The "Official" Onkyo TX-NR905 Thread - Page 293

Hello,

I have just bought the Oppo BDP-105, which is a fantastic machine.
What I am tryong to do is hook the Oppo up to my TX-NR 905 via HDMI in order to have the real lossless audio. That however does not seem to work.
As of now I do not have an HDMI TV set yet, the HDMI monitor out is turned off.

The audio workd fine over coax digital from the Oppo however the TX-NR 905 does not seem to recognise any HDMI signal from the Oppo. i have no idea why. I checked whether there was any HDMI signal coming out of the Oppo by hooking up my Dell U2707 computer display and that works fine.

I am relatively clueless, any advice is more than welcome.

Thanks from Luxembourg.

Success!
I managed to get the TX-NR905 to play the audio from the Oppo ober HDMI, the bad thing is, I do not know what made it to work.
Only thing is that I noticed is that the audio is cut off when I am in the Onkyo setup menu, which is not really helping.
Edited by Sirius2003 - 3/17/13 at 5:37am

I just got my Panasonic AT6000 projector. I have the 905 connected to it with HDMI and I get OSD fine from the receiver, but I can'tt get video from HDMI inputs on the amp to display on the projector. I got the Wii U to work for a while.. turned it off and on and can not get the video on again. Tried a PS3 and same thing, sound works fine, but projector not displaying video. What can the problem be???

Nintendo Wii U HDMI to projector... video works perfect.
Nintendo Wii U HDMI to 905.. sound works, but no video(tried chancing all HDMI settings, sub, main etc.). Wii U popped up for a while, turned it off and on and haven't gotten video since. When it was workin the dark colors had a lot of video noise in them.
905 to projector. OSD and menus appear fine.

It looks like a HDMI handshake issue. Onkyos are very finicky when it comes to proper HDCP handshakes. Many times changing the sequence on which you turn on your devices corrects the issue. I would try turning on the projector first, then the AVR and finally the source. If it does not work, try changing the order; give a few seconds until you discover what is the best sequence for your gear.
For instance I recall my 905 shutting the CD audio on my Oppo on 10 second intervals for a 1 second when I turned off my projector while listening to music. It sounds stupid, but my projector mas part of the HDCP chain and it just confused the AVR. HDCP sucks, and it has always hurt more the consumers than the actual piracy it was meant to prevent.

Thanks! I´ll try it all out tomorrow.

What could be causing the added noise to the picture from the 905. If it's a dark image.. it has extreme noise to it.

Tried source, 905 then projector with no luck. I´ll try projector, amp and source too. Only thing left to try is change out the Wii U HDMI cable.. if that doesn't work I´ll have to get a new receiver! I´m never getting an Onkyo again..1500$ out the window!! Any recomendations.

Also, try another video monitor as well... if you have flat panel or anything you can connect to the same output going to your projector this could serve well in discarding the cable going from your avr to your PJ.

I ditched my Onkyo 905 for a Marantz. To be fair with the Onkyo, the 905 was a bit ahead of its time as far as HDMI 1.3 support. A lot of people complained about HDCP issues... I had a problem with my Mac Mini, but it was not such a big deal really for me.
What was a shame was that Onkyo dropped the support for the 905 fairly quick in my opinion. A lot of the issues could have been resolved with newer firmware. It is one thing I prefer on the Marantz... they seem to be better at supporting their products over time.
One other bad thing about the 905 was the amount of heat generated by the unit. It was like a furnace... it needed to be extremely well ventilated due to type of internal amplifiers used in the unit.
I truly don't recommend any brand. They all have good and bad things. Stick to what works for you from a price-quality-support combination.

I´m running firmware 1.07.. I can't see anything about the .08 or .09 changing handshake issues. Doesn't matter really as I´ve tried everything I can think of to update the firmware, but the "updater" just doesn't do anything.