content played I believe that the vibrations from the sub caused the plugs to touch.

The Blu-ray of Super 8 was the first movie to shut my system down. Then it was Fight Club, the whole movie was fine till they wreck that car into the barriers. Of course I was running it pretty loud.

With some testing of the system I found out it was my center speaker, but this was after I bought the 1120 and replaced my Dennon 5700 (which I loved).
And of course my wife couldn't understand that our whole system needed an upgrade for Blu-ray's HDMI to get the HD sound settings.

Anyone have any helpful information for me??

Sure sounds like a bad port - did you try a different HDMI cable?

Not yet, but the cable works fine in another port. Have the 1120s been known to have ports go out? This is disappointing.