Error Message

Couple of things:

1. LG "Staff" tells one user that his HDMI cable may not be HDCP compliant and to try a diff. cable.

2. Multiple reboots/restarts and cable unplugs/replugs might solve the problem, as described here (HDMI FAQ link included).

You might also want to experiment with the order you your turn things on, for example do you get the error if you turn your DVDR on first and then the TV?
HDMI, nice when it works.......a PIA when it doesn't......

Yeah, there is more handshaking going on with HDMI than in a Masonic hall. And you had better get it right!

I dearly wish the manufacturers and designers had gotten it right, so we wouldn't have these issues. Then there is the whole 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3A, 1.4 and now 1.4A varients of HDMI to contend with, re issues like backward compatability.

See if your LG has something called "HDMI Control" or "Sync" or "CEC" that turns both units on simultaneously with one remote? That requires HDMI communication so it should work properly every time?

As they used to say in the Early Days of the Internet, ROTFL!!

I don't have a lot of components hooked up via HDMI right now ("only" 2 inputs on the main TV), but when I fire them up, I'm always wondering if today will be the day the TV says, "Sorry pal, don't know ya!"

Other than the Wii, every component I have is hooked up via HDMI 1.3 direct to the Plasma or into the AVR and on to the Plasma. No CEC control on anything. Just a Harmony remote that turns everybody on and off as needed. It all just works and has from the start.

And I have to say that despite all the "Masonic" handshaking that goes on, with a few rare times that I had to shut everything off and start again, my Sharp LCD and source devices usually end up finding each other.

But since I watch mostly SD programming, a lot of the PQ benefit of an HDMI connection is lost on me!

My devices are always handshaking. My TiVo is set for native output so every time I change the channel it communicates with the display to tell it if it's sending 1080i, 720p or 480. I think quality components that implement HDMI properly will have few problems.

The problem with that is, as I aluded to earlier, that the components in question have to be very modern to keep up with all the HDMI standards. My earliest HD television is no onlger totally compliant with the DirecTV reveivers, because I occasionally get a message about the display not being able to show the content, and that I neeed to disconnect the DHMI cable and use component connections instead! Really? If I unplug the HDMI, the problem goes away.